Web Artist 1.0 SE & uploading

[Des Gander]

Hi,

Can anyone help this real novice please? I thought this freebie 'pull &
paste' program from the front of a mag. would be just the job for me to put
together my first web site quickly - and it has. Trouble is, for uploading,
my pages are all contained in a 'Web Artist' folder or 'directory' and
Freeserve want an identified index.html page - 'an index in the root'
(whatever that is)....

I've gathered I should create a separate 'welcome' page and link this to the
'Web Artist folder - but I'm floundering as to what all this means! (& how I
do it..). Would some kind person be prepared to spell this last bit out to
me please? Anyone else used this program and tackled the same problem?

Apart from the built-in FTP program with Web Artist I've tried uploading
with- WS_FTP LE too - though I haven't fully read its Help File I must
admit.

Otherwise, it's back to the drawing board ..

Des Gander
D...@gander-exeter.freeserve.co.uk

[umaremasu]

Sounds as tho' the easiest way is to rename the first or main page
index.html, and make sure any links back to this page are altered to <a
href="index.html">whateveryouwanttoput</a>, and then instead of uploading
the full directory, just upload the individual files using WS_FTP.
If however you have further folders within your main folder, this will mess
up all your other link refs .In this case you may be best doing a separate
splash page called index.html, and linking it to your web artist directory
contents with :
<a href="whateverthefoldernameis/whateverthefilenameis.html">press here to
enter</a>
and make sure you don't put this into the webartistfolder, but upload as a
separate item.
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Des Gander <d...@gander-exeter.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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[Des Gander]

Many thanks, this is what I needed - together with the coding. Just the job.
Now I can get on with taking my time finding my way round Dreamweaver -
another freebie from a Mag. cover.

What a nice bunch you all are.
Des Gander

In this case you may be best doing a separate
> splash page called index.html, and linking it to your web artist directory
> contents with :
> <a href="whateverthefoldernameis/whateverthefilenameis.html">press here to
> enter</a>
> and make sure you don't put this into the webartistfolder, but upload as a
> separate item.
> --
> umaremasu
> www.btinternet.com/~umare_masu ICQ# 38775750
> )__I__
> / __I__
> ___l___
>

> Des Gander <d...@gander-exeter.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:87venu$4gf$1...@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk...

> > I've gathered I should create a separate 'welcome' page and link this to
> the
> > 'Web Artist folder - but I'm floundering as to what all this means! (&
how
> I
> > do it..). Would some kind person be prepared to spell this last bit out
to
> > me please? Anyone else used this program and tackled the same problem?
> >
> > Apart from the built-in FTP program with Web Artist I've tried uploading
> > with- WS_FTP LE too - though I haven't fully read its Help File I must
> > admit.

> > Des Gander
> > D...@gander-exeter.freeserve.co.uk
> >
> >
>