uploading pages problems

[NeonWarrior]

ive managed to get dreamweaver working in a way that suits me well, and ive made a test page and ive uploaded using its FTP function, and ive set the page as my homepage BUT it says it isnt found, do i have to do anything like upload the page from the cp on here???

its giving me the 404 error saying the page doesnt exist, ive uploaded to the public html folder but nothings happening, and i set it as the homepage with dreamweaver but i still get the 404 error

i went into the file manager with the cp and opened the file from there and it STILL tells me the page doesnt exist!!!

how do i make that page work?!

 

[Corey]

Can you link to the error?

-Corey

 

[NeonWarrior]

its just a 404 error telling me the page doesnt exist in the actual browser, and i get the option to go to my homepage (which im trying to access anyway) and it takes me to the index.html page, but if you like i can still link you

http://gccc.exofire.net/hompage.html

 

[Axe_Swipe]

Did you name it homepage.html? or is that the name of the page that x10 is loading?

The page should be named index.html (if it isn't already).

 

[NeonWarrior]

yeah i named it hompage.html, should i delete the index page and call my hompage index.html?

 

[Corey]

Yes

 

[NeonWarrior]

well...the page is displaying, but its all wrong!

its nothing like what o have in dreamweaver! im getting no colour or anything, its not even the corrct page! theres so many folders and sub folders i dont know whats what! is there a way i can reset the whole domain to its defaults or somthing? i dont know what folders i need and what i dont!

 

[Derek]

Did you add css?

 

[Axe_Swipe]

@Derek: Viewing the source, there doesn't appear to be any calls to a .css file. It seems to be a simple html template.

@NeonWarrior: It looks like you have absolute paths defined. You want relative paths.

i.e., the path for you image fie in your index.html on line 17 looks like this right now:

<td width="250" height="138"><img src="file:///C|/Documents and Settings/HP_Owner/My Documents/Fantasy World Softwares/Library/Images/BCU logo.JPG" width="250" height="170" align="top" /></td>

So currently, it is pointing to a image file located on your hard drive and not on the web server.

You want it to read something like this:

<td width="250" height="138"><img src="/images/BCU logo.JPG" width="250" height="170" align="top" /></td>

In this case "/images/" is a sub-folder of the root /public_html/ folder.

Remember, all of the files and folders on your local directory in dreamweaver should be layed out exactly as they are going to be on the web server whenever possible.

So another example: my local folder in dreamweaver is called \AS3D\. This is my root folder wich corresponds to the /public_html/ folder on the server. Everything that I upload to the server resides in the \AS3D\ folder or sub-folders within. All links in my pages are relative to this root ( / ) folder so that when I upload my files, they remain in that same relative format. At no time does or should the phrase "C:\" or "C|/" appear in any of your pages html code.

This way if I wanted too, I could delete everything in the /public_html. folder (not that I generally would mind you), then highlight everything in the local \AS3D\ folder (not the folder itself though) and hit "Put" and Dreamweaver would make the ftp connection and upload everything to the correct places.

I hope I explained this well enough and that it helps.

 

[NeonWarrior]

ok so now i understand the files need to be on the server, but it still doesnt explain why the background isnt blank and everything is out of line, i wanted it all central to the page and not to the left, im just finding it hard to makethis work since im new to the whole website stuff, i feel like im begining to become a nuisence!

EDIT:

ok ive tried what you said, i linked the logo to /public_html/images/BCU logo.jpg but its not appearing on the site...

on the plus side i have colours in the tables, but how do i colour the actual pages? bear in mind i know nothing of CSS coding and HTML and anyother coding, this is how new i am!

 

[alfren]

there's an error in your code

find this line:

<td width="250" height="138"><img src="/public_html/images/BCU logo.jpg" width="250" height="170" align="top" />

You should remove public_html in that line

so it will be like this:

<td width="250" height="138"><img src=images/BCU%20logo.JPG" width="250" height="170" align="top" />


Note: Do not include the public_html in your every code.

well i hope it helps....

 

[NeonWarrior]

my problems are solved, i now have a page that i can work with and a friend that can answer all my problems on msn (and i didnt even know he knew this much about HTML!)

thank you for all your help guys, my site will be fully functioning ASAP

 

[Axe_Swipe]

ok so now i understand the files need to be on the server, but it still doesnt explain why the background isnt blank and everything is out of line, i wanted it all central to the page and not to the left, im just finding it hard to makethis work since im new to the whole website stuff, i feel like im begining to become a nuisence!

EDIT:

ok ive tried what you said, i linked the logo to /public_html/images/BCU logo.jpg but its not appearing on the site...

on the plus side i have colours in the tables, but how do i colour the actual pages? bear in mind i know nothing of CSS coding and HTML and anyother coding, this is how new i am!

Take a look at line 15 of your source:

<table width="843" height="893" border="2" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#3300CC">

the bgcolor= statement is where you define the background color, which is currently set to a shade of blue. Now since you are using Dreamweaver, you can click on "Modify --> Page Properties" and there is a little box that shows the current background color that you can click on to bring up the color pallette and change it. This is also where you can define the colors of your text and text hyperlinks.

Also remember that Dreamweaver has an exhaustive help system which includes "Getting Started", a "Dreamweaver Tutorial", etc.

Also, there is a site called "Lissa Explains it All"

While this site is written for kids and looks very girlish, don't let it fool you. It is a perfect place for beginning website creators to visit to learn about html and web design and I highly recommend it becasue even though Dreamweaver will do a lot of the work for you, you should still have a basic understanding of html. Just click on the "html help" link and then click on the "html" link to get started there.

There also sections for css, frames, tables, javascript, etc when you're ready to delve into those topics.