Alk Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Okay, I'm a newb when it comes to this kind of thing. As in this is the first website I have ever made hence the first one I've ever tried to publish. Anyway, I bought the domain and a year's worth of hosting from godaddy. I used FrontPage (mock me if you must) to create the website and when I tried to publish it it said it had to be uploaded to an ftp server or something like that. So I did that but now have no idea how to get it over to my actual website address. You can try to pick up from where I'm at now but I think there would be a better chance at success if you tried to start at the beginning and tell me what I should have done. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joebabyny Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Okay, I'm a newb when it comes to this kind of thing. As in this is the first website I have ever made hence the first one I've ever tried to publish. Anyway, I bought the domain and a year's worth of hosting from godaddy. I used FrontPage (mock me if you must) to create the website and when I tried to publish it it said it had to be uploaded to an ftp server or something like that. So I did that but now have no idea how to get it over to my actual website address. You can try to pick up from where I'm at now but I think there would be a better chance at success if you tried to start at the beginning and tell me what I should have done. Thanks in advance. ok, so i assume you uploaded it by ftp to your server which is set up with your domain on it. Now you need to point the domain to the server. I would think since you bought the domain and hosting all from godaddy at once it would do this for you though. What happens when you enter the url? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alk Posted March 25, 2009 Author Share Posted March 25, 2009 ok, so i assume you uploaded it by ftp to your server which is set up with your domain on it. Now you need to point the domain to the server. I would think since you bought the domain and hosting all from godaddy at once it would do this for you though. What happens when you enter the url? It just comes up with the godaddy "This Web site coming soon" page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joebabyny Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 It just comes up with the godaddy "This Web site coming soon" page. when you log in with the ftp manager, you see your domain sitting there as a folder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joebabyny Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 is there a setting on the godaddy control panel to point the site at a coming soon page or to your homepage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alk Posted March 25, 2009 Author Share Posted March 25, 2009 is there a setting on the godaddy control panel to point the site at a coming soon page or to your homepage? I haven't seen anything. I'll have to take a closer look tonight I guess. Are you familiar at all with godaddy? If so where exactly would I look? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joebabyny Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 I haven't seen anything. I'll have to take a closer look tonight I guess. Are you familiar at all with godaddy? If so where exactly would I look? I am not familiar with godaddy hosting, but take a look at this pdf, should get you going https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/pdf/Hosting.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishooked Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 This is good info...since I'll be transferring my ****ty domain I bought over to godaddy.com as well. It figures after I purchased one the next day I thought of an even better one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alk Posted March 26, 2009 Author Share Posted March 26, 2009 Wow, I think I figured out what the problem was all along. Apparantly you have to name your front page "index". I did that and published it again and things have started working. I still have to do some tweaking on it but it's on it's way. Thanks for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECURB Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Wow, I think I figured out what the problem was all along. Apparantly you have to name your front page "index". I did that and published it again and things have started working. I still have to do some tweaking on it but it's on it's way. Thanks for the help. Beat me to it... make sure you have an index.html in the main folder... if you do not want to name it that for some reason... make a dummy page and forward it to your real page... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montreal Jet Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 So when is www.bradyisahomo.com going to be up and running? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishooked Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 So when is www.bradyisahomo.com going to be up and running? LMAO, you totally beat me to it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alk Posted March 26, 2009 Author Share Posted March 26, 2009 Well, it's finally up and running. I know it's pretty bare bones and I'm kinda hesitant to even show it to you guys but what the hell. If you have any suggestions, throw them out there. www.olstuga.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joebabyny Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Wow, I think I figured out what the problem was all along. Apparantly you have to name your front page "index". I did that and published it again and things have started working. I still have to do some tweaking on it but it's on it's way. Thanks for the help. odd, frontpage didn't do that for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alk Posted March 26, 2009 Author Share Posted March 26, 2009 odd, frontpage didn't do that for you? It may have originally and I just changed the name. I don't know for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joebabyny Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Well, it's finally up and running. I know it's pretty bare bones and I'm kinda hesitant to even show it to you guys but what the hell. If you have any suggestions, throw them out there. www.olstuga.com dude, WTF, you have a 2.4 MB image as your home page?? That is a lot of load time and wasted bandwidth right there. Gimme a minute..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alk Posted March 26, 2009 Author Share Posted March 26, 2009 dude, WTF, you have a 2.4 MB image as your home page?? That is a lot of load time and wasted bandwidth right there. Gimme a minute..... Yeah, I noticed that it loads slow. What do I need to do to change that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joebabyny Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 It may have originally and I just changed the name. I don't know for sure. you must have, that is why i didn't even think to mention it as an issue. Here is a copy of that home page image at a normal file size. and one that is cropped to get rid of all the sidewalk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alk Posted March 26, 2009 Author Share Posted March 26, 2009 you must have, that is why i didn't even think to mention it as an issue. Here is a copy of that home page image at a normal file size. and one that is cropped to get rid of all the sidewalk. What did you do to change the size of the file so much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joebabyny Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 What did you do to change the size of the file so much? I used photoshop, which you probably don't have. I am sure there are a number of cheap windoze programs to resize photos, or i would think its cheaper brother, photoshop