frustration with ftp setup

[Lemmy]

Originally Posted by karomesis

just out of curiosity, how many of you guys make from scratch your own freesites,galleries, LL, ect? I am almost at the point where I just order the damn custom templates from someone and start putting the pics/movies in for submissions. I have sales goals for the end of this year and summer of 07 that I need to meet, 6 and 20 sales a day respectively.Every day that goes by without sites to submit is another day lost

With goals like that I suggest you invest in the proper tools to reach them. Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Cute FTP is what I use. Sure you can build stunning websites with Notepad and freeware image editing programs, but it will take you much longer. And also get some good reference books; the Dreamweaver Bible, the Photoshop Bible and an HTML reference.

[karomesis]

so have you figured out all of your FTP woes or are you still having fits??

It WILL be resolved this week, I have a freind who is a program engineer and he's going to walk through a tutorial with me.

Lemmy, what are your thoughts on NVU and GIMP? They are pretty easy to use for me, and do almost as much as dreamweaver and photoshop. Do you think it is sufficeint for making and submitting freesites?

[Lemmy]

I'm not familiar with either, but if they work for you and get the job done that's all that matters.

[Chop Smith]

Bill Gates is the best friend of my brother's wife first cousin's daddy so I always try to use his products - Back Page for web pages. I want to learn coding one day and will probably ask a useless cocksucker to teach me.

[MrYum]

Originally Posted by Chop Smith

Bill Gates is the best friend of my brother's wife first cousin's daddy so I always try to use his products - Back Page for web pages. I want to learn coding one day and will probably ask a useless cocksucker to teach me.

Don't really have any recommendations for books Karomesis. I have seen a few online tutorials, but most of them seemed pretty weak. I started out using an older version of DW, and quickly realized how much superfluous code it was inserting into pages. So bit the bullet and opened notepad...then later heard about Notetab.

Hand coding really isn't difficult at all...once you get the basics down

I found one of the most useful tools that helped me learn was when I saw something I liked...I'd view source and see how they did it. Of course, never directly copying someone else's work...but analyzing the code itself to ascertain how they'd created the effect that caught my attention. That's a great way to lern yerself some o them thar html skilz

[Surfn]

Originally Posted by MrYum

...I'd view source and see how they did it. Of course, never directly copying someone else's work...but analyzing the code itself to ascertain how they'd created the effect that caught my attention. That's a great way to lern yerself some o them thar html skilz

That's pretty much what I did when I first started. I learned the basics then anything new I came across I learned how to use that by viewing source and then playing with it until I got it where I liked it.

Of course the learning curve wasn't steep at all in the stone age

[Kinky]

if somebody put a gun to my head and said "hand code me a page that just says HELLO" I would be a dead man

I actually built my very first pages/sites with a proggy called "WebDummy" and man they were sweet lemme tell you, I couldn't even make a thumbnail but that scrolling text effect really got me excited

so have you figured out all of your FTP woes or are you still having fits??

[NightSurfer]

Newbie first post.

I like Internet Explorer built in ftp.
Simply write ftp://user:pass@ftphost and go.
Drag and drop, very simple.

I have also done som efforts in Gimp and I like this software a lot (probably because it's free ). The only problem was that I think doing my own content is to much time consuming.

[u-Bob]

FTP: FlashFXP all the way.
Building Pages: Photoshop + Editpad.