Help with website...again!

EXreaction · August 17th, 2005, 11:45 PM

Well, recently, I have been working on a website, but I have no clue on what exactly I should be doing...so far, I have been making the pages with frontpage, but I know that will not work later on.

So anyways...how do I link each page together?
Also...this site is going to be for free games, and I wanted a small forum section for adding games and stuff like that, and have a section for each game, that has a mini review section, where people that stop by can give it a 1 to 10 rating, and I can write some info about the game. I have no idea on how to do that other than making a web page for each game, and I don't want to make seperate pages, because it will take up a lo of space, and I really don't want to spend that much time on each.

Here is the main page so far:
http://exreaction.100free.com/

**Martoch** · August 18th, 2005, 12:19 AM

You mean how do you link the main page to the other pages with hyperlinks/buttons?

I use FrontPage 2003.

You right click on an image (or highlight a word or words, then right click the selection) and select 'hyperlink'...then the window you see above will be displayed, simply click on the page you're trying to link to (it will show up in the Address bar-rates.html in my example) and hit OK.

I hope that's what you're trying to do.

Are you publishing your site to the web from within FP?

Rand Dusing · August 18th, 2005, 12:57 AM

For links, just highlight and press Ctrl-K (I believe) for shortcut?

For adding games and reviews, I think you will need to use some sort of PHP program. Something like PHPNuke, but something a little simplerer for just what you need.

EXreaction · August 18th, 2005, 02:43 PM

Ya, I know how to hyperlink something, I just don't know what the adress would be to hyperlink it to.

The site that is hosting it has you upload via ftp...
This is the site that hosts it:
http://manager.100free.com/index.php

I am also using frontpage 03...I tried to make it able to access the ftp with frontpage, but it doesn't work right...

I'll look into php a little...I just have no idea on how to do anything with it...anyone know of some good free tutorials?

EXreaction · August 19th, 2005, 01:14 AM

Anyone?

VHockey86 · August 19th, 2005, 01:18 AM

With a .php extension you can still use normal HTML, its just that the webserver will check to see if there are any PHP code blocks in it. If you are struggling with links, you certainly don't want to get caught up in PHP just yet.

Open up the website you are working on,
then goto File --> Publish Site

Select FTP, put in the ftp://yourwebsite or whatever host your web provider tells you to use. Directory is probably just '/'

You probably need to check the "use passive FTP" box if you are behind a router.

My suggestion would be to just edit everything locally, and then use a decent FTP client like "Smart FTP" or something classic like "wsftp" to upload the files.

As for the hyperlinks, you should be able to just use relative links (as opposed to absolute links which would be like http://mynewsite.com/test.htm)

So lets say you have two files in the same directory on the FTP, called "index.htm" and "test.htm"

If you are linking FROM index.htm TO test.htm, just specify the link as "test.htm"
The code should look something like this, if you switch to the HTML/code view

<a href="test.htm">My Test Page</a> where "My Test Page" is the text that will be the link to the page.

EXreaction · August 19th, 2005, 01:41 AM

Ya, linking like that should work!

Well, I tried registering at a different site...MUCH MUCH nicer! The last site I was at only had an ftp uploader...that is it...this site has soooo much more! So, I'll screw around with this site, and see if I can find out how to use php.

EXreaction · August 19th, 2005, 04:03 PM

Ok, I figured out how to install phpnuke, and I have got that working, but I don't think that is what I want...does anyone know what all of them have? I am looking for a free one with a small forum section, and hell I don't know...I want something like a shopping site...think of newegg...it would have a section you go to...then click on the name of the game you want, then have it show a page that has a user reviews section, and some info about the game...kinda like what newegg has.