elements, would give you a bunch of good tools if you play with images and graphics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alk Posted March 26, 2009 Author Share Posted March 26, 2009 I used photoshop, which you probably don't have. I am sure there are a number of cheap windoze programs to resize photos, or i would think its cheaper brother, photoshop elements, would give you a bunch of good tools if you play with images and graphics. No I have a full blown copy of Photoshop. I actually used Photoshop to to shrink the size of that photo to begin with. Did you change the resolution some too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joebabyny Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 No I have a full blown copy of Photoshop. I actually used Photoshop to to shrink the size of that photo to begin with. Did you change the resolution some too? ok, i am on a mac but it is generally the same first go to image/image size, make sure you have scale styles, constrain proportions, and resample image checked, then enter a smaller width and height in pixels. For document size it should be 72 resolution for a computer monitor, but i think i may have forgot to do that for yours. then once you do that.. go to file/save for web. This is where you compress the file. For photos i usually use jpeg and medium, but you can play with the settings and see their effects on the picture and the resulting file size so you can fine tune it, but medium is usually ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alk Posted March 26, 2009 Author Share Posted March 26, 2009 ok, i am on a mac but it is generally the same first go to image/image size, make sure you have scale styles, constrain proportions, and resample image checked, then enter a smaller width and height in pixels. For document size it should be 72 resolution for a computer monitor, but i think i may have forgot to do that for yours. then once you do that.. go to file/save for web. This is where you compress the file. For photos i usually use jpeg and medium, but you can play with the settings and see their effects on the picture and the resulting file size so you can fine tune it, but medium is usually ok. Cool, thanks for the help. I don't know if you had a chance to go through the whole site or not but if you did, did you notice anything else that I should consider changing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 I don't know if you had a chance to go through the whole site or not but if you did, did you notice anything else that I should consider changing? It needs some hot chicks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECURB Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 If you have a newer version of photoshop just use the "save for web" option... it will optimize it well as whatever file type you want... Put return links to the home page on the other pages so people dont have to use the back button... sounds silly but it makes things more complete... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alk Posted March 26, 2009 Author Share Posted March 26, 2009 Put return links to the home page on the other pages so people dont have to use the back button... sounds silly but it makes things more complete... That was actually one of the things I was thinking about this afternoon when I was browsing through it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alk Posted March 26, 2009 Author Share Posted March 26, 2009 It needs some hot chicks. How about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishooked Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 ok, i am on a mac but it is generally the same first go to image/image size, make sure you have scale styles, constrain proportions, and resample image checked, then enter a smaller width and height in pixels. For document size it should be 72 resolution for a computer monitor, but i think i may have forgot to do that for yours. then once you do that.. go to file/save for web. This is where you compress the file. For photos i usually use jpeg and medium, but you can play with the settings and see their effects on the picture and the resulting file size so you can fine tune it, but medium is usually ok. You mean you're not going to yell at him for using yellow as a base color for all the pages? If it were me, I'd soften the edges around the picture on the home page, and then center it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alk Posted March 26, 2009 Author Share Posted March 26, 2009 You mean you're not going to yell at him for using yellow as a base color for all the pages? If it were me, I'd soften the edges around the picture on the home page, and then center it. What's wrong with the yellow? I'm personally not a big fan either but we live in a Swedish town and blue and yellow seem to be the color around here so I went with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishooked Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 What's wrong with the yellow? I'm personally not a big fan either but we live in a Swedish town and blue and yellow seem to be the color around here so I went with it. Use a pic of the swedish bikini team instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alk Posted March 30, 2009 Author Share Posted March 30, 2009 Okay, so I got everything working except for the guestbook. No matter what I try I can't get it to work. I used the free one that godaddy provides and it doesn't work. Then I made my own with FrontPage. It wouldn't work. It said I needed to add FrontPage extensions which I did but still nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joebabyny Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Okay, so I got everything working except for the guestbook. No matter what I try I can't get it to work. I used the free one that godaddy provides and it doesn't work. Then I made my own with FrontPage. It wouldn't work. It said I needed to add FrontPage extensions which I did but still nothing. you need to have the extensions turned on on your server at godaddy. i think there is a way to do it from the control panel when you log into your hosting account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joebabyny Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 You mean you're not going to yell at him for using yellow as a base color for all the pages?....... So lemme get this straight, you think I was yelling at you about your page? So a guy comes on here and asks for opinions and advice and when someone takes the time to look at his site and offer his assistance he gets told he was yelling at him? I even offered to help you redo your lure buttons. Sheesh. Next time if your feelings are going to get hurt maybe don't ask for help or advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alk Posted March 30, 2009 Author Share Posted March 30, 2009 you need to have the extensions turned on on your server at godaddy. i think there is a way to do it from the control panel when you log into your hosting account. As far as I can tell installing them is the same thing as activating them. At least that's the only thing I can see as far as FrontPage extensions go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joebabyny Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 As far as I can tell installing them is the same thing as activating them. At least that's the only thing I can see as far as FrontPage extensions go. Are you uploading your site to the server from right within frontpage or are you uploading the files from an ftp client? I believe you are not supposed to use ftp if you are using the frontpage extensions. WTF are you even using frontpage, they stopped making this pos software like 3 years ago didn't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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