Thread: Anne Kent

HELP!
I have just published my website and only the home page opens. None of the buttons work....what have I done wrong and how can I correct it.
www. artinwax.com

Double-click the navigation unit and enter the url for each button.

sorry to be stupid but is the navigation unit the buttons? Also do I just republish the whole site when I have done this. I'm not sure how to access the site once I have published. I have given the url for each button now but not sure what to do next. help much appreciated.
Anne

Yes the unit is the whole 'thing' where the buttons are. If you have allocated a url to each button, just re-publish the page. It will overwrite the previous page.

Not sure what you mean by 'access the site'?

I have names the url.and still no luck.
for instance my gallery page:-
www.artinwax.com/gallery.html is this correct? All I get on the site is
Address is not valid.
That happens with my other pages as well and yet the home page is there.
Anne

Ann, If you added your URLs to the button links, did you then publish the page again?
The page I see at http://www.artinwax.com/ does not have the buttons linked. The Home button is linked but is linked to http://www.artinwax.com/home.html
and the 'home' page must be named 'index'

I have renamed each list for each page index for my home page
www.artinwax.com/index.html and checked all the url's are there for all the pages. I tried publishing but have not had any luck. I just don't know what I am doing wrong...getting discouraged!
Anne

Don't get discouraged.
I believe you have named your Gallery page "Gallery" instead of "gallery".
Rename the page with all lower case letters and then publish it.
Then check it
This is the same as your Cards page, and your Prices page is named "Price List" -
You must name pages with lower case letters with no spaces between words. If you choose to use spaces the words must be joined together with the use of the _underscore symbol
And your 'index; page still shows no links corrected.

Don't panic!
Let's go back to the beginning:
Double-click the unit with the buttons.
You will see a pop-up called Navigational Buttons.
Listed in the box will be the details of each button, with the headings 'Name' and 'URL'
Is there anything under the 'URL' heading for each page?
If not, highlight a page name and click on Edit.
You will see another pop-up called Edit Button.
The fourth box down is where you enter your URL.
Type in the url of the correct page in this format:
http://www.yourdomain.com/pagename.html
Click OK
Do the same for the other buttons.
Publish the page again.

I am grateful for the help but I have done everything you have both suggested. No more caps and all URL's in place. still no pages other than Home page on the website. Would I be better trying the text links instead of the buttons?

That's better, we can see the links to the pages now.
OK, so the links don't work. Have you actually published each individual page?

Your links on your index page now show:
http://www.artinwax.com/index.html
http://www.artinwax.com/gallery.html
http://www.artinwax.com/cards.html
http://www.artinwax.com/prices (no '.html')
http://www.artinwax.com/contact%20us.html (%20=space)

If you saved and published these pages, I cannot find them. I can get the "Gallery" page to show but no 'gallery' page.
I'll defer to someone more knowledgeable than me.

Yes i have published each page and now get "URL cannot be found" on some pages and on some "webpage cannot be found."
Is there any way you can access my site and see what I am doing wrong? I just cannot see what to do and I have spent such a long time getting it all ready.
Anne

Don't worry about this Anne we will get it sorted.
Can you post exactly what the name of your BVP file is for your gallery page please?

Do you mean my ip address ,master username,?
Anne

No.
You named the home page index, what did you name the gallery page?

Oh sorry....I named it gallery on the button URL and gallery for artinwax on the page properties. I will change the page name to gallery.

I have all the button URL's and page names the same now except for home page which is index on the URL.

No, not in page properties. If you want to open the index page to do some changes, you open the file index.bvp in BlueVoda right?

What is the name of the file that you open to make changes to the gallery page?

Gallery.bvp

OK, this should fix it Anne, now pay attention!

Open Gallery.bvp
Save As gallery (note the lower-case g!)
Publish
Delete Gallery.bvp

Do the same for the other pages.

Fantastic!!! all pages except one now published. I cannot get Contact us to publish. Should I save it as on the button contact us or as the URL contact-us I am so grateful for all the time you have spent on this....so nearly there!
Anne

Change the button to contact_us or contactus

Once that's done, don't forget that the menus on all of your other pages need amending too. The easiest way is to delete them all and then copy and and paste the correct one from your index page.

You should also delete the incorrect pages (the ones with capital letters) off the server to avoid duplicate content. You can do this through file manager in control panel.

Still can't get contact-us to publish and am too tired to do any more today. will try again tomorrow! must be doing something really silly as all the other pages are there!
Anne

Make sure the bvp file is called contact_us or contactus

Thank you for all the help. I'm afraid I have given up at the moment on getting my contact_us page published and have added my e-mail to the index page.....not good I know. Can someone have a look at my site and comment please. Also does it go out to search engines through Vodahost or do I have to pay extra for hosting?
Anne

Once you publish your Blue Voda created website, and you are "finished" with it, then VodaHost includes with every account the opportunity to allow them to submit your website to all the major Search Engines without charge. There is an advantage to this, as having your website submitted professionally is much more advatageous for your website than manual submission by someone who is only capable of some of the work it entails.



Once published, VodaHost will submit your site to all the Search Engines once without charge.

Yes I do have a Voda host account and have been very happy with it all. It is me who is making mistakes. I may delete the contact us file and start again when I have the time. Thank you for the help.

Hi Anne

I would just like to go over a couple of things that might help you out.

As I think you already know, whatever name you give to the page you area creating and have saved it by, is how you need to recall it from the web.

The only name you cannot choose yourself is the main landing page of your website, which needs to be named, saved and published as index

All of your other pages can have names chosen by you, but will need to be identical to the link you apply so the page can be found.

It's recommended to use all small letters, and do not use spaces between the words unless joined together by the use of the _ underscore symbol.

If you have created a contactus page .. then link to this via your url followed by /contactus.html or if you choose contact_us then link via your url and follwed by /contact_us.html

When pages aren't found, it usually leads to a little error of a typo in the name you applied to the page itself, or the link you applied. Both need to be identical.

It's essentially all a filing system on your server.

Your Website / The Page Name

Every other page other than index, needs to be recalled with the .html after the page name .. index does not require this when you are typing the domain .. only use the domain name .. for all other pages, you also have to apply the name of the page and it's .html extension after the link.

Page titles are found by right clicking on your page properties, and these words can be chosen by you. It is best if you take a little read of the SEO guide offered by Bethers, you can find the link in her signature. This will help you as a guide to assist you with giving your page a title. Remember, the page TITLE is different than the page name. Once you grasp this, things will flow smoothly for you ..

Oh, and one other thing, the words or type that you apply on the nav bar itself - NOT THE LINK - but these can be capitalized and named whatever you want to .. this is fine ..

Welcome and Good Luck! There is lots of help around here, you will be rescued for sure!!

Thank you Lady Eye. I am trying a form and thank you page now and have posted a question under Forms....maybe you can help.
Anne