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geefree

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Building a Website, and templates
« on: January 30, 2009, 07:56:19 pm »
Anyone know how to transfer templates to a website, then fill them in with my own stuff.?

its a tough one to answer on here i know, i am back to square one again. and trying to build it myself from scratch. at the moment its blank. lol.

 ;)

Nathanael Jones

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Re: Building a Website, and templates
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2009, 07:59:17 pm »
You upload the blank template to the webspace with an FTP program,.. Filezilla is good and its free too.

Then you use your preferred editing software (I personally like dreamweaver) to modify the files in place,.. add your own text & images and instantly preview the results!

geefree

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Re: Building a Website, and templates
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2009, 08:06:01 pm »
Thanks Nathanal,

i meant my website is blank, i want to use free window cleaning templates and delete some things and add my own.... l

delete high rise buildings and cradles etc.

Thanks for the useful transferring info though.

i use dream host 

geefree

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Re: Building a Website, and templates
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2009, 08:38:11 pm »
just downloaded Filezilla ... now i need templates  ;D

Nathanael Jones

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Re: Building a Website, and templates
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2009, 08:38:57 pm »
It the dpanel of your hosting, click the FTP section and you should find the settings there,..

Chris B

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Re: Building a Website, and templates
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2009, 09:27:07 pm »
Dont forget to save your home page as index,

geefree

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Re: Building a Website, and templates
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2009, 12:06:50 pm »
cant find ftp in dpanel ???

br00ksy

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Re: Building a Website, and templates
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2009, 01:31:51 pm »
I would make my changes to the template site before uploading it, If you just want to change the text its fairly simple, but if you want to add or change pics then make sure you find the size of the images so that when you change them you dont alter the formatting of the page ( e.g  if the picture was larger it would maybe throw all the text underneath it instead of next to it.)

I would usually use Dreamweaver to edit it but there are some free ones like kompozer (www.kompozer.net) which are very similar to programs like word (wysiwyg editors).

Your web space provider will have the details of how to access your account to upload it, they dont all use dpanel some are manual upload settings which can be done through any modern browser you dont really need any other program just the webspace address, account name and password. The main page a browser looks at is index.htm so this will be the page people look at first so your main page will always be named this. 

Hope this helps