Re: Turner Audio website being re-furbished.



Andre Jute wrote:

> Before you *** up again, Patrick, a) correct the spelling of Mozart's
> name before all decent people ostracize you and b) read and understand
> these simple instructions carefully.

I really have got into real bother over spelling moatzart's name wrong!

I will try to get motesart's name right, eventually, in the fullness of time.

But hey, I said to myself when i gave up the building trade that if anything
makes me deaf
between now and becoming a smoke puff at the crematorium, it should be
Mozart.

And also consider that although my spilling isn't vury perfuct, not a living
sole
has told me over the last 4 years that any of the tech info at my site has
any mistakes.

So a t where it should not be is not real big worry to me.

>
>
> To make a *transportable netsite*:
>
> 1. Make a single folder on your own computer, call it Turneraudio or
> whatever you want.
>
> 2. Make a homepage and call it *only* index.html -- this is the page
> which opens by default if someone arrives on your site.
>
> 3. Put everything else, other pages, illustrations, etc, into this
> single folder. You can sort the materials into subfolders if you like
> but preferably not more than two layers deep, and the subfolder names
> should be short. The complicated, big, infinitely expandable Fiultra
> site is only two layers altogether, so there is no reason for your
> simple site not to be single-layer. Giving some thought to the names of
> pages and illustrations so that they are self-sorting like-to-like even
> in a long list is much less tiresome than trying to sort out a
> multilayer site when it goes wrong.

I take your points, and am working with a friend to make the folder/file
arrangement as simple
as can be without being too simple.

I had turneraudio.com.au as the entry folder with index.html.
Then i had a lot of other html pages linked off a folder called webpgs.html,
and the links as a result were a line of typing long.



>
>
> 4. Make the index.html page your design grid; work really hard on it.
> Make a copy of it and rename it template.html. Put a copy of your
> template somewhere safe and lock it.
>
> 5. Open template.html, rename it, add text and illustrations according
> to the grid and stylesheets on it. Link this page to index.html.Test
> each page locally by opening it in Explorer as you make it. Don't wait
> until the end, when you a single mistake will drop you into a large,
> confused mess.

You just lost me.

>
>
> 6. Repeat for all your other pages.
>
> 7. Download (FTP is good) all the contents to the single folder on your
> ISP where your site will be available to the public.

I am using CoreFTP for up/down loading and it seems to work the most
logically.
CuteFTP and WSpro and several others were awful.

>
>
> 8. When you want to alter a page, alter it locally, on your own hard
> disk, then drop that page into the ISP and overwrite the one already on
> the server. When you want to make a new page, make it locally, as
> above, test it locally, then drop it into the server with all its new
> illustrations.

I didn't get a CD writer till well after i had established the present site.

The site was due for re-furbishment about now, and a few link mistakes
when i just changed my hosting ISP have prodded me into action.
I am both poor, and time poor, but currently I am editing the whole site,
since
considerable other projects await having something published on them with
schemas and so on.
I will not attempt to supply some of the designs that I have produced in the
past
since I have had a dozen chassis made to suit an entire range of monoblocs.
I do not wish to make any more two channel amps which weigh 35Kgs.

>
>
> 9. The trick is to keep your head, keep it simple, work only on your
> master copy, test every step, test, test, test again, before you upload
> it.

I have used netscape composer 3 times now to produce what i thought seemed to
work
very well.
In the 4 last years i recieved only one complaint about a phono schematic
link that didn't seem to work.

A friend gave me Front Page to prepare the new version of the site.
He also prepared a copy of my site as an alternative to the
one I have as an exercize at IT training, but i still prefer a simple
plain text site, no bells and whistles.


> 10 Make an offboard security copy of the entire master folder onto CD
> or external hard disk. Keep it up to date.

I have a second HD now, so I didn't loose all the site when older HD crashed.

I also have a cd writer.

>
>
> HTH.
>
> A few personal tips. I have several complicated netsite creation
> programmes and I have actually looked into each one well enough to make
> a small site so that I could review the programme or decide it is too
> useless to review. However, for my own site I just make simple pages
> directly in MS Word (in a table with stylesheets, which is how CSS, the
> most sophisticated HTML procedure, actually works). It is years since I
> wrote a single line of HTML code but, if you still use Netscape, you
> might look into a wonderful facility it has for creating pages.

I don't have MS word. I only got W98se...
Just Netscape 4.7...

At the moment, when I transfer an old html page to a new Netscape
Composer blank page to make a wysiwyg new html page, the file created
is still iconed as an Internet Explorer page instead of a Netscape page.
I dunno why, or how it can be changed, or if it needs to be, if it works,
then why worry?

Thankyou for the tips, I will re-learn what i forgot during the last 4 years,

and learn a bit more as i go along....

Patrick Turner.

>
>
> Andre Jute
> http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/
>
> Patrick Turner wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Should anyone be having difficulties surfing my website,
> > I can understand; I have had troubles changing my web hosting ISP.
> >
> > Before last Xmas, I suffered HD failure, and after repairing the PC
> > I had troubles with the ISP who doesn't provide any telephone support
> > for settings etc, and so I moved my site from
> > cerebro.com.au to melbourneit.com.au, who have support 24/7,
> > and have given me 200MB of space for usd $136.00,
> > instead of the lousy 10MB for $157.00 plus a set up fee
> > that is so common amoung the locals here in the ACT.
> > Melbourne IT is a publically listed company which is licensed to accept
> > internet registrations, and not an association of "IC",( Internet
> > Cowboys.)
> >
> > But before changing ISP, I downloaded my site using Win HTTrack,
> > which seems to have been a mistake because now, after uploading
> > using CoreFTP ( the best of about 5 programs i tried ) ,
> > there are phantom images, ie, there are images listed in the file list
> > at the
> > host server, but have 0 byte size.
> > some HTML codes for links have become corrupted.
> > So much for using some ding-bat program to download the site
> >
> > So the time has come for me to place the patient on the bench
> > and redo all the links, and check each and every page and re-edit the
> > text
> > where necessary, so in a month I may have it all
> > back OK and with additions as i see fit to include.
> >
> > Regards to all of you who reside in the northern winter hemisphere
> > while I slave away in the heat to provide all with what I hope to be a
> > continuing
> > online resource for real tube craft interested persons who are not
> > "armchair solderers",
> > and who like to spend time really achieving something without
> > bull shitting all day at forums.
> >
> > Regards to all,
> >
> > Patrick Turner,
> >
> > http://www.turneraudio.com.au .......soon to be a little better.

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