Thread: Publishing & Viewing Assistance

Hi........I have just published my site, its very basic - index, photos (lightbox), contact and thankyou ......but I'm very excited....!!

Can you help me though please with the following;

All the pages look fine when in preview but when I check them online -
The index page comes up fine but the bottom centimetre is the background colour instead of the picture, I've tried a couple of things to lengthen it without success.

My menu buttons don't take me to the photos or contact pages, one gives me error 404 and the other just says the page doesn't exist.

I've been doing the tutorials and reading the forum, I thought I had done everything I needed to but I'm not very techy...so obviously not!

Any help would be great.....Thanks.

Its morairabandb.co.uk

Hi, you have 1 to many http's in the link, but even after removing this, the page is still not showing. Would be worth d/checking the pages name.

Both 'Contact' and 'More Photos' are linked to "button.html".
Should show the page name exactly.

Best bet would be to go into your cpanel & find the published pages & click on the file & then the url link to see if the page opens.

Hi....thanks for the replies, I'll take another look at the page names - thought I had that bit right but I'll check.

jcaywood when you say the 'contact' and 'more photos' are linked to 'button.html' .....sorry to be stupid but what do you eman exactly - linked via the hyperlink icon to each button that way or the pages are linked to 'button.html' - its just that whenever I am in those two pages I can't get the hyperlink icon in order to link the pages however I try.

Thanks again...:)

Go to your site and scroll over the buttons and you'll see the link at the bottom of your browser window. The link goes from your button to the page you want to open. So basically you have told both 'More Photos' and 'Contact' buttons to open, when clicked, your page named "button" with the URL of http:/www.morairabandb.co.uk/button.html
I left a '/' out on purpose.
You do not have a page named 'button'.
Open your page which contains your photos in BV, what is the page named? Should be named something like 'photos'. Use all lowercase letters with no spaces. If you must have spaces separate the words with "_".
Make sure you have published the page.
Let's say you have named this page 'photos'. You would need to edit the link URL of the button to read:
http:/www.morairabandb.co.uk/photos.html
Then publish your index page again.
Each button must show the EXACT location of the page you want to open.

Thats great -Thanks for your advice, I've renamed all the buttons, resaved all the pages and republished them all.

I'm still being taken to 'error 404' and 'cannot display webpage', for those two pages.

Maybe I'm being stupid but - should I be able to hyperlink those 2 pages by going in to properties or page properties, its just that the hyperlink icon doesn't work when I'm in those pages on BV.

I'm obvioulsy still doing something wrong............very frustrating :(

This one has started to show. http://www.morairabandb.co.uk/morephotos.html
But not the contacts & no images.

On your Home page (index) you have the page or the background hyperlinked. You don't really need this. To add a link, double click on your navigation bar and Navigation Bar Properties will open. Click on the Name - 'Contact' and then click Edit. Where it reads 'URL: type in the proper URL for the page you want to open when that button is clicked.
For example: h t t p://www.morairabandb.co.uk/contact.html
Be sure to use the exact name you have named the page.
Then do the same for the next button.
Then Save and Publish.
Did you move the photos on your computer. Open 'morephotos; in BV. Do the pictures show on that page? If not, browse to find them and then save and republish again.
Also, remember to name your photos using no spaces. Your Bedroom 1 photo appears as being named "Bedroom%201.jpg" which means you have named it "Bedroom 1" (the %20 represents a space in the name.)
Just remember lower case letters and no spaces.

May I make a suggestion? You haven't corrected that double 'http' on Contact button yet. Go ahead and make corrections as you go and Save and Publish the page. That way when people look at your site they can see what still needs to be done.

You need to work on your page Titles - but let's get the linking problems fixed first.

Hi........thanks for your patience.

