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[eimrahc]

Hi, I know how to design a site and do the codes, but how can I upload it to it's web hosting?
I got about 4 files from which I have coded the HTML and CSS. how can I make it into 3 separate, HTML and CSS file. No idea at all. please help, thank you.

[LD]

Your profile indicates you are a Graphic and Web Designer. You say you know how to design a site so how is it you don't know about manipulating web files and uploading files to a web server? Just saying.

[eimrahc]

Your profile indicates you are a Graphic and Web Designer. You say you know how to design a site so how is it you don't know about manipulating web files and uploading files to a web server? Just saying.

yes I am a web and graphic designer, I only do designs and coding haven't tried uploading it on the server/host for own domain.

[kgun]

First you need a hoster and the necessary configuration like ftp password etc.

Then you need a file transfer program like the file transfer in Dreamweaver (That I use), http://netbeans.org/ or http://filezilla-project.org/

[mjtaylor]

Most hosts have support files to help a newbie webmaster upload files. Try your host's help area.

[Tubby]

I remember having terrible trouble uploading my first web page. I had help from my web host. (useless) I had help from the forum I was using. (useless) I struggled for a week until I met a fifteen year old girl in in the local "Internet Cafe".

Many times the instructions given miss out by not explaining something very simple that it is presumed everyone knows.

There is plenty of good company out there that gets stuck on seemingly simple things. . (I am regularly one of them )

My Problem: My WYSIWYG editor needed to be 'told' to save the website as html files. (I never knew that)

P.S.
At the time I remember seeing some .gif files. . these were not marked html files so I hesitated before deciding . . . "bugger it. If they break something . . they break it!". (they worked also)

[weegillis]

The OP is obviously not designing websites in Notepad. How many editors out there DON'T have FTP clients built in? The OP simply needs to read the e-mail from the hosting provider for particular details; namely, FTP username (sometimes referred to as 'log in') and the FTP password. The log in is usually the domain.

There's not much else to it. Testing server is beyond the scope of this question, and if there is a field for it, the base URL of the site is a nice thing to have stored somewhere in the editor/client.

[claybutler]

I'll skip the whole "I'm a web designer but I've never uploaded a website part" and just point out the simple things that trip up beginners.

1. All your files go into the root of the domain. This is usually a folder called "html" or "www"
2. Make sure all your files are uploaded, people forget their image folder or css files all the time
3. If you see a bunch of broken image links when you view the site (but on your local machine the preview looks fine) then you forgot to upload the image folder - OR- all your image links are relative to your hard drive.
4. You images take forever to load in your browser then you inserted print quality images into your web pages and then just dragged the corners to make then smaller. This doesn't make the source file smaller, only the display properties. So you''ll need to save all the images properly.
5. Your home page must be named index.htm or index.html

[dgswilson]

user/public_html (domain) /

With filezilla, which is my choice for ftp, it's just - host "domainname" - username - password - quick connect

(clear data, don't save passwords)

[NoHarleys]

I've been designing and uploading websites for about 11 years now and I still get tripped up on occasion. Normally the "root" directory for most of my hosts is /public_html/ for uploading. Just last night I needed to update a site that I don't update very often. Apparently the root on that server was called /htdocs/. I guess at some point in the past I had uploaded all my files to the actual root so I thought that was where they needed to go this time (since they were already there). After about 20 minutes of trying to figure out why the page wasn't updating when I replaced the file I decided to look in that /htdocs/ folder and seen I had the same files in there. Replaced the file I needed to and was all fine after that. Even experienced users can still be "fools".