Uploading a new website - help

[supragold]

Anyone on here use dreamweaver 8? I have basically tought myself :s and put a site together for our company.
I built it offline and on my own network but will soon need to upload it to the server via FTP? I have no idea what I'm talking about haha. I know a fair bit but like i say i've tought myself. Once i've uploaded everything how does and someone types in the website name (same as our current site) how does it know what to open for example.
Sorry in advance for sounding clueless.

Mark

[edd_t]

blimey where to start.

Am guessing you have the FTP details for your website? usually just domain name or IP address and then logon and password should be just enough.

when someone types in the URL for your website, unless you have set something different (which from the sounds of it you havnt) then it will automaticly display the page you called default.html or index.html. so whatever you want them to see first, best call the file name default.html

[DamanC]

Mark - gimmie a buzz tonight if you like.

[supragold]

Arrr...sorted. Thanks Edd. I just needed to rename my home page as index.html instead of home_page.html. I still have loads of pages to creat and alot of links don't work but a few do. I just wanted to set it live to make sure it all works before I carried on lol. Thanks alot guys. :thumbs:

O the website is www.milbanktrucks.co.uk take a look and let me know what you think. Bare in mind I've never created a website before. The areas i have completed are most of the Services section and various other sections like links policy, environmental, gallery and copyright section. Your thoughts would be appriciated guys :)

[supragold]

O great. One of our computers here is running Explorer 7 and the layout is all over the place yet on 6 its perfect. Any ideas on how i can put that right??

[supragold]

Arrr i cant figure this out now :(

[DamanC]

O great. One of our computers here is running Explorer 7 and the layout is all over the place yet on 6 its perfect. Any ideas on how i can put that right??

Its awful in firefox too.

[Veilside]

well done! what a beautiful looking site. im using IE6 though!

if u've used CSS then im pretty sure its got to do with that. sorry not much help!

[sdavies]

Does DW8 use CSS 3 selectors and stuff? That would explain a whole boatload of issues. Will ask my friend in the morning that develops using it! (Never touched it myself).

Edit: Looking at the site in firefox 3.0.1 on MacOS 10.5.4 looks ok... will check earlier versions.

[edd_t]

gallery is cool, how did you do that?

[MrRalphMan]

Looks pretty good.

Couple of things..

1) - The request for brochure, ringback looks like a breadtrail with the slashes.. That could confuse.
2) - When the page is made half the size of my screen, all the text overlaps itself.. Maybe force the right panels to be a min size, so you get scroll bars instead..

Blooming good though, especially for a first try.. Much better then I could do.

[supragold]

Thanks for your comments guys.

I have been looking and looking but am struggling to sort this now :(

[QUOTE=sdavies;2049418]Does DW8 use CSS 3 selectors and stuff? That would explain a whole boatload of issues. QUOTE]

I have no idea, how can i tell and what boatload of issues would that cause?

[supragold]

Get in. I think i've cracked it. :)

Can anybody varify that this now looks ok and what browser they are using please.

the site is www.milbanktrucks.co.uk

As said previously there are only some pages complete at present so if you do not get redirected when clicking a link its because i haven't got that far yet lol.

Thanks