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I've read a few pages of this forum and have not seen my question - though have learned some stuff, thank you.
When I first purchased my domain, the webhost guy put up a "coming soon" page, so that when folks visit my site - www.prey4pets.com - they see something instead of nothing. Okay, I'm finally discovering that I am going to have to write my own site by my own self, and I am *clueless* but learning. So, I get the first part done enough to put it up and see what it looks like (my own version of "coming soon"), and I do the FTP thing, I upload the index.html and a few jpgs...
and... woohoo!... nothing happens.
Same old "coming soon" page.
I checked, and I don't think I'm retarded, but there's something very basic that I'm missing here. There's a "Parent Folder" that *goes away* when I double click it - revealing my few files and the directory /PREY4PETS that the webhost put there for me. I don't know what the purpose of the directory is. I put my files into it, I think, and it didn't make any difference. I deleted the directory(folder), and it didn't make any difference. The files I uploaded are still there, however.
Whoever said the interface was "Explorer-like" needs to put down the crack pipe. I can't tell if my files are in the folder, or totally unconnected to the folder, or if I'm even on the right planet.... this is a very UNintuitive interface, at least for those of us who haven't grown up speaking FTP, I guess.
I've been through the tutorials - they are obviously designed *by* and *for* people who already know what they're doing. How about some tutorials for the rest of us?
All I need to know is how to get my web site to show up.
Thanks in advance.
Nicole in KY
vegetarian butcher (yes, for real)
I've read a few pages of this forum and have not seen my question - though have learned some stuff, thank you.
When I first purchased my domain, the webhost guy put up a "coming soon" page, so that when folks visit my site - www.prey4pets.com - they see something instead of nothing. Okay, I'm finally discovering that I am going to have to write my own site by my own self, and I am *clueless* but learning. So, I get the first part done enough to put it up and see what it looks like (my own version of "coming soon"), and I do the FTP thing, I upload the index.html and a few jpgs...
and... woohoo!... nothing happens.
Same old "coming soon" page.
I checked, and I don't think I'm retarded, but there's something very basic that I'm missing here. There's a "Parent Folder" that *goes away* when I double click it - revealing my few files and the directory /PREY4PETS that the webhost put there for me. I don't know what the purpose of the directory is. I put my files into it, I think, and it didn't make any difference. I deleted the directory(folder), and it didn't make any difference. The files I uploaded are still there, however.
Whoever said the interface was "Explorer-like" needs to put down the crack pipe. I can't tell if my files are in the folder, or totally unconnected to the folder, or if I'm even on the right planet.... this is a very UNintuitive interface, at least for those of us who haven't grown up speaking FTP, I guess.
I've been through the tutorials - they are obviously designed *by* and *for* people who already know what they're doing. How about some tutorials for the rest of us?
All I need to know is how to get my web site to show up.
Thanks in advance.
Nicole in KY
vegetarian butcher (yes, for real)