I hired a person to design my WebPages last year. While Im getting my business up and going I paid him each month to do updates for me. Now that everything is done and set up. The only updates are very simple that I could do them with just what I remember of HTML. So I thought. The last time I even played around with a WebPages. I was teaching myself HTML at a tripod WebPages 14 years ago. So here is what I have as far as information goes. I know that the webhost is 3essentials and I have the log in information. I logged in and it took me to Plesk control panel. I was able to go there and set up e-mail accounts for my page. But, I can’t find anything on how to look at my web pages files or HTML. What I could find was you have to use an FTP or Front page something. But, if you ever use front page you can never use an FTP. So I didn’t touch anything. I don’t know what he was using. All I know is he would update the site working off line. Then when he was done he uploaded something and the site was updated. I hope this all sound clear. Because im just a little bit lost. Any help that you can give me to get me on the right track would be great. All I want to do is make small updates to my pages and maybe make a few cosmetic changes too. Thanks!
There is no reason for you not to be able to use FTP when you use FrontPage as well. Just be sure FrontPage extensions are installed on your hosting account. You can find that out through your control panel. If frontpage extensions are not installed, then you know that he was not using frontpage! If they are installed, you can login using frontpage and this has no effect on FTP access. Other than that, if the updates are all small, just login using FTP and make the necessary changes by hand within your HTML pages. If you need any addt'l help, PM me.
so you're saying your whole site is html based? erm, forget i asked. anways, you can edit the html pages offline and then upload them through some free ftp softwares, like smartftp. or u can use an extention called fireftp in firefox to upload.
Okay, I got the smartftp. I played around with the front page and my mission statement page a little. Changed a few things I knew I could and wanted. Just to try it out. Then I ran across css. So I found a web site about css and took a crash course on what the hell that was all about. That wasn't too bad. Um, but its going to take more then just a few hours to get that stuff down. Funny part was while I was looking at my WebPages and the page that was teaching me about css. I found that pages URL in my page. There is no link on my site. Just looks like the guy doing my page is copy and pasting from the same site as I was learning from. Here is my next big question. I have a page that I keep points on and they need to be updated ever week. I send him an excel file once a week. On the page itself it looks just like the excel work that I send him. But, that not the case. There is a place in the table for the persons name then the person points. There are to pages of this one is the top 50 players and the other is all 150+ players. I attach an example. When I send him that file he is not going in there and physically typing each name and score for every one every week? Right? Is there an easy way?
He could be putting and pasting into the application he is using to update your site. The program I use allows for importing excel into table data. I am sure this is what he is probably doing.
I advice you to be very careful with what you're doing. I once worked for a company, did their website, and then left. They did not want to pay me, so they started doing everything on their own. 2 weeks later they call me to come and repair the whole thing... I made them pay twice the effort Find a relative or some1 who knows these things, let him figure it out, and then, if necesarry, teach you.
You can save each excel spread sheet automatically as html. for the most part, this works for with only minor, aesthetic adjustments needed. But what you attached was a word document. Those too can be saved as html, but a lot more funky things come up. Excel speadsheets are naturally html tables in that they are designed the same exact way (tables, rows and columns), so there's a very easy translation. word docs are a little different. But it's a non well known secret that for the most part, if you can really design a good looking excel spreadsheet that is the right width, with pictures and text inside the cells, then you've already created a webpage. Not much real difference than using a wysiwig. Both use the identical information theory and rules.