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Posted by meneedit on Jun-15-2006 04:40:

Uploading a website...

Hi guys,

I recently got myself a job designing and maintaining a website for a small business.

Now, I know how to design websites but I know nothing about uploading them.

My boss wants an official address so I know he has to pay for it but how do I go about getting the domain name and then uploading the site?

Thanks guys, any help would be greatly appreciated coz I don't even know what to search for on this sort of thing! lol.

Posted by D-res on Jun-15-2006 04:53:

find someone to host it. www.winsave.com is good

after that, download an ftp client and upload it to your webhosts server

Posted by jdat on Jun-15-2006 05:13:

n00bl4r

Posted by philliez on Jun-15-2006 05:21:

how did you get this job and you dont even know that! lucky bastard! I have to the shit freelance, I be up at campus trying to slang websites LOL.

Get a fullversion of an FTP program (go to mininova.org - Search for CuteFTP)

Go here: http://www.findmyhost.com/ and choose a host.

This is very very basic stuff and if you cant figure out the rest then you shouldnt even have taken the job.

Posted by prothoid on Jun-15-2006 05:33:

get some web hosting
get domain name
set up domain name to point to web host
upload website to web host using either ftp program or cpanel based file uploader

Posted by philliez on Jun-15-2006 05:33:

and why the hell are you asking TA? if you go a job maintaining and designing a website and you dont know shit then you should be searching the web and learning as much as you can as fast as you can. its not complicated at all but you have to at least know what you are doing.

Posted by prothoid on Jun-15-2006 05:34:

quote:
Originally posted by philliez
how did you get this job and you dont even know that! lucky bastard! I have to the shit freelance, I be up at campus trying to slang websites LOL.

Get a fullversion of an FTP program (go to mininova.org - Search for CuteFTP)

Go here: http://www.findmyhost.com/ and choose a host.

This is very very basic stuff and if you cant figure out the rest then you shouldnt even have taken the job.

ive had random people come up to be asking me to make them a website, pretty weird. i get so many people wanting websites, i tell them to come up with a basic design and some basic ideas and call me. either they're having trouble coming up with designs or having trouble dialing my number, but they just dont call

Posted by philliez on Jun-15-2006 05:38:

quote:
Originally posted by kofrad
ive had random people come up to be asking me to make them a website, pretty weird. i get so many people wanting websites, i tell them to come up with a basic design and some basic ideas and call me. either they're having trouble coming up with designs or having trouble dialing my number, but they just dont call

same thing happens to me man. sometimes i will see someone around campus that asked me to do a website and i will go out of my way to go talk to them and try to set up a time that we could meet and get something planned out or get numbers exchanged or whatever haha. I'm a poor college student, I'm tryin hard to get my money lol

Posted by prothoid on Jun-15-2006 05:41:

quote:
Originally posted by philliez
same thing happens to me man. sometimes i will see someone around campus that asked me to do a website and i will go out of my way to go talk to them and try to set up a time that we could meet and get something planned out or get numbers exchanged or whatever haha. I'm a poor college student, I'm tryin hard to get my money lol

im a poor high school student, working on getting a job. what school do you go to? a friend of mine goes to USF

Posted by philliez on Jun-15-2006 05:45:

quote:
Originally posted by kofrad
im a poor high school student, working on getting a job. what school do you go to? a friend of mine goes to USF

word? i live by USF, but I go to IADT (art/design school)

Posted by prothoid on Jun-15-2006 05:49:

quote:
Originally posted by philliez
word? i live by USF, but I go to IADT (art/design school)

what are you majoring in? i've been considering a degree in some sort of computer graphics field, it'll be either that or a computer science degree. i know both and could easily learn more in each subject, its just a matter of preferance i geuss.

Posted by LeopoldStotch on Jun-15-2006 06:00:

imo, there is a difference between computer graphics and computer science degree, depending on the college of course, and the professors that teach the course .

if you take computer graphics, most probably you would take a lot of classes taht make you know dreamwaver, flash, and the works . some drawing classes and a couple of math courses here and there . you would get lucky to take a computer graphics class where you would have to create your own opengl (graphical language), and draw graphics using algebraic and trigonometric functions . I took a class like this ( just the standard level. they offered an advanced level, which i couldn't do , due to unfortunate circumstances) . i really liked the class, and enjoyed the course work and history of graphics.

if you take computer science, the first two years you could smoke past them, imo. easy material. if you are well organized, and now the basics of what a programming language does , then you're fine . as long as you understand the logisitcs, you're cool. the next two years, i had fun implementing stuff like data structures (trees, sorted lists, algorithms, the such) , file systems, 3 tier web approaches and the such . that stuff entertains me. i guess i like to see a lot of work on my plate to keep me busy . haha .

so hopefully you have the same amount of fun i had in college.

edit* sorry to break out the true news, but there is a reason why guys like *cough* Nou *cough* can't make the cut for the second half of a college career .

Posted by prothoid on Jun-15-2006 08:55:

quote:
Originally posted by LeopoldStotch
imo, there is a difference between computer graphics and computer science degree, depending on the college of course, and the professors that teach the course .

if you take computer graphics, most probably you would take a lot of classes taht make you know dreamwaver, flash, and the works . some drawing classes and a couple of math courses here and there . you would get lucky to take a computer graphics class where you would have to create your own opengl (graphical language), and draw graphics using algebraic and trigonometric functions . I took a class like this ( just the standard level. they offered an advanced level, which i couldn't do , due to unfortunate circumstances) . i really liked the class, and enjoyed the course work and history of graphics.

if you take computer science, the first two years you could smoke past them, imo. easy material. if you are well organized, and now the basics of what a programming language does , then you're fine . as long as you understand the logisitcs, you're cool. the next two years, i had fun implementing stuff like data structures (trees, sorted lists, algorithms, the such) , file systems, 3 tier web approaches and the such . that stuff entertains me. i guess i like to see a lot of work on my plate to keep me busy . haha .

so hopefully you have the same amount of fun i had in college.

edit* sorry to break out the true news, but there is a reason why guys like *cough* Nou *cough* can't make the cut for the second half of a college career .

i know the differences between the degree and have experience in both fields. i just need to decide which degree i want, it will probably end up being the computer science. programming is more fun than digital graphics.