I just got done creating my personal website and I want to get it onto the internet. I know the server of my internet provider: mail.ptd.net but I am not sure what to do... Any help would be appreciated. Audrey/Sherasi
(also, I have a program that converts to HTML ...Printshop... but the text and the pics seem to be altering and becoming distorted.. I am not sure it isn't the program itself. Thing is not ALL the pics and not ALL the text is doing this! I changed all the fonts to the 3 common ones used on the net, so I am not sure why it is doing this)
Posts: 9074 | Location: PA, USA | Registered: 06-05-02
This program is used to upload files to your Web server. You can do it either way, so choose whichever is easiest for you.
Getting you first page up is the often hardest part of creating a Web page. I have often had to resort to calling the Technical Support personnel and ask for assistance.
I encourage you to call your tech support if you have trouble getting in the first time. Once you get the first page on, it is easy to edit the page to make it look the way you want. PTD Support contact information.
PS: If you're using Internet Explorer version 5.5, the FTP:// often fails the first time. Just run a second time. I.E. version 6.0 seems to work much better. (Click Help/About Internet Explorer to see your version number).
[This message was edited by Dwight on 11-06-02 at 09:48 AM.]
Posts: 4318 | Location: Anchorage, AK | Registered: 06-05-02
Guys, I did finally get to a program called MS FTP. The problem I have, that the tech support from PTD.net is not allowed to help with (as this is for FUN and NOT a business they are helping)is changing the format to one that is accessible by the internet.
Dwight- thanks, I had used all those ptd.net resources (home-page set up and tech support).
I did get the files uploaded, and I did find out my little problem (and Sonnet, there was the issue with index.htm) but my web creating program, Broderbunds: The Print Shop, isn't being all that informative about transferring the format to .html or .htm. The tech support DID switch the alignment to the public access, but now I have is a ton of gibberish which she is not allowed to help me figure out.
Here is the link if any of you can read Hieroglyphics. If you can, maybe you can give me an idea of how to proceed.. NOT THE LEAST ABOUT HOW TO CHANGE ITS FORMAT NOW THAT IT IS ONLINE!
I checked out your Hyrogliphics. It appears to be a binary file, not a web script, which would be a text file. So, the file that you've ftp'd to your webserver is not written in a language the server can parse. I'm not sure that there is a way to simply "convert" a printshop file to html. You could probably build a page using graphics made from Printshop, but I don't think Printshop will actual create the html.
In the mean time you could do this, copy the code below in notepad and save it as index.htm
<HTML>
<BODY>
���<H1>Hi</H1>
<P>This is my freakin test page - check back later</P>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Then ftp it to your server. It should allow you to confirm at least that you are transferring properly. Be sure you have renamed you existing "index" page if you don't want to lose it.
Then I'd try creating the page in Word, import the graphics you've made in printshop, then when you save - save as .html. Then ftp that file to your web server. That may not give you exactly what you want but it will beat the hyroglyphics!
good luck!
[This message was edited by crescen7 on 11-06-02 at 05:34 PM.]
[This message was edited by crescen7 on 11-06-02 at 05:36 PM.]
Posts: 402 | Location: Austin, Texas, USA | Registered: 06-03-02
What was the exact filename that you Uploaded to your server ? Most specificly, what was the file extension ? (That's the 3 letters after the dot)
On your computer are you viewing the page you made with Printshop or ??
When I was looking at your Hiro's I noticed some filenames inbedded in the wierdness. Does the file "WINDOWS\Desktop\Scanning and Images\K*****y Family\Dustin\Dustin 2001.jpg" sound familier ?
(my added *s)
For now try as crescen7 suggests with his short HTML code.
All that hyroglyphics you're seeing are probably the pictures in binary form, when they are put on a web page as was done here the browser really doesn't know how to intrurpret them so it trys to display as text.
Not to worry, things will work out and we all may learn something.
Byter, standing by & waiting for the real GURUS.
Posts: 1052 | Location: Sun Valley, Calif. :^þ | Registered: 06-03-02
