Setting up a WebSite

[Soniccat]

Boy is this new to me, I guess I have to figure it out if I want to have my own Website. I am a complete novice when it comes to doing html and doing mps downloading from my site.

Anybody recomend some reading on how to do this? I got as far as putting a header at my site but can't seem to figure out how to get my mp3 to be accesable for downloading. I figure it is going to take me some time to build the site but I at least wanted to be able to use it to post links to mp3 files I have uploaded.
Any advice will be appreciated.

[hjack]

hey Soniccat, not that i know much about it, just checked someones 'Page Source'

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<ahref="http://www.SonicCat.com/mp3/Invasion%20of%20the%20Wippersnapp ers.mp3/" ><b>InvasionOf</b> </a>

i think this will give something like
InvasionOf

[Soniccat]

Thanks hijack, at least that is a start. I tried doing that with tunes I had up at Ampcast but it just gave me a link to ampcast and a headache. Now I know the tags at least.

[Glassback]

Are you using just html, or a wisiwig?

[Har]

hey Soniccat, not that i know much about it, just checked someones 'Page Source'

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<ahref="http://www.SonicCat.com/mp3/Invasion%20of%20the%20Wippersnapp ers.mp3" ><b>InvasionOf</b> </a>

i think this will give something like
InvasionOf

Almost. ...there needs to be a space between "a" and "href", not "ahref"; and you'll want to ditch that trailing slash after the .mp3 in the filename. So in other words, like this:

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<a href="http://www.SonicCat.com/mp3/Invasion%20of%20the%20Wippersnappers.mp3"><b>InvasionOf</b></a>

...which will create a bolded hyperlink with the text "InvasionOf" pointing to the file "Invasion%20of%20the%20Wippersnappers.mp3"

(the "%20" in this filename is how spaces are URL-encoded)

Basically: anything between the opening "<a>" and closing "</a>" anchor tags will become a clickable link to the file set as the "href" attribute.

Sonic, feel free to PM me if you need any HTML help.

[Soniccat]

Glassback wrote

Are you using just html, or a wisiwig?

Now I am really confused, what is a wisiwig?

Currently using html in Max's HTML Beauty, backtracking on sites to view source code and trying to decifer the code for mp3. Just had some success at loading one file and it shows up and streams. Now I have to load it into my site to see if it works.

[Har]

Now I am really confused, what is a wisiwig?

wisiwig = WYSIWYG = "What You See Is What You Get"

[intel]

Thanks hijack, at least that is a start. I tried doing that with tunes I had up at Ampcast but it just gave me a link to ampcast and a headache. Now I know the tags at least.

just a head's up -- you can't deep link from Ampcast. the links might work at first, but they'll stop working after a few hours. the stream of random characters in the file name is generated every 8 hours or so to prevent deep linking.

so you know in the future, to avoid headaches.

[Glassback]

Yeah, sorry Sonic - ala the dreaded (but rather wonderful) Dreamweaver or the even more dreaded (but definitely not wonderful) Front Page.

[Soniccat]

Thanks Har, I think I understand now. Yes I will. I am going to mess with it some tonight to see if I can get the page up and if you are around tomorow I will PM you and ask some more questions. Thanks for the help.

[hjack]

hey Soniccat, not that i know much about it, just checked someones 'Page Source'

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<ahref="http://www.SonicCat.com/mp3/Invasion%20of%20the%20Wippersnapp ers.mp3" ><b>InvasionOf</b> </a>

i think this will give something like
InvasionOf

Almost. ...there needs to be a space between "a" and "href", not "ahref"; and you'll want to ditch that trailing slash after the .mp3 in the filename. So in other words, like this:

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<a href="http://www.SonicCat.com/mp3/Invasion%20of%20the%20Wippersnappers.mp3"><b>InvasionOf</b></a>

...which will create a bolded hyperlink with the text "InvasionOf" pointing to the file "Invasion%20of%20the%20Wippersnappers.mp3"

(the "%20" in this filename is how spaces are URL-encoded)

Basically: anything between the opening "<a>" and closing "</a>" anchor tags will become a clickable link to the file set as the "href" attribute.

Sonic, feel free to PM me if you need any HTML help.

ok Har thanks

[Soniccat]

intel wrote

just a head's up -- you can't deep link from Ampcast. the links might work at first, but they'll stop working after a few hours. the stream of random characters in the file name is generated every 8 hours or so to prevent deep linking.

so you know in the future, to avoid headaches

Yea I discovered that it worked for a short time now just get page not found Was mainly trying it out to see if I could figure it out. We learn best through example.

Glassback wrote

Yeah, sorry Sonic - ala the dreaded (but rather wonderful) Dreamweaver or the even more dreaded (but definitely not wonderful) Front Page.

Some else suggested that I get Dreamweaver but my finances can't afford it at the moment. I will probably have to get it at some point although I have Photoshop 7 and that may be enough for a start.

[haydxn]

i think it's a more rewarding experience if you stick at using something like HTML beauty.. that's what i'm using at the moment, deciding that if i use a notepad type program it may aswell make my life a *bit* easier!

of course there's nothing wrong with using an arrangement/wysiwyg program if the guts and bolts aren't so much of a concern to you.

if you get into it, tho, like i said it can be quite rewarding to do it by hand.

and also, if you do get into it, i strongly recommend you look at css if you plan on having more than a few pages, and having any kind of layout consisting of more than mere text.

feel free to give me a shout too if you need any help!

my website is http://haydxn.net - i'm still designing it at the moment so there's not any content up there for the next few days but if you fancy looking it's an example of using css to keep the html side of things limited to the actual content (rather than formatting/layout)

[Glassback]

You might find a lot of very useful info here:

http://www.w3schools.com/

[haydxn]

ooh, seconded that link. w3schools is an excellent resource; there's really no need to buy a book on something like html when there are sites like these to hand. of course books are great tho..