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Contents 1 Parent Article 2 Can I edit my website without downloading it? 3 How do I edit the text of my web page? 4 Why won't my pictures show up?

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• KB / Getting Started / Building your website

Can I edit my website without downloading it?

If your plan has shell access you can telnet or SSH to your web directory. From there, you can use pico, vi, or emacs to edit your web pages.

With the recent addition of the WebFTP software for all accounts, you're now able to edit your webstie directly through your web browser. Just click on the 'Edit' link that appears next to the file that you'd like to edit.

How do I edit the text of my web page?

If you have a web page created by someone else, you can edit the text easily. Here's how:

1. Download your web page from your web directory to your computer. [how do I do that?]
2. The name of the main page should be "index.html" or "index.shtml". Open this page in your favorite text editor. [what's a text editor?]
3. At this point, it's always a good idea to save a copy of your file under another name (like "index2.html"), so if you make a mistake and can't figure out how to fix it, you'll have a backup.
4. Look for the text you want to change. Go ahead and change it.
5. Save your changes.
6. To see your page before you publish it, fire up your web browser [what's a browser?], and point it to the page you're working on (for example, C:\my_documents\mypage.html)
7. If you like how your page looks, upload it to your website. [how do I do that?]
8. To view your newly edited page on the web, go to your URL (ie; http://www.yourdomain.com), and refresh (reload) the page by pressing the "reload" button, or by pressing F5 on your keyboard. That's all there is to it!

Why won't my pictures show up?

There are several reasons your images may not be showing up on your web page. For the most part, it's easy to fix, so don't panic!

1. You haven't refreshed the web page: If you add an image to your web page, then try to view the page, it's possible that your browser is storing the old page that doesn't have the new image. Simply press F5 on your keyboard, or Refresh on your browser, and any changes you have made to the page will show up.
2. You're linking to an incorrectly capitalized filename. you-naked.jpg is not the same file as YoU-nAkEd.jpg
3. You have forgotten to ftp the image to your domain's directory. Hey, it happens to all of us sometimes.
4. You have ftp-ed the image into the wrong directory: This is easy to do, especially if you have subdirectories or multiple domains.
5. There's an error in your html code: Check your page's code. The link to the image should be something like this: &#60img src = "image.gif (or .jpeg or whatever)"&#62 if the image is in the same directory (folder) as the page where it will appear. &#60img src = "./directory/image.gif"&#62 if the image is in a different directory of the same domain. &#60img src = "http://www.website.com/image.gif"&#62 if you are linking to an image at a different website. If you have left off a quote mark, &#60, &#62, =, misspelled img src, or made any other kind of typo, the image won't show up.

These are the main reasons images don't show up on your pages. If you have tried all of these things, and think there might be a problem with your account, our Technical Support Team will be happy to help!