I've corrected the double 'http', I've checked all the buttons via the nav bar as you suggested and they all have the right names, I could see the photos in BV, but I replaced some and I took out the spaces in the names, I've saved all the pages and republished - so i think I've done everything you suggested so far but they still don't link to my pages......can I scream now or should I wait a while longer? lol :)

Okay. Let's review.
From your Home page (index) you show two links:
More Photos: http://www.morairabandb.co.uk/morephotos.html
this takes you to your page of photos (We'll move the lizards to the front later).
Contact: http://www.morairabgandb.co.uk/contact.html
This should work IF you have saved your page as 'contact' and have published it.
Open your contact page, click on FIle in the upper left corner - Click on Save page as...make sure the file name reads only contact and Save as type reads 'blue voda files (*.bvp)
Then publish the page and let us know when you have done so.

How many websites do you have?
If you have an addon domain (second website) you may be publishing to the wrong directory.

Hi...........OK, I have only built this one website, I have another domain name morairabandb.com for which I have used Cpanel domain pointer, when I enter this domain name I am directed to my current index page without any probelms.

My contact page has been saved exactly as you suggest from the start and is in blue voda files (*.bvp). However I have just renamed it, saved it and republished it.

The lizards being behind the photos is intentional so that's OK!

Thanks again for all your help:).....and I hoped this was going tobe easy!!

Everything is going to click into place in a while.

I found your contact page:
http://www.morairabandb.co.uk/contact.php

It should be published as ...html
This is a form which doesn't work. Is this the page you are saving and republishing? If so, open a New Page - insert text saying 'Under Construction", save it as contact and publish it. Let's see if this shows.

Well...you're brilliant, that one works perfectly.............does this mean I just have to change the original contact page to html? I thought the tutorial said it had to be different, maybe I'm confusing it with something else??

That might work - I'm not sure. But there are problems with your form anyway. I tried to submit a message and couldn't.
I would suggest just using that same page and creating a new form on it. The tutorials talk about .php but the contact page with the form should be contact.html. Best thing to do is to pause the tutorial and do the work, then resume.

Also, the links on your other pages will need to be changed also. From More Photos to Home reads http...Home.html. This should be
http://www.morairabandb.co.

When you get all the links done, read Chris' links in Post # 4 above about PixResizer and Image tips. Some of your photos are HUGE and slow loading.

Let me clarify my last message: when I said 'suggest you use the same page' I meant to create a form on the new contact page. Sorry 'bout that.

Ok I'll give all of that a go tomorrow as its almost 1045 pm here and I've been doing this for long periods today (as have you!)

Thanks soooo much for all your help, hopefully i will be able to continue the thread tomorrow and let you know how it all went.

:) :)

I see you have your links working and the photos on More Photos are a lot smaller. Could be a lot smaller but compared to one you had at 1.5MB these are such an improvement.
On your page Titles, they show Home and morephotos. We're not talking about the page names here - this is the page Titles. This is what shows at the top of the browser window when you open the page. You want these to describe the page using keywords as best you can. Perhaps for your Home page something like: La LaGarta Villas for a peaceful, relaxing vacation under the **** trees...: This is just an example.
Then for More Photos describe what the pictures are about.
Use words that someone may use in a Google search for a vacation.

Content and MetaTags keywords: You need content on your pages. You need to have text explaining these wonderful vacations, great weather, whatever. I see back and forth opinions on whether metatags are important or not, but you don't want to use any keywords that you have not used on your page. You need to write a few paragraphs about what you're pushing. And on the photos page, use text to describe the beauty of the rooms and the villas. Tell all of the advantages and charm. You got to sale it!
Good Luck

Hi...........yes I have been trying to make the improvements and a little more has clicked into place for me - thanks to your help I must say! I resized the photos to the size mentioned by Chris - do you think I should make them even smaller?

Anyhow, thanks very much for your latest advice, I'll look into that too and add a few more bits and pieces. I've decided not to have a form but to have a tariff page and a link to my email address instead - and some links to things/places around here - more tutorials to read I guess!!

Thanks again.

Don't worry - you'll get there. It won't be long before you're on here helping others.
Cheers.

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Hi........got it thanks, I have replied - I didn't realise from the mesage that you were already into the forum.