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fishead · Feb 09, 2005

<Then click on the Add Files button to select all the files that you want to upload to your chosen destination folder... >

Ok but I still don't know which folder is my destination folder so I am stuck at beginning.

fishead · Feb 09, 2005

<Then click the OK button. Next, in the Transfer Queue tab at the bottom, click on the Start arrow and that will get the Global Queued Upload to begin and continue until the upload is complete, regardless of whether SmartFtp has to reconnect multiple times to do so... >

I understand this but I still don't know which folder is my destination folder for webpages, so I am still stuck at the beginning.

Can I skip IX's webpage builder and just do it with FTP? Can I publish with FTP?

fishead · Feb 09, 2005

I feel like I'm really screwed now. I feel like I was let out to pasture then the gate closed and lights went out. I may not be able to make a website after all.

fishead · Feb 09, 2005

I just deleted a million words, let me put it this way,

I already have my images and webpages in database using FTP, now what? Brick wall

fishead · Feb 09, 2005

Here is some screen shots. Maybe someone can sense out of-

http://76.162.50.20/help.html

fishead · Feb 09, 2005

OMG I figured it out!!!!!

sunny

I don't need their sitebuilder, all I have to do is upload it with FTP to Fisheadcartoons folder and that is publishing! That makes things a lot easier!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I read where website hosts now offer upload services and they might be good for one or two images, they are .... a pain in the butt, and right on.

I researched and found that ftp will publish pages by inserting into right folder. I will check out what Nr wrote on exactly how to upload with ftp, I did not know that what he said. I guess drag and drop is for images mostly. Anyway, its on a new road now.

I had to go the long way to learn but thats how I happened upon all my pages I published with sitebuilder and that answered everything. Now everything will be in fast forward once I get going. No more waiting for that stupid uploader they have, and no more slide shows that fall apart days later. Its a cover up, they won't tell people their software is crap. They'll just let you have problems and won't say a word. I should leave the ticket open or leave bad feedback. Jerks.

rb2d2 · Sep 25, 2004

Nightrider · Sep 25, 2004

Fishead, I'm sorry for the slow responses. I'm really not doing well right now...

What we really need to do is get together through IM or something so that I can walk through every problem until you understand the whole process. I think there are some terms that are confusing you, such as publish, database, etc...

Any file that you can access from the Internet is considered "Published". So any file that you upload to your FTP Server where the destination folder allows public access is "published" because the file can be accessed by anyone who knows the URL to it...

There is no database on your FTP server. When you upload your files to your FTP Server, it has absolutely nothing to do with any database. A database stored data while your FTP Server stores source code to your web pages. Data is dynamic, meaning it can change all the time while the your web page code would remain unchanged unless you modify it yourself. So here in RCF, the phpBB code is stored on the FTP Server while the data for all our messages, settings, etc are stored in a database on a DB Server. They are kept separate from each other. So when you look below at the Page Generation times, the PHP percentage pertains to the time it took to obtain the code from the FTP Server while the SQL percentage is the time it took to pull the data from the FTP Server...

munky2

Nightrider · Sep 25, 2004

fishead · Feb 09, 2005

Ok Nr, thanks for explaing it. Here is a page I made by dragging the html page in:

http://www.fisheadcartoons.com/test%2011107.html

It Worked! Thats great. Now where to start. I guess I should make an index page and when completed I can copy it over the older index that is that website builders page. Eiether that or I will just delete and drop my index in and then start building the site. Things should go pretty fast once I get going, again.

I have to baby sit shortly so I won't far today.

Thanks Nr and Rb!