Needing lots of help!!

[guarino]

I recently created a site using Microsoft Publisher. I now know that was a HUGE mistake! I am unable to go in and edit.
Since then, with Deb's advice, I have downloaded LeechFTP and Arachnophilia. My problem now is I don't know how to use these things and I don't really understand how it all works. Can somebody please, please, please help me. The site is for Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Morris County and is located at http://www.bbbsmorriscounty.org.
Don't laugh!!

[Benson]

Most of the good Windows FTP clients are easy to use. Basically, you just set up your session to connect you to ftp.yourdomain.com, with your user name and password, and maybe a default directory. Then, once connected, you're presented with two windows-one represents your local file system (your c: drive, perhaps), and the remote, or your FutureQuest file directories. You can explore your FQ space by clicking one the folders...poke around some-it's hard to break! Notice that when you select the WWW folder, you see index.html, robots.txt, 404.html, etc. All the stuff that is normally visible to the public via the web is in this folder, or a subfolder, of www. You can usually drag & drop files from your system to the remote system and vice versa. Note also that some ftp prog's make it easy to see and change the permissions granted to individual files and directories. Usually, the default permissions are suitable for the actual web files (those ending with .htm, .html, .jpg, .gif etc). When you start doing more complex stuff with cgi scripts is when you have to start paying attention closely to permissions.

This is very generalized stuff, but maybe you can find your way through!


[This message has been edited by Benson (edited 03-16-99).]

[auteur]

I've not used either of the above programs but have used MS Publisher.

Did you have problems because you had to edit it all and it re-upload every page? I use it to create quick pages but always end-up tweaking the code afterwards.


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[LeafWind]

Hello Guarino,

I checked out your site, and I do like the overall idea and look, but I would definately strongly caution against making all that text an image.

1) it's too much work to edit if you need to change something

2) search engines won't see it so you won't get much of a ranking in their indexes

3) some people surf with their images turned off and won't see any content

4) images download much slower than text. Some say that 50% of visitors will leave a site after 20 seconds if they can't see the content by that time. Though FQ is fast, they can't control the speed of people's modems or of the connections between their computers and the FQ server.

If you're new to HTML coding, I would suggest you first start with basic format before putting images in a column down the side, etc. You can change to that format later when you've got the basics down and you're ready to learn more.

I've put together a basic HTML help reference at http://www.leafwind.com/FreeResources/HTML_help.html -- I'm still tweaking the look of it, but you're more than welcome to the information there.

I'm familiar with Arachnophila and have used LeechFTP, feel free to email me and I might be able to help you get started that way. My email is webdesign@leafwind.com.

If you're looking to get your site up and running right away, with a more difficult format, we would be able to take what you have there and create pages based on that look fairly quickly, as well as templates you can use to just fill in your text to expand the site yourselves. As we're a Canadian web design, the exchange rate already favours you when it comes to our pricing, and we also offer a discount to non-profit organizations. If you'd like to see if we can work something out, just toss us an email.

Best of luck!

Bekariso


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