[LBo] Making corrections on a web site.

[Tim]

On Monday 08 May 2006 03:17, Lonnie Mullenix wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have volunteered to keep one website updated and am attempting to
> totally rebuild another site.
>
> Thus far, since they were built using MS programs, I have been trying to
> keep the one site updated using MS Frontpage, which I have available at
> work.  I have managed to do a fairly decent job of getting the main
> pages updated, but in the process, I have managed to loss all of the
> links to other pages.
>
> On this box I have both Bluefish and Nvu installed.  I have managed to
> fix the links using both editors, but have not been able to get the
> updated information to the web hosting site.
>
> Nvu has an option for publishing the page, but doesn't jump through the
> username and password hoops, so doesn't publish.  Bluefish does not
> offer any thing for syncing or publishing, and being the total newbie
> that I am with this web stuff, any help would be appreciated.
>
> I would assume that Bluefish uses ftp for file transfer, and I know how
> to spell that fairly well, but that is about it.
>
> I am fairly sure that I have figured out how to make the needed
> corrections to the web pages and that I can get it working properly
> using Frontpage.  However, I would very much prefer to be able to use
> Bluefish for my main html editor.  So, I need to find/figure out how to
> upload the corrections after I have made and tested them.
>
> If you could point me in the right direction, toward something that is
> simple to understand, with some real life examples, I would be very
> grateful.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lonnie

As mentioned above you need an ftp program, while ftp from the command line 
will work its not exactly the most intuitive way for a beginner. I use gftp 
which is the gnome ftp program. This give you a window which is split in to 
two vertical windows. On the left is your file system (windows explorer 
style) and once you have made a connection to the ftp server the righthand 
window will display the file system of you web server.

You simply select the files you want to upload from your pc and then select 
the folder where you want to put them on the web server. Between the two 
windows is normally  small bar with two arrows (one pointing to the right 
hand window and other pointing to the lefthand window). Simply click on the 
arrow point towards the righthand window which will then take the files from 
your PC and put them on the web server.

There is normally a log window at the bottom of the screen which tell you what 
files are being transferred or if something failed what.

For the record I use gftp on Debian testing with KDE 3.5.3

Tim

		
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