I hadn’t updated my web-site since I got my new computer last fall… I revised and tried to re-publish the site last week… Instead of the “Home” page loading, it opens to “Index of /”… Any suggestions…???.. BTW… it takes about 10 hours to up-load the site through my 56k modem… Paul http://www.hollowsurfboards.com
Paul I just sent you a post asking what was wrong before I read this one. Call your provider I think they can help. It has something to do with the suffix on your homepage file I think. When you redid it you probably have two now and it is defaulting to the directory. I havn’t messed with that stuff in over a year when I was working on a site. I don’t think you have to up load the whole thing again. I think it has to do with changing one file name in the root directory of your site. Sorry I can’t be of more help. I’m a web idiot! Try calling your provider though I bet some kid can put you right on it! Krokus
Try naming the top file in your site, in other words your home page, “index.html.”
Good job Dirk. I couldn’t remember exactly what it was. I think that is all he needs to do. Paul??? Krokus
URL direction looks for words in certain order Index being the first then home i think and so on. Index should be your main one, if you use a FTP program you can just change the names in there. If you need help email me I have all the programs and stuff and no modem… I recommend ACEFTP freeware if your not using one now, Like I said any help you need just email me Ill be glad to help ya out. http://www.surfboardglassing.com
Hey, Paul - Awright, had a look around the hollowsurfboards.com site and a few things jumped out. First of all, you need some web pages ,not just the pictures and such.There aren’t any there, you see. You may want to check and see where your editing software puts them. See if they work, then upload them. The good news is that web pages are relatively small and quick to upload compared to pictures. If you haven’t got any, well, put a few together. My favorite editing software is 1stpage2000, available as a free download from www.evrsoft.com ( link below) . That will take a while to download, unfortunately, but the good news is that it comes with lots of references on HTML writing. It’s not as mindlessly easy as some of the (multiple curses inserted here) WYSIWYG stuff like dreamweaver and front page…but the pages it puts together are vastly easier to update and fix than the ones made by that cursed crappe’ like dreamwheezer. A few other tips and tricks - I notice you have a few BMP files in there. A word of warning; BMPs are HUGE files, change them over to JPG files using an image editor like Irfanview or simply Windows Paint. This will cut the size of 'em tenfold. Makes them quicker to upload and quicker to download for whoever is viewing the pages. When designing a website, first thing you need to do is get a pencil and paper out and sketch the layout of it all ( see below) . Make a bunch of boxes and connect them with how you’d set up the links and all. You wouldn’t start cutting frames for a board without laying it out, would you? Same deal. Start with index.html and go from there. Again, simplicity is good. A good guide to HTML writing and site design here: http://www.pagetutor.com/pagetutor/ and you can download some of it for future reference. I did. Avoid fancy stuff on your pages. Marshall McLuhan may have been right about a few things, but the medium is definitely not the message here. Make them as simple as possible. Not only is it easier to do, it doesn’t distract from what you’re trying to show people. I see you have WsFTP - nice little piece of software. You can use that to change names, locations and such which is much faster than uploading the whole shebang. A bit of advice on page and image names: go with all lower case names, no spaces and just letters and numbers - it makes some browsers and uploads glitch if you don’t. Hope that’s of use. Drop me a line if you need a hand. doc… http://www.evrsoft.com 
hey DOC, thats great advice for him, I didnt want to go that much into dretail on here, but good show, I noticed how you kind of talk down on dreamweaver for its editing, ever use it with CONTRIBUTE? I think its the easiest ive used its like logging on via FTP but you se all the pages and you can edit them online move stuff arond with just clicks no real programing, if you have it set up right it uploads and places right too i think. I dont do too much im still trying to figure out contribute, I just got macromedia studio 2004MX so im still messing with it and coldfusion etc… http://www.surfboardglassing.com
Hey,how goes it My problems with the wysiwyg editors date from a project I was doing with a couple of other people…one of whom insisted on using Nightmareweaver. Why do I call it Nightmareweaver? Well, if you look at a page written with it and hit ‘View Source’, what you see is it codes the text and everything else for every damned line of text. That was the only time I have used the caps lock key in e-mail, to SCREAM at the guy, ‘cos I was the one responsible for content and updates and such. And what he was doing was making my life next to impossible. All that damned complex code on every line. The wysiwygs are not only gonna vastly increase the size and download times of the page,but if you have to edit or update it becomes a Nightmare. Lets just say you misspelled a word ( and the spell checker didn’t catch it - they don’t always) and you go in to do it…ugly things can happen. Links get odd, lines suddenly get radically different in text sizes and so forth. And they haven’t changed or improved it. I note that you write "i think. I dont do too much im still trying to figure out contribute, I just got macromedia studio 2004MX so im still messing with it and coldfusion etc… " See, that’s the No Fun Part 2. It’s got a learning curve and a nasty one. As do all the others like it. On the other hand, to update a web page, I can just copy it ( if I don’t have a copy on my machine already) attack with either my editor of choice ( see link to 1st Page 2000 below) or plain ol’ Notepad ( hey, I’m not too bright, y’know? ) and then save iut and then fire up a plain FTP program like WsFTP and upload it. Friend of mine just got the responsibility for the website where she works. And they sent her off to Dreamweaver classes. Two weeks of 'em. And you know, she wound up asking me how to get her pages together with a deadline coming up. To which I answered 'Okay, kill off Dreamweaver and learn some basic HTML. Write it simply with a text-based editor. Get it done. ’ The software I use is quick, dirty, easy and best of all, it’s all free stuff. If you really want to, you can add scripts and Flash and things like that, but in all honesty I don’t see the purpose of it; I’m not selling my services as a Flash programmer, I’m just this guy who does a little of this and a little of that and sometimes I put together a page about that. How nifty my pages are technically isn’t real important compared to what’s on 'em, y’know? Dunno, that’s just one man’s opinion. http://www.evrsoft.com/