I am completely new to web design but I have to change out my organization's old website for a new one. I need to install the site into dreamweaver so I can start making changes to the text and the images and fix links that don't work. I was basically handed a set of html, css and dreamweaver files with no instruction. How do I put the files into dreamweaver and define the site or whatever, and how do I publish the site once its polished, and do I need to put in on a server or something? This is my first time doing anything like this.
You can go to site > manage sites in the menu. This will allow you to setup parameters for the server and the local environment. If you have an exported Dreamweaver site file this is where you would import site to adjust the configuration.
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I am currently working on a site which is built in using a Custom Designed CMS (there are files with .asp extension). This site is really old and seems like running on IIS Server, which I don't have the access. User asked me to add few items. I made changes to index.html file and uploaded to the server, however, the changes don't seem to take in affect.
So my question to Pros, is, do i have to restart the IIS instance? I tried to change the index.html existing content such as Search Bar's placeholder text from Search to search, uploaded the page and nothing happened. Also added new p tags and no luck.
I have never dealt with IIS site. Any suggestions? One thing for sure I can see is that the Home Page in Custom backend is pointing to the index.html file (which I am altering).
Not at all. I does require a reload/refresh at the client-side though.
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I am in a unique position where my client is at a disagreement with the company that built her site and is hosting it then the company took down the site. She needs me to replicate her site as is. I was able to find her site on the following link which is not the domain that was taken down but still shows the site. Is there anyway to replicate this? I tried HTTrack and saving the pages from the browser but both did not replicate everything.
http://roederickmontemayor.com/sites/jyankauskas/index.html
For anyone who might come across a similar problem, I used HTTrack to copy all files on a folder on my desktop. The flash banner did not copy so I right clicked on the page in firefox and chose "view page info" then clicked on media and selected the embed for the flash banner then saved as. In netbeans I created a new project and copied and pasted all the files into the root folder, then moved the swf file into the flash folder and I had an exact replicate of the site and a very happy client who got to keep her site. There might be easier ways to do it but this was what I did.
Recently I've been tasked with redesigning a website for the current company I'm working at. I've been using weebly to make the site, and then exporting the HTML to be re-hosted on the company's servers.
However, I've noticed that some functionality in weebly's code has stopped working. I imagine this might be due to weebly hosting some elements on their own servers, but this is merely a beginners best guess.
1. The picture for the logo on the banner does not appear once the HTML is rehosted
For comparison, here's the site while hosted on weebly:
http://mjmacoustique.weebly.com/
and the site on the company's servers:
http://www.mjm.qc.ca/redesign2015/
When weebly hosts, the ''MJM'' image should be on the top left and function as a return to home page button when clicked. However, when it's hosted on the company's server, the image is not found.
2. On Firefox, the background image of the home page is replaced with an all black background
When opened in firefox, it fails to load the background image of the main page.
Any help or solutions to these problems would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
I can help with question #1: the logo is hosted on weebly's servers, but in the html it's written in a shortcut method like this example: /uploads/2/6/8/5/26851316/1434298489.png"
the easy workaround would be to keep the weebly version of the site working, in in the html change the src value of the missing images to something like this http://mjmacoustique.weebly.com/uploads/2/6/8/5/26851316/1434298489.png
So you haveto add the http://YOURSITE.weebly.com before all the src values of your images.
otherwise, just load all the images you need on a blank page of the site on your servers, copy image urls of those and replace the urls in the html with that.
Hope that helps?
The firefox issue might also be solved if all your src values are linked correctly but I cannot be sure about that.
When I tried exporting a site from weebly, some assets were missing from the zip it produced. This resulted in some images failing to appear because they simply weren't there. I don't know how often this happens (or if it happens only for some sites), but weebly's export feature definitely seems to have bugs.
I worked around this by using wget to recursively fetch the content that weebly was hosting. Then I hand-copied the missing assets (and only the missing assets) from the directory structure saved by wget and merged them into the directory structure from weebly's export zip. This is time-consuming, but necessary since the directory structure fetched by wget includes dynamically-generated content (meta data for weebly's editor, assets with decorated names, etc) that you probably don't want in the content you host elsewhere.
I have been looking for a WYSIWYG editor to add into my own built CMS. I have come accross Nicedit, which is fantastic however, i cannot seem to upload an image and resize it.
Does anyone have any idea how i can do this?
Don't forget to add this code on your page, without it you will not be able to do so
Also you have to change the configuration of the editor and make it upload to a specific location on your server or other remote servers
http://wiki.nicedit.com/w/page/515/Configuration%20Options
where can I find elegant looking Wordpress (or not Wordpress, but similar style) themes in plain HTML/CSS format, without all the php?
thanks.
View the page source of the theme preview page in your browser. Save the code.
Easy for one page. Difficult for many pages.
You need to see in browser each page you want to get the HTML/CSS.
Firefox Menu > View > View Source
IE Menu > View > Source
A good way not only to save but to study the design and HTML/CSS structure,
use FireBug, Firefox addon. I am very sure it save lots of time and you will love it.
I'm not sure what you mean in your question.
If you mean, "Are there themes for Wordpress that don't require php?" then the answer is no. However, you don't actually need to know php in order to use these themes. You can just load them and then alter only the CSS.
If you mean "How can I adapt a Wordpress theme for a non-Wordpress site?" then you'll have to do this yourself, manually. First make sure you are using Firefox and install Firebug. Go to a site that has the theme that you want and then open up Firebug.
Under the HTML tab you'll be able to see the static HTML of the page, after it has been processed by the backend PHP. Just click "Edit" and then copy and paste everything in there into a new file. Then click the "CSS" tab and go through each style sheet, again clicking on Edit in order to copy and paste everything into new files, 1 for each sheet. Then stick all of the files into a folder and edit the header of the html file to make sure the external stylesheet links are pointing to the stylesheets you have created. Open it up in a browser and it should look just as you want it to.