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Topic: TIP: Viewing and Editing your web-site (Read 626 times)
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Berlin-Bob
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This is blindingly obvious, once you know it !
You have a copy of your web-site in a directory (or 'Folder') on your computer.
There will be a file here called index.htm or index.html.
Drag this file into your (off-line) browser. You can now view your web-site, as it appears on the internet.
Edit and change to your heart's content, and when you are happy with the results, go online and upload the changed files to your web-site.
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Keith Bateman
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Hi Bob,
I have used that tip - thanks for reminding me/us.
Just one thing that threw me - a couple of photos show up OK on the browser - but as their files name were not correct - they did not show on site.
When you download through my FTP - it doesn't say which were not d/l - they all go though the same - when you use the rootschat file manager it does say "bad file name" - but the trouble with that programme is that it seems to only allow a few files at once.
Just so people aren't too worried when an odd picture doesn't appear!!
Keep those "simple" tips coming Bob - some of us are "very simple". 
Cheers
Keith
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Berlin-Bob
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Hi Keith,
S-o-o-o simple, you ain't
Keep up your good work, you are very encouraging to and for others !
One point to bear in mind, is that WINDOWS is pretty "sloppy" about file names, it treats upper and lower case the same.
RootsChat uses a LINUX server, which is more fussy. Best tip here is to keep all file names in lower-case, and avoid blanks and special characters in the names.
Bob
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Berlin-Bob
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Just a thought based on a comment from Falkyrn on another posting:
You can of course elect to "publish" to your own hard drive and then transfer the files later using a stndard FTP program but this has some minor problems in itself. e.g. all image references will be to the files on your hard drive and will need you to change the coding to point to the correct directory (folder) in http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,24903.0.html
If your website building software uses full paths (addresses) for all images and files, then this tip - Viewing and Editing offline - won't work, as the path will be on the web-site, and not on the computer.
Most family history software which "export to HTML" or "Create Web Pages" etc, store the results in a directory (folder) on the harddisk, and just use a relative path - i.e. the addresses given are just relative to wherever the root is, for images and other pages. So when you then upload everything to your website, you don't need to change any addresses, as it is all relative to the root-address, whether on harddisk or web - so it's OK !
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Berlin-Bob
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Here's another reason for viewing and editing offline:
First some quotes from
Topic: Mozilla-Firefox
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,85801.0.html
The only drawback with Firefox is that not every site is written properly for ALL browsers and there is the occasional hiccup in the way a page is displayed ..
The only drawback, is that my web-pages are sometimes displayed differently in IE and Firefox. I don't know if this also applies to other peoples'/firms'. It doesn't seem to.
However, that is a general problem for web designing, you have to try everything out in a variety of different browsers. Even if you don't use Browser X, someone else might so your web pages have to work on Browser X as well !
and referring to that quote:
always good advice .... and always remember to check your web designs at different screen resolution ............what looks great on your huge screen can be an absolute dogs dinner on standard screen sizes.
So to sum up:
After you have sweated blood and tears, trying to get your web-site looking the way you want it, someone else is going to link to it with a different browser and it will look different 
So install as many browsers as you can (IE, Netscape, Firefox as a minimum), and examine your site in these browsers as well.
And, as Falkyrn says, try it with different screen resolutions as well. Your dog may love looking at the "dog's dinner" on the screen but people won't !
Bob
(freely admitting that I haven't done this consistently for my web site 
Ah well, back to the drawing board !)
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