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sapphire
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« on: July 07, 2004, 06:59:09 PM »

For the site "reelhealthy.com" i am trying to post some new text to the site, under about reel healthy but it doesn't seem to appear after I "put" it on the site. I use SmartFTP for transferring.
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« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2004, 07:13:00 PM »

Is it not appearing when you look via FTP or when you look via web browser?

If the latter, hit your "REFRESH/RELOAD" button.

If the former, go to cPanel and look in "File Manager" and see if when you upload from there, the new files take effect.
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« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2004, 10:17:49 PM »

Code:
<a href="file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator.CHRIS-HOME/My%20Documents/Unnamed%20Site%201/Products%20and%20Services">


This is probably not your point but this among with another link refrences a file on your local computer or in this case the users local computer.  You need to refrence files on your server for instance
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<a href="http://reelhealthy.com/Products and Services/>

I'm just pointing this out because all of your links except for the mailto: links are dead.

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« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2004, 10:21:30 PM »

Oh yah do know that since LP has Linux servers all files are case-sensitive.
Which means
Code:
ProDucTs/index.html

is different from
Code:
products/index.html

On your site you have mixed case files that you may want to make all lower-case.

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« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2004, 10:41:18 PM »

Ahh, I didn't even access the site to look at the source code.  Good spot, abbaseball92  Thumbs Up
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« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2004, 07:08:56 AM »

it does not appear in the browser.  I understand that the font is cast sensitive.
I will have to upload the files in the mgr..forgot to do that!
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« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2004, 05:45:57 PM »

OK...Things are not going right for me.  On my site "Reel Healthy" I am not having any luck updating the site..I don't know what I am doing wrong~
I am using dreamweaver, do my changes in my folders, "put" the stuff on the server, open smartftp, select the files, overwrite them after selecting them and still, to no avail, no luck.
Please someone help me...as I look at the index file to edit it, it shows all my files on the C: with a bunch of text to follow it, as it origin on my hard drive.
Also, using dreamweaver, how do I align the links so that I have three rows of two links?
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« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2004, 12:44:23 AM »

If you are using dreamweaver to publish updates, what exactly are you doing with SmartFTP ?

If dreamweaver is "put"'ing stuff onto the server, there should be no need to FTP it.  Its there

Do you have a site profile properly setup ?  Because the way these links are looking, it simply looks like you are opening them linking to some files on your drive, and then uploading it, expecting it to work.

The only reason I could think for the links to be messed up is an incorrectly setup site profile or something of that nature. Also I noticed from the links, that the paths being linked to also have directory names with spaces in them. This is generally not a good idea, as it can be confusing sometimes to look at, even for the original coder.  an underscore would work better probably.




If you want three rows of two links, you have to make a table, and then place the links into table cells.
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« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2004, 01:01:47 AM »

Here are some general tips to possibily help you sort out the problem.

First and foremost get an organized directory structure.
If you want to keep your site on your C drive. Ok.

Make a directory at the base of the drive  C:\
For examples sake we will call it " website  "

Now you have your stuff stored in  C:\website

Any content you want linked to the site should be at LEAST inside that folder and not outside of it.  

Here is an example

Code:

 C:\website
-------------------\pics
--------------------\downloads


That is a basic directory structure.

The next step is to decide where you are going to keep all your main files.  You usually want to keep them in the base directory of  C:\website, and keep any pictures in  c:\website\pics

So your site tree might then look like this

Code:


C:\website
--------------------\pics
                         .............logo.jpg

-------------------- \downloads
--------------index.html
--------------faq.html
--------------products_and_services.html
---------------faq.html
---------------hooks_and_notes.html


The core of your site is in the main directory, and "logo.jpg" is stored inside "pics".


The next step is to define a proper site profile in Dreamweaver.  I use Dreamweave MX, so I kind of forget how older version may look. But you want to do the following.

Setup the site name for the profile etc.
Set up the site address  -  http://www.reelhealthy.com
Set the default directory for the site -  c:\website
Set the default pics directory, if desired but not necesarry. in this case - c:\website\pics

Setup your remote info. This means your FTP username and password,  as well as the site FTP address so you can connect.    ftp.reelhealthy.com

set your host directory in remote info to  /public_html/

Then test youre remote connection settings.


If everything is working correctly you should be able to connect to the site.


The next step is once you get ALL the files you want into the proper directory for your site, make them all lowercase, including your file extensions.  When you refference anything make it lowercase. Unless you specifically want different letter cases on certain filenames or extentions, and you will remember how to call them properly.

Now edit your site from within dreamweaver as normal, and save all your changes.  When you are ready to publish to your site.   Hit the connect button so Dreamweaver connects to your site.

Dreamweavers internal file manager has a synchronize function.  If you right click on the file browsing area, the option should be on the pop-up menu (if not, find the synchronize option).  When you are ready to synchronize and have activated the option you will see a small popup for the synchronize function. Select   "Entire Site" under the first drop-down menu,  then under the Direction drop-down, select "put newer files to remote"

This will upload all the files in your site profile to the web account on Lunarpages.  It may also ask you to "include dependant files?"  I always check  "don't ask me again" and then click no - as if you always do a full synchronize, it won't matter.  

I am sorry if any of this has confused you, but I'm just trying to help you make sure you are on the right track to proper site management.  If you get the above info working out for you, I suggest before doing a syncrhonize to publish new updates, you clear out your web space to clean up any old, unused, or junk files you may have leftover from your old managing ways.

Of course, you should go over all those files before deleting them, to make sure you want to keep them, and then store them locally in your web sites folder.

If you manage your files this way and publish from within dreamweaver with the synchronize function, all your links will be handled properly and refferenced correctly.
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« Reply #9 on: September 18, 2004, 12:23:54 PM »

On my site, reelhealthy.com, I have done extra work I think...the site that is out there right now is done in basic html coding, not through DW. However, I do have DW installed and want to redo the site using DW.  I have the site ready to go out onto the server, and have "put" it, but the site itself is not reflecting my updates, like colors, emails, etc.

anyone out there who can help, go for it!
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« Reply #10 on: September 18, 2004, 12:24:40 PM »

thanks
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« Reply #11 on: September 18, 2004, 12:29:38 PM »

Could you describe specific problems? We can't read your mind to know what updates you made so we don't know what to look for.

One error that jumps out is the first image. The code says it's supposed to be here: http://reelhealthy.com/fishing.jpg but it is not there.

Also, in the future, please create a clickable link to your site to make it easier for people to access your site. You just need to make sure it looks like this http://reelhealthy.com/

Thanks. Smile
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« Reply #12 on: September 18, 2004, 12:32:47 PM »

Examples of changes..the background color should be brown, not blue, the contact link should be rodnreel44@yahoo.com, the links should be the same font.

I have made changes using DW, put the updated files onto the server at LP but when I check out the site reelhealthy.com, it does not show any of my changes.  I view the source and see that the coding is all the work that I originally  did in notepad.  Does this help.
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« Reply #13 on: September 18, 2004, 12:33:25 PM »

and my fishing rod is not showing either! argh...!!!
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« Reply #14 on: September 18, 2004, 12:35:28 PM »

Are you sure you're uploading files into public_html folder?
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