Thread: My first web site please help

I have submitted my first publication and need to know what is still needed please help.

patbosman.com (ewqtxqm)

Hi, I could only find this page. http://patbosman.com/About%20us.html
1st thing you will need to do is name your home page as just index in lower case letters & no extensions & publish. Then you will have some ware to start from. So when some one enters http://www.patbosman.com they will land at your home page.
Ah! i just seen you have soho & BV in the same directory & this wont help matters.

Good luck.

Could you be a bit more specific as I am a little confused. Do you mean that I must not put the extensions on at all.

Patbosman (ewqtxqm)

Hi Pat,
By the look of things you need to rename your 'home' page as 'index' and replublish it.

• Give this page a true 'title' (right click>page properties) it is presently called 'home'.
• The nav buttons you've chosen are better suited to a white site.
• The size and positioning of your guest book is receiving to much emphasis. (consider giving it a seperate page and nav bar link)
• Try centre align your pages (right click>page properties)
• Your linked pages aren't up yet, but when they are remember to set the link target to 'self' as they are presently 'blank' (open in a new page)
• You have keywords in place, but keep in mind that these should ideally be words people will type while searching for your site.

Cheers,

Hi, Correct! No extension has to be added. With BV it will save your page as a bvp file & when you press publish, it will automatically change this file to one with an html extension for server usage.

Hi I have just submitted the changes to my site as per your suggestions. What is the next step. I still need to finish the order page not sure what to do. Please help.

Many thanks

patbosman (ewqtxqm)

Hi Pat,

You need to rename your new "Index" page as index (no caps) and republish.

Cheers,

The page that you want to be called patbosman.com needs to be saved and published as index. This is the servers way of knowing what your main page is.

I hope that helps.

Hi I have just saved the index page and resubmitted third time lucky I hope what about the other pages.Once again thanks for the help.

patbsman (ewqtxqm)

Hi Pat,

And away we go...now the fun starts as you tweak and grow your site. You can consider adopting the comments and suggestions made by bluevodians above and I'm sure more will follow.

Enjoy.

Firstly thank you for your advice and help so far really appreciated. There are a couple of things I need to know (1) are my other pages linked? (2) on my order page I need to know what to do to? I want the person loging onto this page to order the e-course and once paid they are able to download the material which I need to format to a pdf file from my doucuments in MSword I really don't know what to do.

patbosman (ewqtxqm)

Hi Pat,

Regarding "other page links" the links are incorrectly named and dead. eg "www.patbosman.com/e-course" should be "www.patbosman.com/e-course.html" or .php depending on which file extension (page properties) you published to. I'd think you published as .html so this needs to be added to your link URL. More Info about verify links tool.

Cheers,

hey mr playitbeer ...
im jia from pakistan and im young and new to the game
can u help me im facing problems
its my first time and dont know anything about making a website
i have made a page and i have added buttons in it
i have added buttons named HOME and another buttons name is PHOTOS
so i cant figure out that how do i make a page and add photos for the PHOTO button
i mean , people will visit the site and click on PHOTOS to view the pictures ....so another page will open when they will click on PHOTOS
and they will see text written in it and pictures in it....
so im confused that how do i make that page for the button PHOTOS ...so that visitors can view it?
i mean im right now stuck on home page...the first page that will open ...when anyone is going to enter the website....
how do i design a page for the button PHOTOS?

Welcome jia,

Please open your own topic in a forum specific to your question and a variety of help will follow shortly from forum members. Posting as you have is consided to be "Hi Jacking" of someone elses topic and is frowned apon.

Cheers,

Hi I have now submitted all my pages with .html extensions I hope this works. I still need advice on the order page please.

Thanks for all your help

patbosman (ewqtxqm)

Originally Posted by patbosman

Hi I have now submitted all my pages with .html extensions I hope this works. I still need advice on the order page please.

Thanks for all your help

patbosman (ewqtxqm)

Hi Pat,
If you click on your nav buttons in BV, the link or button URL should contain the extension .html which it does not. (repeat the changes or copy/paste the nav bar on all of your pages)
Consider placing your website address in your signature, as it's easier for VH members to find, review and offer help regarding your site.
Cheers,

Hi I have added .html to all the nav buttons on all the pages.

Thanks for your patience.

patbosman.com (ewqtxqm)

Hi all please check if my pages can now be linked I have put the .html on all the pages as per you advice.

Thanks for all the help.

patbosman.com (ewqtxqm)

Hi Pat,

I would strongly suggest going through the video tutorials.

Hi I have gone through the tutorials and did what I could if there is something that I have missed please tell me. I am not a computer bofin so I don't always understand the lingo. Please help.

patbosman.com (ewqtxqm)

Everyone of your pages needs to be republished everytime you change them. Otherwise the changes you make on your website builder which is on your own computer will not show up on your website which is on a server.

http://www.patbosman.com/index.htlm >> change to simply "index" by Save Page as instructed earlier (this shows still that you are not only adding extensions yourself, but misspelling them), and re-publish immediately.

