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KompoZer - Web Publishing Question

by Brekat23
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Hey guys!! I'm throwin my first EVER website together....and they mean it when they say it's tough. So I'm probably going to be back and forth with this forum for a few days, asking all you awesome folk some random questions on things when I get stuck. So please, just bare with me and my ignorance till I learn how to do all this correctly. :p

First and foremost, I have a website template, and these are the respective template pages that I downloaded along with it.

index.html
about-us.html
projects.html
support.html
contact-us.html
privacy.html
and services.html

then it also came with a style.css sheet, as well as an 'images' folder.

Everything mentioned above ^^^ are all combined into one folder labeled 'xhtml'.

I am using KompoZer to upload these sites to my web hosting account...although I've been having a few problems getting it to look right after I do this. Whenever I go to open my site (local copy) everything is perfect...it looks perfect, I can click through to everything (well my links aren't correct yet but still). But when I publish it online...it loses half of its images, and I can't click through to anything. Any idea why this is, and what I can do to get this published online correctly?

Please...bare in mind...I'm not very technologically advanced when it comes to all this yet, so when explaining things to me....dumb them down, and make them easy for a newb to understand...I would reallllly appreciate that!! I won't take it offensively if your super explanatory...I kinda need that, or else I get more confused and more frustrated haha

Thanks again you guys!! Looking forward to gettin' this going with your help
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  • Profile picture of the author tbunch
    Kompozer is only "publishing" the .html files. You need to upload, by ftp or you cpanel file manager, the image files and make sure that the image source is correct for the path.

    Like:
    <img style="width: 280px; height: 280px;" alt="some text"
    src="your_image.jpg">

    Hope this helps


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  • Profile picture of the author Brekat23
    Ok so I went to my cpanel file manager, then under my webroot (public_html/www) directory since that is the directory I've used since I started with hostgator...I try not to change anything around since that confuses me.

    So, now that I am in my file manager, I click on upload..and it brings up those three seperate upload boxes. Are you saying that I'll have to upload every single image file this way, individually??

    Also...not sure how to check for that correct image source path. Where can I check to see if I am doing that correctly?

    If at all possible actually....could anyone give me like a 'list' of actions on how to get this online and published. I have most of my website completed, with every page of it set up how I would like....what I haven't done, and am not sure how to do (but need to learn one way or another is )
    1. How to get my site published online using file manager/kompoZer - correctly.
    2. How to get my links properly placed throughout my entire site
    and
    3. I have a video that I need to upload to youtube, but then be able to implement onto the main page of my website.

    Thats alot to do....first things first tho is to get my images figured out so that I can get my site published online.

    Thanks so much!
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    • Profile picture of the author tbunch
      Originally Posted by Brekat23 View Post


      If at all possible actually....could anyone give me like a 'list' of actions on how to get this online and published. I have most of my website completed, with every page of it set up how I would like....what I haven't done, and am not sure how to do (but need to learn one way or another is )
      1. How to get my site published online using file manager/kompoZer - correctly.
      2. How to get my links properly placed throughout my entire site
      and
      3. I have a video that I need to upload to youtube, but then be able to implement onto the main page of my website.
      The first thing you should do is as Don Schenk said - get an ftp program. I get software like this at Cnet.com. Just do a search for ftp software. You could get filezilla but I have heard of security issues with it so I know use coreFTPlight. The important thinng is to get the tools you need and make your efforts less like work.

      Now - It doesn't matter how you have your files saved at this time. You need to organize each sites files into seperate directories on your computer. You want to structure it so as the .html files are in the root of their own directory and then put graphics in a subdirectory like "/pics" as an example. When you do this their link in kompozer will look just like that with nothing else in front of it.

      This way you can go through each .html file and make the image links point to the images in these subdirectories. You then open the ftp program and select the .html and these image directories and drag them to the left side window meaning they will be uploaded to the directory of your server.

      Hope this helps!
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  • Profile picture of the author Don Schenk
    You set up links in KompoZer by highlighting the word(s) you want to be a link, click on the "Insert" menu at the top and select "link." In the box it give you, write out what will be the URL of that page to which you want to link.

    To link to your "About-Us" page you would type that page's entire URL into the box like...
    http://www.yoursite.com/about-us.html


    What I find easier to use for uploading files to my sites is an FTP client software. (The website is the host - you are the client uploading your files to the host computer.)

    An FTP client software will have two side by side windows with an arrow pointing between the windows. The window on the left shows what is in your computer, and you can browse your hard drive to locate the files you wish to upload. The window on the right will show what is at your webhost, and let you see what is in your public html folder.

    On the left you select the files you wish to upload, then click the arrow that points to the window on the right, and up go your files. You can even upload an entire folder at once. You would select your image folder in the left window, click on the arrow that points to the right, and up go your images - folder and all.

    A free FTP Client software is filezilla, available free from FileZilla - The free FTP solution

    A paid FTP client software I like is Cute FTP. It is at
    FTP software by GlobalSCAPE I am not an affiliate.

    Go with their cheapest version.

    On a different note, there is an excellent tutorial for KompoZer at thesitewizard.com: Website design, promotion, CGI, PHP, JavaScript scripting, and revenue earning. I am not an affiliate.

    Go about half way down the homepage - it is long - and on the left hand side of the site you will see it mention tutorials for KompoZer.

    :-Don
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