Trouble uploading site

[Shabdo]

This is my first time creating a website and I am very unfamiliar with....pretty much everything. I created a basic website on iweb. I published the website to a folder. In that folder is index.html, a folder named images, site.html, and a folder entitled site_files. I've been playing around with the file manager in cpanel and ive been trying to upload each file. I have no idea which folders to upload them to or where things should go. I tried uploading everything to the public_html folder, but then when i view my site all the images are broken and nothing really shows up. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Just trying to learn all this stuff.

 

[chris218]

its probably easier to use FTP for a start. I good ftp client (free) is Smart FTP

Did you put the images in the images folder? I am guessing that is where the site is expecting them.

 

[Shabdo]

i tried putting one of the images in the image folder to see if it would show up but it didnt work. Thanks for the tip about the ftp client. Ill give that a try

 

[Spartan Erik]

Maybe something is wrong with your code? Post it up in this thread, maybe you've got broken tags or something

 

[Shabdo]

I believe I've fixed the main issue. I placed all files in the www folder. That seemed to fix things as now my website shows up when I type in the url. I dont know why placing the image in the image folder did not work, but i fixed it by placing it in another folder and changing the tag to that folder.

I downloaded an ftp client which seems to be helping. I'm a little disappointed with iweb though. It seems very simplistic and I can't even edit the page source with it. What program do most of you use to create your websites?

 

[chris218]

I code them myself.

 

[jensen]

If you coded the page yourself, you can tell where browser where your images are placed so that it can be displayed properly.

Normally you would go to Cpanel and Click on File Manager. A new screen would pop-up and then you click on Public_html and put all your files there. In your case you just create a folder names images and place your images in there and another folder called site_file and load up the files into that folder and your site would work.

Since you have already placed all that into saperate folders, using FTP would be a better option since you just upload all with "drag and drop"

What's your site URL?

 

[jensen]

Please don't double post.
- Jacob

 

[boblake]

Trouble uploading site - got a few questions of my own

I use dreamweaver, but I'm kind of new so I find it makes it pretty easy as it has the design mode and then the script mode right there so you can see what's going on.

I know what you mean though, Shabdo, I was having the same problem. I'm just switching my website over to x10hosting as it was (and still is for a few more days) over on angelfire. I like the x10 hosting format a whole lot better so that is why I'm taking my site off angelfire and moving it here, but I'm also not used to all the folders. I can't say I'm exactly sure where to upload my files to.

EDIT
I did manage to figure it out though, that's why I edited my post and deleted the questions. It was a problem with my links, lol. Oh well, it's always something so simple that has me pulling my hair out trying to figure out why it isn't working. Anyway, it is indeed the www folder which is the correct upload target. anyway, take care all.

 

[Zenax]

I reccommend that you look at a few websites that teach you HTML etc. I wrote a tutorial on this forum! Just click the link in my sig and look at post number 1 and post number 4 as these contain the tutorial!

Regards,
Zenax