i need help with ftp

[crackinkickz]

can someone give me step by step help when i log in to my ftp program. because when i upload i cant see my site. the when i tried uploading with frontpage it worked butyou couldnt get out of the intro because they said i had the links pointing to my computer. my site is <ulr snipped> . can someone help me please?. thank you

[edited by: oilman at 5:07 pm (utc) on May 3, 2003]

[GumbyDave]

What FTP program?

[SethCall]

Um... you gotta be more descriptive than that.

Well, in terms of ftp'ing. If you have a server with a certain web addess, and you know it, then download a program like smartFTP, where you can then put in the address of the server, and your username/pass. From there, you put your files in the right place.

THe key thing there is putting the files in the right place. (you have to put your .html files in the exact right place...)

Let me make one thing for sure.... you do have a server sitting somewhere else right? Like somewhere on the web? You aren't trying to host your files from your computer, are you? (cuz if so, you dont need an ftp program).

Just checkin : )

[crackinkickz]

ok. yea i did all that with smartftp, leapftp, flashftp, and ws_ftp. i uploaded it in the right area. but it still didnt work. i have 2 index pages because i have a intro. i want you guys to view the site but i cant. but i use frontpage and when i linked the picture it wouldnt work because someone told me its pointing to a file on my pc. but my sie isnt anywhere else but on my pc its in unzipped and all that.

[HitProf]

I'm afraid I don't really understand what you mean with your site being unzipped on your pc.

You need to upload all pages and also all images and anything else you refer to from your html pages to your web host.

[SethCall]

still reallly hard to know what you are saying.
If I understand your last post, then you are doing things quite a bit wrong... as in, if you pictures "linked" to your pc, then your images for your webpage will definatly NOT show up.

I have never used front page, but basically, the "src" attribute in your "img" tag has to be relative to the server its on.

so say index.html is on your webserver.

an img should be like

<img src="coolImage.jpg">

and then your "coolImage.jpg" should be also in the same folder as your html file is, on your webserver! I guess frontpage tries to hide the "src" tag (and all html) from the user, right? Well somehow dig in there and find it. You can probably right click on the image and go to properties or smoething like that.

[fathom]

If the referral for the image has something like file:///E:/2003/2003_banners/image.gif... you need to change the bolded reference on the html page for the image > to the directory structure of the web site you uploaded to.

This could be done simply by removing file:///E:/ from the image source referral.

[g1smd]

That is the sort of answer that I would have given as well.

It has been three days.... did it work?