Re: FN-FORUM: New to the world of freelancing!

date posted 4th September 2006 15:34

On Monday 04 September 2006 15:16, Clare Plumtree wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm new to this freelancing gig (just out of uni). At the moment I'm
> working on updating my brothers website for his pub, thing is I'm
> coding it all in html, css and javascript, and the host will only let
> him upload in ftp format.
"ftp format" is a bit misleading. Better to say "only let him upload /using/
ftp" as FTP is a protocol.

Do you mean "how do I upload stuff using FTP?". If so, it depends what
platform you're on. Windows and UNIXes all have the ftp command. Otherwise,
on Windows, you can use Explorer and just go
to [EMAIL REMOVED] and copy stuff around or use a
tool like FileZilla.

> Jut wondered what the best way to do this
> would be and how easy would it be to do the upkeep of the site to
> update things and add new content?
If you're hand-crafting and hard-coding HTML documents then the only way to
update the content is by editing the HTML documents. One strategy you can
adopt to help avoid errors is to keep as much logic and style information out
of your HTML documents as possible (i.e. keep it in your CSS and JS files).
And try only to have content in your HTML documents. Another stategy is to
encode content in a specifically content oriented markup like XML and use
XSLT to generate your HTML documents. Thats what I often do, but it does mean
learning XSLT...

Cheers,
Richard
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