January 17, 2009 | In: Website Maintenance
How upload files from frontpage or web expression and FTP?
Question by zetajenn: How upload files from frontpage or web expression and FTP?
I’m having problems changing from frontpage to expression and filezilla. My server quit with the frontpage extensions and so I’ve got to find another way to update our website and I’m feeling like I need to take a college course in web design to figure it out!
I’ve used Frontpage for the last 6 years and I never fully understood it either, so that is part of my problem. Let me explain…our website has a .com and .net version. Through the .net, (I have no idea how this happened) but all I had to do was make whatever changes to the pages that I wanted, for instance, changing our hours of business on the about us page and then save. I didn’t even have to click on publish. I have no idea why, but by saving, it changed the pages online. Now…with our .com site, I did have to actually click publish, but it was set so that it changed my changes, but I didn’t have to select which files to upload or anything like that. I’m sure all of this wasn’t very secure, but WOW it was easy!!
So now I’ve downloaded filezilla and I’ve purchased Web Expressions and can’t figure out either. With Filezilla, I’m logged in and it says files transferred, and directory updated, but when I go to the http: version of the website there are no changes. Now, if I enter the ftp:// address and log in, I see changes.
With Web Expressions, it tells me that there are errors with my destination address, which I’ve asked my server about. So I either need a ftp for dummies explanation or I don’t know! I am so clueless about what I’m doing that I don’t even know the correct questions to ask. This is about to stress me to my limit. The only reason I even started doing the website myself is b/c our web host/designer would take months to get the updates on the site and then they weren’t “updates”!
Best answer:
Answer by Chris B
Use Adobe Dreamweaver’s own FTP file upload/download/manage system. You will not need any of the other stuff!
View this video I made to learn how:
http://www.youtube.com/v/T-ztCPRHr3A
Good Luck!
If you need further assistance/advice, feel free to contact me.
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2 Responses to How upload files from frontpage or web expression and FTP?
David M
January 17th, 2009 at 5:20 am
Video tutorials:
http://www.threehosts.com/publish/expressions-web.html
http://www.threehosts.com/publish/frontpage.html
Hope this helps.
Colanth
January 17th, 2009 at 5:22 am
1) Remove Web Expressions and Front Page from your computer. Entirely. download Notepad++ http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/download.php
Learn how to write your pages, so you know what’s in them. You’re not going to have any control over a page you edit with a WYSIWYG editor. the editor may create what you want, it may not. (Microsoft products are famous for producing “Microsoft HTML” which is nothing at all like real HTML.)
2) Learn how (or ask your provider’s tech support people how) to point both the .net and .com addresses to the same server. Then you’ll only have one server to make changes on.
3) If you FTP a file to your site, that’s what’s on your site. Turn off caching on your browser. If you update pages frequently, add expiration in the past and no-cache to your pages, so your users don’t keep seeing the old pages.
All you need do in Filezilla is drag the file from your computer (left panel) to the server (right panel) – make sure it’s going into the correct folder. If there’s no error message, it went.
As far as errors with the destination address, you shouldn’t be running any other program – just Filezilla. you write (or edit) the page in a text editor and upload it with an FTP program – one never sees the other. FTP for Dummies – see #1, above.