Dreamweaver newbie

[rdowns]

I'm not a web developer, I'm a Sales and Marketing guy. I have been using Front Page to design our emails and recently downloaded a trail of DW. Seems I can get a bit fancier with DW.

With FP, I inserted images that are stored on my HD and when uploaded to my e-mail service provider, the images uploaded as well.

Created a page in DW today and inserted images I always use plus a few buttons from DW. When uploaded, none of the images or buttons did. The code and layout were fine but no images.

Any ideas?

 

[Stampyhead]

Dreamweaver is a little more"hands on" than Front Page, meaning you have to upload all of the pages, pics and anything else you have on your site to the server yourself. When I create a website I put all of my images into a folder called "images" and link them to the page(s) from there. Then I upload all of the pages and the folder of images to the site together. What program do you use to upload to your site? Are you doing it directly in Dreamweaver, or do you have an external FTP program? Dreamweaver is just different (more professional), but you'll get used to it eventually. I've been using it for about 6-7 years now and I think it is the best web page design software available.

 

[stoid]

Dreamwaever has powerful built-in FTP capabilities. I couldn't get it to work with the student web space, but it syncs beautifully with my paid and registered account. If you set up Dreamweaver to handle your FTP, it will automatically check to make sure that images and such upload with each page.

 

[Converted2Truth]

So i'm a noobie too when it comes to dreamweaver. I'm using dyndns and some other stuff to get my powermac G5 to serve webpages. The site is http://coxfamily.homelinux.net/index.htm Dreamweaver is cool, but there are things that I don't understand. We made a really advanced looking site using CSS and stuff, but the search buttons didn't work. I know how to program in Java/C++/Pascal/Delphi/etc, etc, and i know that button's got to be some kind of script that accesses some type of service on my computer. Question is, how do i get it to work? What about an authentication page that allows only certain users on? How do i do that? Dreamweaver tells me that i need to install cold fusion. Well when i tried, it told me that i wasn't root user... no shhiit. So i activated root user, logged into root user and installed coldfusion. But root is NEVER usually logged in, and therefore coldfusion isn't loaded. Nor do i know how to get it to work for my user, which is only an admin. Also, dreamweaver is designed to work with 'a remote server', when my G5 is trying to be the server. My G5 is stable, and hardly ever gets turned off... I don't want to use my schools storage, because it's crappy. With my G5 online, i've got ftp/http access to 500GB of storage and goodies. So screw that.. So anyone got some ideas for me? Also, if you noticed the link, i've got to type 'index.htm' or it won't auto-go to index. This is the first time i've made a site where i had to explicitly say 'index.htm' at the end. Also, you might have noticed that my site doesn't contain '/~username/index.htm' and that's because i don't want the damn tidla (or whatever you call it) in the link... it's something my family won't be able to figure out.

So anyway, i've got issues... and would like some help here. And please nobody try to hack my box with that link...

Edit: Please note that my wife is the one who designs our site... i just take care of the technicalities

 

[Jaz]

Whoa, one at a time!

Seriously try these sites for most issues. Dig in to the linked sites and most will have working examples or tutorials. There are thousands of sites with coding tips, google for a specific problem and you'll usually find a forum post or site with code examples.

http://www.alistapart.com/
http://www.w3schools.com/

As far as one of your queries ...
Restricting access by users is simplest by using htaccess on your own G5 Apache install:
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml
OR
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/htaccess.html
& for passwords
http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/daluu/scripts/htpasswd.php?userid=user&password=test

GOOD LUCK DUDE!!!

Cheers, Jaz.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Leave ROOT disabled if this machine will be reachable from the web.
Security 101; disable any publicly known account that has full privileges. Every *nix box has the Root account! Set up a separate account with admin rights then launch any web service with a terminal script either with cron or some other event (restart etc). Even if the webadmin account is not logged on as a user it can still run services and processes.

So i'm a noobie too when it comes to dreamweaver. I'm using dyndns and some other stuff to get my powermac G5 to serve webpages. The site is http://coxfamily.homelinux.net/index.htm Dreamweaver is cool, but there are things that I don't understand. We made a really advanced looking site using CSS and stuff, but the search buttons didn't work. I know how to program in Java/C++/Pascal/Delphi/etc, etc, and i know that button's got to be some kind of script that accesses some type of service on my computer. Question is, how do i get it to work? What about an authentication page that allows only certain users on? How do i do that? Dreamweaver tells me that i need to install cold fusion. Well when i tried, it told me that i wasn't root user... no shhiit. So i activated root user, logged into root user and installed coldfusion. But root is NEVER usually logged in, and therefore coldfusion isn't loaded. Nor do i know how to get it to work for my user, which is only an admin. Also, dreamweaver is designed to work with 'a remote server', when my G5 is trying to be the server. My G5 is stable, and hardly ever gets turned off... I don't want to use my schools storage, because it's crappy. With my G5 online, i've got ftp/http access to 500GB of storage and goodies. So screw that.. So anyone got some ideas for me? Also, if you noticed the link, i've got to type 'index.htm' or it won't auto-go to index. This is the first time i've made a site where i had to explicitly say 'index.htm' at the end. Also, you might have noticed that my site doesn't contain '/~username/index.htm' and that's because i don't want the damn tidla (or whatever you call it) in the link... it's something my family won't be able to figure out.

So anyway, i've got issues... and would like some help here. And please nobody try to hack my box with that link...

Edit: Please note that my wife is the one who designs our site... i just take care of the technicalities

 

[rdowns]

Dreamweaver is a little more"hands on" than Front Page, meaning you have to upload all of the pages, pics and anything else you have on your site to the server yourself. When I create a website I put all of my images into a folder called "images" and link them to the page(s) from there. Then I upload all of the pages and the folder of images to the site together. What program do you use to upload to your site? Are you doing it directly in Dreamweaver, or do you have an external FTP program? Dreamweaver is just different (more professional), but you'll get used to it eventually. I've been using it for about 6-7 years now and I think it is the best web page design software available.

I'm not designing web pages but HTML emails. They are uploaded to my email service provider either by copying the code to a container or using a front end to upload everything. Images always loaded in FP but not in DW. No images when copying the code and huge formatting issues when using the front end. Guess it's a call to tech support later.

Thanks.

 

[kettle]

I'm not designing web pages but HTML emails.

How terrible, I really dislike HTML emails. It's jus ta very rude and inconsiderate thing to be doing. So you're either designing them in full knowledge of the problems or you're just doing it ingnorantly because you can.

oh well.

 

[rdowns]

How terrible, I really dislike HTML emails. It's jus ta very rude and inconsiderate thing to be doing. So you're either designing them in full knowledge of the problems or you're just doing it ingnorantly because you can.

oh well.

How presumptuous of you. Our emails are sent on an opt in basis and users chooses HTML or text.

 

[kettle]

How presumptuous of you. Our emails are sent on an opt in basis and users chooses HTML or text.

I bet you don't explain the privicy issues (plus the many other short comings) when you give a general user the option of plain or html email.

The good thing about HTML email is that it looks good, but then it all depends on the understanding of the recipient as to whether they appreciate what it means to the day to day functioning of the internet.

Then again, as long as things look good...

 

[rdowns]

I bet you don't explain the privicy issues (plus the many other short comings) when you give a general user the option of plain or html email.

The good thing about HTML email is that it looks good, but then it all depends on the understanding of the recipient as to whether they appreciate what it means to the day to day functioning of the internet.

Then again, as long as things look good...

Again, you presume wrong. Our privacy policy is clearly indicated and widely read (according to WebTrends reports). I understand your point of view but you shouldn't paint with such a broad brush.