Creating a webiste?

shortys94

Ok
I have used program which gives me templates for my website. and so on.

But I want to desgin my own stuff and transfer it onto my website from scratch with no templates just my own design.

Can anyone guide me through the steps of transferring images and text to a website, i have leech ftp and am not sure if this is what i should be using to transfer them as i do not know anything about transferring or converting files to be suitable.

so maybe you could help !!!

Sgtshaft

Spell check first

Stephen

Any FTP client will do the trick for actually transferring the files. Some webhosts (particularly the free ones) use web-based forms for uploading files instead of FTP. If you're talking about actually making the pages yourself, either learn HTML or use a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) tool such as Dreamweaver or Frontpage to create the layout.

stevenmu

Somewhere like HTML Goodies will teach you the HTML you need to create your own pages from scratch. Whatever host you use will more than likely have an FAQ on transferring the files and images up.

shortys94

i have dreamweaver, and leech ftp, so if i make pages on dreamweaver will the files be uploaded onto site straight away from leech ftp???
do i have to change files to a different type?

Velcrow

OK if you have dreamweaver 2004 or ealier versions you dont need an additional ftp programme - set up a site using the "wizard" and enter your ftp details then construct your pages - and away u go.

I dont want to be smart but if you have dreamweaver there are excellent help tutorial on getting started - have a look at these first and get back with any questions

stevenmu

shortys94 wrote:

i have dreamweaver, and leech ftp, so if i make pages on dreamweaver will the files be uploaded onto site straight away from leech ftp???
do i have to change files to a different type?

What do you mean by change files to a different type ? What type of files do you want to change, and what do you want to change them to ?

shortys94

i have dreamweaver mx 2004, i jsut want to at least get a picture or text onto my website, so if i put some text or a pic onto dreamweaver and put my site in the logon details and password, etc. dreamweaver will convert them and put them on my domain????

i mean by change files, like im a noob at this but something about .html
thanks for your help guys:)

maybe you could help me out with my router problem also:) its a dif thread anyway, please answer soon:)

irlrobins

as i said in your other thread.... RTFM!

Dreamweaver comes with tutorials. Follow them and you'll learn how to do what you require.

Also google for beginners guide to html for info on how webpages are constructed.

As Turk says "Learn by doing."

:-)

R

shortys94

ok thanks lol sorry whats RTFM again? lol sorry:)

aidan_walsh

"Read the Fusking Manual."

smeggle

Best School There is.

Or another way - visit web pages/file/save page as/open in notepad.
Minimise notepad/open the html document you saved/point at an image (If there displaying - they should)/select properties.

This will give you details of the image -something like an_imge.jpg

maximise your notepad with the html text (The one you minimised previously)/edit/find and put the image properties in the 'Find Search Option in Notepad'/ notepad will then find that name (Or should) - then look at how it's constructed - you should see something like this;

<img src="an_image.jpg" alt="An Image is displayed here" 
width="100" height="100" />

(Thats in xhtml btw)

Thats one of the ways I learnt - got web pages and broke em - them fixed em. took me about 2 months to get the basics of it and three years to learn it reasonably well (To xhtml/css W3C standards).

As others have said though Google is our friend

btw check out 'Zen Garden' for css design

angelofdeath

www.nvu.com, open source wysiwyg html editor, very much like frontpage in its capabilities, obviously can't touch dreamweaver but it's a good place to start, and it's free