The next order is to properly Save and publish your pages according to how you have already established your Menu system:
patbosman.com/workshop
patbosman.com/e-course
patbosman.com/about
patbosman.com/contact
patbosman.com/testimonials
patbosman.com/gallery
patbosman.com/order

As you can see, none of these pages can "be found", probably because even though you have published them, they are not Saved with the same names as you have put into your Menu navigation. It is far easier to re-save and re-publish the pages according to what you already have up in yur navigation than to ask you to make global changes on your nav at this point......

Be sure to clean up your BV folder by deleting the improperly titled pages after all is said and done, so as not to confound you later.

Step by step....don't rush things, and try to absorb the linear thinking this takes to accomplish (logically, one process precisely performed at a time, just the way computers like it).

Hi I have just made changes to my front page and have put all the .html extensions on all the pages in the nav bars. Please let this work this time the only page I have not finished yet is the order page.

patbosman.com (ewqtxqm)

Not so fast.....if you go to your index page and simply roll over your navigation buttons, you can see for yourself that the ".html" extensions have not been added (look at the lower left of you browser as you mouseover them) to the hyperlinks you entered.

And this is only on the index page.......once you have properly corrected this, you can then publish the index, and proceed to copy/paste the same Menu onto all the other pages (re-publishing each as well).
>> During the process of dropping in the proper Menu nav, double-check that the pages themselves have been saved properly (matching the links in the Menu) before publishing them, keeping in mind that BV automatically adds extensions. Try to prevent duplicative work unnecessarily, right?

Hi I can see that. Please take a look at the changes on my home page that I submitted today along with my other pages. You will see that I have added all the .html as you advised. the only page not there is the order page which I will submit right now as there was an error while trying to publish it.

Is there any way in which I can talk to someone via the telephone as I have a few questions I need to have answered.

Many thanks for all your patience and help.

patbosman.com (ewqtxqm)

I see no changes whatsoever.....

You are not getting it: YOU do not add the ".html" extension to your PAGES at all, Blue Voda does it automatically for you when you save the page >> you need to SAVE pages with a simple page name only, all lower case, and if necessary with an underscore between words like_this. Period.

When it comes to linking (either dynamic as in a Menu Properties dialog box or even manually for text) you must fully enter the path, which is the page.... seen as www.yourwebsite.com/sample_page.html .... where the ".html" extension defines the page type.

You apparently are still saving pages with added extensions.....(and I suggest changing "e-course" to either "ecourse" or "e_course" to make things consistent)......and have yet to "edit" your Menu buttons PROPERTIES by adding the extension to the hyperlink for each page.

I might add that your "depression e-course" button label needs to be shortened, so it does not exceed button size. I am sure you can be briefer than you have it now, right? How about simply "online course" or "study online"??? remember, this is just a button label, and you can have the page named as it is....

Hi all I think I got it right at last. I have republished all my pages please let me know that it works. thank you all for being sooooooo! good about it.

patbosman.com (ewqtxqm)

I wonder what it might look like if you had a white shape, '800 x ur length placed on all of your pages underneath of your page content and on top of the royal bluebackground, I am thinking it would brighten up your overall look, and what it would look like by adding a 1-2pt frame around your images. Great navigation while it might even be a bit nicer if it were in the exact spot on all of your pages, you could try that. (You could do this by copy & pasting from one page to the other using the C & P tools at the top of page toolbar menu) (not real fond of that yellow around the word YOU, are you? lol) Some of your mouseover buttons are not the same as others, you might think of picking ones the same all of the way ... your page content is nicely laid out and looks like you have great content

Hi to all I have taken the above advice and republished all the pages with the changes.
One last thing to do is the "order" page I need to be able to let people download a doc from word how do I do that?

Once again thank you to all who helped to get this far I am thrilled.

You guys are great.

patbosman.com (ewqtxqm)

(Do a Forum Search on "PDF Downloads", and another one on how to covert documents to PDF --- I personally use this one.)

....and on we go....

Hi I have just published my ecourse download please see if it is ok and how do I link it to a page do I need to create a form maybe with a passwprd or something please help.

patbosman.com (ewqtxqm)

Hi could someone please help. I posted a thread last week and to dade no one has come back to me.
I also have aproblem with my forms and some advice or help. Thank you for the help so far.

patbosman.com

Hi there

You will find you get more help if you post a link to your web site that we can just click on, however im going to put it in the search engine and see what comes up.


Hi there nothing is comming up for the address you listed on the search engine i did try though.

Hi I have just republished all the pages including the ecourse download. When I preview the page and click on the download it comes up. So I hope this works. Thanks

patbosman.com

Pat,
Several of the questions you asked were answered in your other posts.
For forms, take a look at NavalDesign's posts on adding forms to your site.