Bought domain name and hosting, why is uploading with dreamweaver not working?

[legocitytruck]

I'm in the process of making a family website. I recently purchased a domain name and hosting from GoDaddy. I've created some content with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 and I'd like to upload it.

In Dreamweaver I've gone to site => manage sites => edit

Once there I've clicked on the advanced tab. In remote info, what is the proper access to select for using a GoDaddy webhosting?

Once I have selected n access type, what do I plug into FTP host and host directory? plugging in the URL for both doesn't seem to work.

Finally, do I select passive FTP, IPv6 transfer mode, firewall, or secure ftp? Do I need to adjust the firewall settings or the server compatibility?

Thank you in advance for any help that you can give.

 

[Broheim]

your first mistake was using dreamweaver...

just get a real ftp client like filezilla.

 

[M0RPH]

Nothing wrong with uploading through Dreameaver. Check Godaddy's help files here:
http://community.godaddy.com/help/?hs=dreamweaver
Look at the 1st and 4th results there.

Use passive ftp. Don't check any of the other stuff.
Ftp host should have been given to you by Godaddy.
Directory is the only tricky thing, try one of these:

1) leave it blank
2) /
3) /username (your Godaddy username)

 

[legocitytruck]

Unfortunately, I've set up everything in dreamweaver CS3 and it uploads error free but the website I've created hasn't shown at the URL for a few days. Consequently I'm attempting to try filezilla.

When starting filezilla, in "connect to server" dialog box, what are they looking for to be pu into "server address" and "port"

 

[legocitytruck]

Is the "absolute hosting path" useful in anyway?

 

[rasczak]

Unfortunately, I've set up everything in dreamweaver CS3 and it uploads error free but the website I've created hasn't shown at the URL for a few days. Consequently I'm attempting to try filezilla.

When starting filezilla, in "connect to server" dialog box, what are they looking for to be pu into "server address" and "port"

your IP address and port number. FTP ports are normally port 21

 

[legocitytruck]

Thank you, that worked.

I have established a connection with FileZilla. When I type the HTML source code in Microsoft Word 2007 and upload, the website displays the code I typed and not what the code means.

Additionally, if I drag and drop an image into an html website created in Word 2007 named index.html and I drag and drop it along with the image itself into the root directory in FileZilla and upload, the website will display the edge of the picture but not the picture itself. How do I get the website to show the picture?

 

[Scorpeo]

Microsoft Word adds all sorts of code, so the web browsers think the source code you typed is the content you want showed. Try opening that file in Notepad and you'll see all of the other stuff that MS Word adds. If you are just typing the source code and not using a WYSIWYG editor, just use notepad instead.

You need to type the html code to show the image. Drag and drop is easy, but again, Word adds stuff. Try opening it up in Notepad and cleaning up all of the junk.

 

[legocitytruck]

Thanks a lot, is there a maximum size image that can be referenced with HTML?

When setting up the directories on the ftp server for an index page and images on the page, should they be in the same folder? Do you keep links to other pages that are referenced in the index page also in the same folder?

 

[legocitytruck]

What program can be used to write html? When opening index.html to clean out the garbage that word added, it will not let me save the changes to the file index.html.t

 

[kamikazekyle]

Firstly, I'd avoid using Word for designing webpages. It likes to do a bunch of weird things with supporting CSS, etc, that's really unnecessary. Plus, all that extra code is not only unnecessary but will really reduce the compliancy of the web page.

HTML files are all plain text files. You can use Notepad to edit the files directly, or any other number of text editors. Some, such as Notepad++, contain code highlighting to make editing easier. Dreamweaver also has a code view that serves the same purpose as editing using a text editor. If you *really* wanna stick with WYSIWYG editors, I'd roll with Dreamweaver.

I'd recommend restarting your project from scratch utilizing proper HTML code that's hand written. You can find plenty of information on basic HTML at w3schools.com. Oh, and there is no limit for an image in size -- HTML just tells the browser to display the image and how it should be displayed, it's up to the browser to actually do the grunt work.

As a side tip, if using plain ol' notepad, encase your file name in double quotes ("); IE: "index.html" This will force the proper file extension and prevent Notepad from adding the .txt extension. Most dedicated or HTML-aware editing applications will automatically tag on the proper extension.

 

[legocitytruck]

Thank you very much, these tips have been incredibly helpful.

I have about 10 pages all of which are linked to the index page and each other and all have multiple images. When dragging and dropping these on the server through filezilla, is there any sort of file directory system that can be used to make it easier for me to manage things, or are all of the page html files and the images dropped in one folder on the server?

 

[kamikazekyle]

You can use as many folders as you want, so long as your anchors, links, etc are all udpated to reflect such. Use relative vice aboslute paths in your code.

<a href="images/image.jpg" /><img src="thumbnails/thumbnail.jpg" /></a>

The above code displays a thumbnail image, and has a link to a full sized image.

This way if your domain name changes or you move the entire site to a deeper structure, you won't have to redo a bunch of links and references. Just try to make sure that you think about the folder names before you go and start coding them into your pages. Even though search and replace is fast, if you make a change to a folder name/structure later on it can be a pain to go through all your source pages and update to reflect the new link.

Head to that w3schools link I mentioned and go over their HTML section. It's good at explaining basic HTML, pretty much all the sections have live "try it" components so you can see how the code works, make changes, and see how those changes affect the end result.

 

[legocitytruck]

Thank you very much for your help.

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