nellipope
Member
How to get it so wrong!
You got to ask yourself, what a designer is doing trying to be a web designer, so I will apologise now, not only for being somewhat of an idiot, but also for probably posting in the wrong thread / forum / page. . . it's been a long day.
I'm a graphic designer, who in desperation has published a few websites. I use Adobe Muse with Business Catalyst . . . I know you're cringing right now. But until now this has been fine.
I put a website together for a local band, but they really wanted to continue using their existing host. There's a clue there, they already have a website. I thought, how hard can ftp be? Well it's not worked.
Breakdown of events:
Client doesn't like their website, they ask me to knock up a new one.
Client really likes my new website, gives me the ftp settings to overwrite their existing one. They give me Hostname, Username, Password.
I open Muse
I log into the ftp server . . . whoo hoo . . . nearly there!
Muse then asks me for Site URL, Folder.
. . . I'm not sure about the Folder, the client didn't provide one, so I contact FASTHOST, they tell me to leave it blank.
I click the go button, and , nothing, the original site is still there, except now it has my site attached to it: for instance if I go to the site's home page the original site is still visible, however if I type /index.html then you can my site.
Should the client delete the old site first, what on earth happened?
I picked the wrong day to give up wine .
You got to ask yourself, what a designer is doing trying to be a web designer, so I will apologise now, not only for being somewhat of an idiot, but also for probably posting in the wrong thread / forum / page. . . it's been a long day.
I'm a graphic designer, who in desperation has published a few websites. I use Adobe Muse with Business Catalyst . . . I know you're cringing right now. But until now this has been fine.
I put a website together for a local band, but they really wanted to continue using their existing host. There's a clue there, they already have a website. I thought, how hard can ftp be? Well it's not worked.
Breakdown of events:
Client doesn't like their website, they ask me to knock up a new one.
Client really likes my new website, gives me the ftp settings to overwrite their existing one. They give me Hostname, Username, Password.
I open Muse
I log into the ftp server . . . whoo hoo . . . nearly there!
Muse then asks me for Site URL, Folder.
. . . I'm not sure about the Folder, the client didn't provide one, so I contact FASTHOST, they tell me to leave it blank.
I click the go button, and , nothing, the original site is still there, except now it has my site attached to it: for instance if I go to the site's home page the original site is still visible, however if I type /index.html then you can my site.
Should the client delete the old site first, what on earth happened?
I picked the wrong day to give up wine .