[Sector9]

Hello, my friend was helping me design a website (I designed it in photoshop he then converted it into html and uploaded is on his testing page)

he has since left the country for a conference, leaving me with a coursework deadline on friday and very little help!!

I have a domain, I have downloaded filezilla and I have dreamweaver.

I need to download the website and contents (it uses css, html) and upload to mine (and try and contine editing)

Can anyone tell me how to do this

URGENT!

thank you!!

[davep]

er if it's course work shouldn't you know how to do this? what have they been teaching you on this course? don't you know how to use google?

come clean and tell your course place that you haven't got a clue and you ain't gonna learn by friday. i don't mind helping anyone but i'm not going to do someone else's course work for them.

talk with your tutors and explain to them

alternatively email your friend and at least get the ftp details and come back with more details of what you can do and what you can't, and what you need to do.

[Sector9]

davep, on 11 March 2010 - 11:43 AM, said:

er if it's course work shouldn't you know how to do this? what have they been teaching you on this course? don't you know how to use google?

come clean and tell your course place that you haven't got a clue and you ain't gonna learn by friday. i don't mind helping anyone but i'm not going to do someone else's course work for them.

talk with your tutors and explain to them

alternatively email your friend and at least get the ftp details and come back with more details of what you can do and what you can't, and what you need to do.

Coursework was create a website - I did this on photoshop - create template looks good, change middle section as the contents.

they then said it needed to work, and they have no knowledge of how to use html, so not sure what i am meant to do.

everyone else is using wix (a free flash designer) but I said that was unimaginative - and now i might loose marks. I dont want some one to do the coursework for me - as I am just as interested in learning about this, I just need some help to actually learn how to!

he's ona plane to america... no way of contacting him

and I do know how to use google - I've been on it for 3 hours trying to do it, less of the patronising please

[Wickham]

If it's just a simple html file, css file and images you can download them with View Source and save them (use Firefox right-click view Page Info to save the images).

You need the username and password for the hosting service. Use ftp://yourdomain.com/ in the browser address bar and follow menus depending on which ftp program you are using (see below re IE).

You then need a ftp program (IE has a free one) with which you can upload edited files (or download the original files first). See
http://www.wickham43...ice.php#hosting
for general info.

[mrsminkie]

You have the tools to be able to do it. Do you have ANY of the html pages or does your friend have them all? Can he not email them to you?

To get this right - you need to convert your photoshop template into HTML and CSS and upload them to your domain?

EDIT: Just re-read your message.

You should be able to just copy and paste the information from your friends domain. What is the domain? Can you post a link to the site and your pages?

[Sector9]

Wickham, on 11 March 2010 - 11:49 AM, said:

If it's just a simple html file, css file and images you can download them with View Source and save them (use Firefox right-click view Page Info to save the images).

You need the username and password for the hosting service. Use ftp://yourdomain.com/ in the browser address bar and follow menus depending on which ftp program you are using (see below re IE).

You then need a ftp program (IE has a free one) with which you can uploaded edited files or download the original files. See
http://www.wickham43...ice.php#hosting
for general info.

Thanks for that, I've downloaded saved and tried to edit (probably cery badlu) and got it on my website, however it has lost all the page style.

saoirsechristopherson.co.uk

[Sector9]

his is testing.digital-results.com/saoirse

[HogIT]

Your problems appear to lie in the paths to external javascript and files.

<script src="file:///C|/Users/user1/Documents/digital-results/testing.digital-results.com/box/jquery.js" tppabs="http://saoirsechristopherson.co.uk/box/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="file:///C|/Users/user1/Documents/digital-results/testing.digital-results.com/box/png.js" tppabs="http://saoirsechristopherson.co.uk/box/png.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="file:///C|/Users/user1/Documents/digital-results/testing.digital-results.com/box/common.js" tppabs="http://saoirsechristopherson.co.uk/box/common.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="file:///C|/Users/user1/Documents/digital-results/testing.digital-results.com/saoirse/js.js" tppabs="http://saoirsechristopherson.co.uk/saoirse/js.js" type="text/javascript"></script>


I suspect this was caused by auto updating links in dreamweaver.

The originals were:-

<script src="http://testing.digital-results.com/box/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://testing.digital-results.com/box/png.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://testing.digital-results.com/box/common.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://testing.digital-results.com/saoirse/js.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Basically the code is expecting the external files to be held in the folder named "box" and "saoirse".

[mrsminkie]

Ok, on the testing page, a doc type hasn't been stipulated. You need to open a new document in dreamweaver, I'm guessing XHTML (although some of your code needs some tweaks e.g. <br/> to <br />) and then copy and paste the code into that.

Then you'll need to open a new css document and copy and paste the CSS code in there - make sure you leave the top 2 lines in. Save the css file with the same title as you have in your html document. Once that's done, you'll need the ftp details for your domain, and then you'll be able to upload.

Does that make sense?

[Sector9]

mrsminkie, on 11 March 2010 - 12:04 PM, said:

Ok, on the testing page, a doc type hasn't been stipulated. You need to open a new document in dreamweaver, I'm guessing XHTML (although some of your code needs some tweaks e.g. <br/> to <br />) and then copy and paste the code into that.

Then you'll need to open a new css document and copy and paste the CSS code in there - make sure you leave the top 2 lines in. Save the css file with the same title as you have in your html document. Once that's done, you'll need the ftp details for your domain, and then you'll be able to upload.

Does that make sense?

Thanks,

I've done that but it still appears the same?

The contents is all there, its just it has lost all the page style.

[mrsminkie]

Sector9, on 11 March 2010 - 12:13 PM, said:

Thanks,

I've done that but it still appears the same?

The contents is all there, its just it has lost all the page style.

Have you got your css files in a folder called CSS?

[Sector9]

I do now!

my folders might be a bit muddled?

[mrsminkie]

Sector9, on 11 March 2010 - 12:18 PM, said:

I do now!

my folders might be a bit muddled?

Your HTML document contains a link pointing to your CSS file. If it's wrong, it won't pick it up. The link is "http://saoirsechristopherson.co.uk/css/screen.css" but your CSS isn't there yet. To test everything, change the link to just read:


<link href="css/screen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

[Sector9]

ummmm..

I'm very very lost to be honest.

Is there anyway of restoring my folders through ftp to be default so i can start again.

Is it a problem that much of it still reads testing-digital-resutls, even though its now on my website?

thanks

[mrsminkie]

Sector9, on 11 March 2010 - 12:33 PM, said:

ummmm..

I'm very very lost to be honest.

Is there anyway of restoring my folders through ftp to be default so i can start again.

Is it a problem that much of it still reads testing-digital-resutls, even though its now on my website?

thanks

Every file that your site uses i.e. html/xhtml, css, js etc. need putting on your site and any link references need to be updated. So, yes.

[davep]

i still don't understand why they expect you to code this if you haven't been taught it. a question for your tutor, i think. it's good that you show initiative in trying to solve this but this is a problem that

a) you have too little time and too much to understand ( and i DONT mean that in a patronising way)
the assignment set is flawed if they expect you to code and edit without first being taught how to do it or given pointers/resources on how to do it.

i'm not saying this to be unhelpful, merely to point out the crux of the problem, which seems to be the people setting the coursework.