OK...I've been a plonker :blush:

I've made my new website (well almost) in Dreamweaver but i opted to save each page in a folder on my desktop for easy access with FTP etc...
I've come to insert all the links and when i have linked the pages together the file path has my name in it (I know...I know, I'm thick)

I have changed the registered owner's name in the registry to Vidster and that has worked fine but i still cannot create a new folder without my name being there.

Does anyone know of a way for me to either:
Remove my name from the file path
Or:
Maybe move the files (pages) back in to Dreamweaver and create a root folder for them.

I'm going to stop typing now because i'm confusing myself again :?

would guess that the file references within Dreamweaver are something like

c:/....../..../vidster/xyz.htm etc

All I would do personally is to remove the references as the root directory of the webserver will obviously not recognise the folder or the c: reference

what I mean is for example

say an index file is stored on your pc as

c:\documents and settings\vidster\index,htm

delete everything upto the index.htm and upload to your webserver.

Am getting myself confused now..lol

I see where your coming from yammy but these files are in a folder on my desktop. I don't know of a way to change the file path and still be able to open the files (for editing etc..)


They're not actually in a root folder :(

Originally posted by vidster
OK...I've been a plonker :blush:

I've made my new website (well almost) in Dreamweaver but i opted to save each page in a folder on my desktop for easy access with FTP etc...
I've come to insert all the links and when i have linked the pages together the file path has my name in it (I know...I know, I'm thick)

I have changed the registered owner's name in the registry to Vidster and that has worked fine but i still cannot create a new folder without my name being there.

Does anyone know of a way for me to either:
Remove my name from the file path
Or:
Maybe move the files (pages) back in to Dreamweaver and create a root folder for them.

I'm going to stop typing now because i'm confusing myself again :?


Create a new folder in Explorer then make a copy of every page (including images) of your website in the newly created folder.

Next open DW and create a new site using your newly created folder as the site root when defining. DW will then create a local cache and set up the links etc automatically.



(It's far easier to show this, than it is to explain in text;))!

okay so why don't you recreate the subfolders on the webserver so that they mirror your folder on the desktop..but still remove the reference upto the folder where the top level folder starts ?

Originally posted by sccsux

Create a new folder in Explorer then make a copy of every page (including images) of your website in the newly created folder.

Next open DW and create a new site using your newly created folder as the site root when defining. DW will then create a local cache and set up the links etc automatically.



(It's far easier to show this, than it is to explain in text)!

I almost understood that sccsux, I'll try it when i get back from walking the dog ;)

Originally posted by yammy
okay so why don't you recreate the subfolders on the webserver so that they mirror your folder on the desktop..but still remove the reference upto the folder where the top level folder starts ?

It took me 3 attempts to get the first website uploaded yammy :hihi: I dare not play with it once it's uploaded (although i might if i can't work out how to implement sccsux's advice)

Thank's for the advice guy's :thumbsup:

Think I did this once, then I realised I didn't set up the file paths in 'manage sites' peoperly.

On my site, the file path for the index is \\Server\folder1\folder2\folder3\. When you set up a site you tell DW that this is where your files are and then it automatically set all the other folders relative to that as I created them.

Have you got all the paths and the site correctly set up in the site manager?

Originally posted by Lurch
Think I did this once, then I realised I didn't set up the file paths in 'manage sites' peoperly.

On my site, the file path for the index is \\Server\folder1\folder2\folder3\. When you set up a site you tell DW that this is where your files are and then it automatically set all the other folders relative to that as I created them.

Have you got all the paths and the site correctly set up in the site manager?

I had nothing set up in site manager that i know of :?

After thinking about it, i decided to start from scratch in Dreamweaver. This way i can create a template and the rest i can just copy/paste in to the relevant pages.

No doubt i'll be asking you guys how to use a template next :hihi:

Thanks again :thumbsup:

site manager is the way forward will even change links within your pages if you move files arround.

Originally posted by vidster
After thinking about it, i decided to start from scratch in Dreamweaver. This way i can create a template and the rest i can just copy/paste in to the relevant pages.
That's something like what I did, I didn't find out how to use the site manager untill after I started building the site. Can't remember exactly how I did it but I think DW was clever enough to work out what I'd done and sort it all out itself once I'd told it what the local root folder was.