Dear All, A good friend of mine asked me to maintain a website for her and I said I would do my best. Well I really know nothing about this but I am willing to learn. I have Suse 8 and I would like to do this using Linux. Does anyone have any ideas, suggestions, or know-how? Your help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Marcia
You are talking about keeping a web site hosted by somebody other than you right? What tools were used to build the web site? Are there any special scripts or is it just plain HTML? If it is a simple site your CD/DVD has all the tools you will need. If there is more going on you will have to learn those tools. There are some Microsoft only extensions that can show up if the site was build by a naive webmaster. If it is hosted on a IIS server run for the exit now. pben On Wednesday 12 February 2003 06:43 pm, Marcia wrote:
Dear All,
A good friend of mine asked me to maintain a website for her and I said I would do my best. Well I really know nothing about this but I am willing to learn. I have Suse 8 and I would like to do this using Linux. Does anyone have any ideas, suggestions, or know-how?
Your help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Marcia
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 18:43 pm, Marcia wrote:
Dear All,
A good friend of mine asked me to maintain a website for her and I said I would do my best. Well I really know nothing about this but I am willing to learn. I have Suse 8 and I would like to do this using Linux. Does anyone have any ideas, suggestions, or know-how?
Your help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Marcia
Follow Pauls advice, but if everything seems okay (nothing M$-centric), then download Quanta. The latest version is 3.1. It's fairly simple to use, though you'll still have to learn 'some' html (there's lots on the web to teach you and you can also use konqueror to 'view document source', to get an idea of how things work sometimes...it's how I do it quite often). Use IglooFTP from the SuSE CD's (if you want an easy to use gui ftp client) to upload/download the things you need to from the website. John
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 7:46 pm, John wrote:
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 18:43 pm, Marcia wrote:
Dear All,
A good friend of mine asked me to maintain a website for her [...]
Follow Pauls advice, but if everything seems okay (nothing M$-centric), then download Quanta. The latest version is 3.1. It's fairly simple to use, though you'll still have to learn 'some' html (there's lots on the web to teach you
I'll second that suggestion. I'm in the same boat, so to speak, but in my case, "a good friend == me" :) [see the site in my .sig -- that is my site on my own server] I noticed KDE 3.1 comes with quanta [had to manually install it -- the "updgrade" instructions for updating from 3.0.x --> 3.1 end up only updating those packages you already have installed...] but it's pretty slick. The new version has a "preview" button, which is one-step-shy from true "wysiwyg" html editing, and as you become more comfortable working with it, you'll find you need to use it less and less often. On the left side of the screen is a panel with 4 tabs -- the right-most tab actually leads to a set of instructions that outline various components of HTML along with the proper parameters and so forth. The only thing that would improve it [in my mind] would be some concrete examples, as in "this html code: 'blah-blah-blah' produces this output: [actual rendered output]" This would be especially helpful for table segments.
and you can also use konqueror to 'view document source', to get an idea of how things work sometimes...it's how I do it quite often). Use IglooFTP from the SuSE CD's (if you want an easy to use gui ftp client) to upload/download the things you need to from the website.
I think quanta has a number of "methods" for updating the site, including FTP. However, in my case I was able to map a samba "share" from my web server to my client where I'm editing, so simply clicking the "save" icon updated my site in real time... :)
John
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