Trouble with basic webpage

[winterlude]

Hi all,

I attended a web building tutorial years and years ago and created a webpage from scratch. I volunteered to build one for my workplace because I remembered that it wasn?t that hard, but I?m having the damnedest time with the little things, and can?t seem to find much help from browsing the internet.

The situation: I?m using MS word to build the website. We?ve got a domain name and our webspace is activated at Bell. But when I try to upload my homepage, I can?t connect to the site. Also, when I try to test the page, none of the pictures work.

My directory structure goes like this with faq folder inside index folder inside www folder.
www (folder) =>
index.html, index_files (folder)=> filelist.xml, img001.png, img002.jpg, img003.gif, header.html
faq.html , FAQ (folder)=> filelist.xml, img001.png, img002.jpg, img003.gif, header.html

I?m trying to upload with an FTP program the whole www folder to the ?public? folder of my webspace. The program says that the files uploaded successfully, but I can get to the site, or see the pictures embedded when I?m just opening on a local browser. Can anybody spot what I?m doing wrong?

Thanks in advance

 

[Atheus]

Originally posted by: winterlude
I?m using MS word to build the website.

Ye gods...

Also, when I try to test the page, none of the pictures work.

So do you see the page, just with no pictures? Or do you not see a page at all?

I?m trying to upload with an FTP program the whole www folder to the ?public? folder of my webspace. The program says that the files uploaded successfully, but I can get to the site, or see the pictures embedded when I?m just opening on a local browser.

Hang on... have you actually managed to get any part of the site showing? No?

IF not, are you sure you're uploading to the right folder? It should be like /public/html/ or something - you need to put an index.html file in there.

I suggest you make a new text file with notepad (NOT MS word) and put something like 'testing testing 123' in it, then rename it index.html, and up it to the public html directory. At this point going to www.yourdomain.whatever should show 'testing testing 123' on a white background.

 

[winterlude]

Thanks for the prompt reply...
My folder uploaded to the public folder is "www", and you've written "html", so maybe that's my goof?
I'm seeing all the written material when I test on my local browser, but the pictures are just blank spaces with little red X's in the top left corners.

 

[Modeps]

I'm so confused. Why are you making web pages using Word?

 

[Atheus]

Originally posted by: winterlude
Thanks for the prompt reply...
My folder uploaded to the public folder is "www", and you've written "html", so maybe that's my goof?
I'm seeing all the written material when I test on my local browser, but the pictures are just blank spaces with little red X's in the top left corners.

Is it just called 'public' with no child folders? You probably just have to upload directly to that then, i.e, not within a www folder or any other folder.

So you want the file /public/index.html to exist on the server.

I can't solve your image problem until I see the code, but I assume you don't know much about the code since you're using word, and I'm hesitant to tell you post the whole thing...

Just get an index.html page working and go from there.

 

[winterlude]

Thanks for the feedback, guys:

I called Bell again to asked them about my directory structure, and they said that I couldn't see the site because our domain name servers were pointing to the wrong address.

We contacted our Domain guys and asked them to point to the right address.

I'm using Word because it is easier than writing from scratch, and I don't like the free web builders that I've seen. I looked at MS Frontpage, but I don't see much difference between using that and using MS Word for a basic site.

Hopefully, once our Domains are pointing in the right place, I'll be able to see and test the website.

Thanks