Uploading website using FTP - migrating between web hosting providers

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I have started a business for which I designed a website using the hosting provider's template (Wooza). I then asked GridHost to transfer my website/domain to them naively thinking the website content would also automatically be transferred. I have asked GridHost if they don't have a migration service, problem is I have already changed the nameservers to the new ones given to me by GridHost(don't know if this matters) so my website is blank at the moment. Gridhost take 24hours to respond so I cant wait that log every time I submit a support ticket so I have to resolve this issue myself.

Fortunately I saved each of my webpages before I requested the transfer so I have all my web pages saved in HTML format including the folder files. However when I use FTP program(CoreFTP) to upload these files my website comes up with just the skeleton.

I have never done any HTML programming in my life but I suspect that the website may be referencing to directories or files that only my old host(Wooza) has on their server. When I look at the source code:

<html><head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"><!--Tempdesignbeginmeta--><title>Home</title>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="../EasyScan-Home_files/common.css">


The bold part is where I believe the issue is because when I click on it it says <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL /EasyScan-Home_files/hpstyle.css was not found on this server.</p>
<p>Additionally, a 404 Not Found
error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.</p>
</body></html>.

Since I saved the webpages I do have a folder on my local computer called Easyscan_Home_files and I did upload this folder/directory and all others to public_html using CoreFTP. Therefore I do have a directory o my domain called EasyScan-Home_files and it certainly contains the common.css and the hpstyle.css files in it.

So what could possibly be the problem?
 
talentedone said:
I have started a business for which I designed a website using the hosting provider's template (Wooza). I then asked GridHost to transfer my website/domain to them naively thinking the website content would also automatically be transferred. I have asked GridHost if they don't have a migration service, problem is I have already changed the nameservers to the new ones given to me by GridHost(don't know if this matters) so my website is blank at the moment. Gridhost take 24hours to respond so I cant wait that log every time I submit a support ticket so I have to resolve this issue myself.

Fortunately I saved each of my webpages before I requested the transfer so I have all my web pages saved in HTML format including the folder files. However when I use FTP program(CoreFTP) to upload these files my website comes up with just the skeleton.

I have never done any HTML programming in my life but I suspect that the website may be referencing to directories or files that only my old host(Wooza) has on their server. When I look at the source code:

<html><head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"><!--Tempdesignbeginmeta--><title>Home</title>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="../EasyScan-Home_files/common.css">


The bold part is where I believe the issue is because when I click on it it says <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL /EasyScan-Home_files/hpstyle.css was not found on this server.</p>
<p>Additionally, a 404 Not Found
error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.</p>
</body></html>.

Since I saved the webpages I do have a folder on my local computer called Easyscan_Home_files and I did upload this folder/directory and all others to public_html using CoreFTP. Therefore I do have a directory o my domain called EasyScan-Home_files and it certainly contains the common.css and the hpstyle.css files in it.

So what could possibly be the problem?
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What does the folder structure look like? The ../ means it's going back one folder, so if your index.html and the EasyScan-Home_files folder are both in public_html it's not going to find it.

Without knowing more it's not possible to give a definitive answer though.
 
Please also confirm that once uploaded to the public_html directory the html files are as good as published i.e. accessible to all viewers. In other words I dont need to press a "Publish website" button somewhere
 
Some improvement I can actually see the home page now www.easyscan.co.za but the links are not working so I'll have to read the source code again. Really starting to love the HTML source code thing it's like following a story. Any suggestions to ease my pain are welcome, remember I dont have programming experience.

How are the links(web adress) actualy generated for each page once you have uploaded it? Suppose it goes back to mt question about a "Publish website" button. If there wasone I would just click on it and the web adress for the html file would be automatically generated.
 
Okay the About link/page is working now but the background images are not loading
 
Okay just realise I have to the the exact same thing I did for the home page for all the pages what a mess
 
Right! Done! www.easyscan.co.za What do you guys think? I just need to change the ugly red backgound that came with the template and I'm done. Pity its not just one image but a whole bunch of red images. Anyone know a quick way to change this background to baby blue or another catchy background please help
 
talentedone said:
Right! Done! www.easyscan.co.za What do you guys think? I just need to change the ugly red backgound that came with the template and I'm done. Pity its not just one image but a whole bunch of red images. Anyone know a quick way to change this background to baby blue or another catchy background please help
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Please do your business a favour... and get it professionally designed.

PM for more info if you're interested.
 
Glad you got it working.

You really should consider modernising your website. No offence but I for one wouldn't use a service if I went to a website like this.

This is such an easy thing to do these days, your host probably has something like Softaculous, you can install Wordpress in about 5 minutes and install a nice looking template.
 
The important thing is that I learnt some HTML and thus I wont need an army of consultants everytime something goes wrong with the website or if I need to do an update.

Now that I have a reasonable understanding, I can simply copy another great website, modify the source code and voila I have a "professionally designed" website for FREE
 
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talentedone said:
The important thing is that I learnt some HTML and thus I wont need an army of consultants everytime something goes wrong with the website or if I need to do an update.

Now that I have a reasonable understanding, I can simply copy another great website, modify the source code and voila I have a "professionally designed" website for FREE
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Just use Wordpress, it's free. Not sure what you mean by "copy another great website," but you know that would constitute copyright infringement in many cases?
 
I am obviously not a well-moneyed individual otherwise I would have shelled out 3000 for a flashy one. The website is just for information purposes needless to say the colour scheme needs to change but that can be remedied. I have seen a lot of self-made websites out there and think this one is average. I have not yet added stuff that I am planning to add like videos, flash content etc

It is the dark red colour of the template that is annoying me, other wise I wanted it simple but attractive
 
Why don't you create a WordPress website. It's free and easy. Just go to WordPress
Com

There are thousands of themes out there.
 
As you know I'm building a website (beginner) http://www.easyscan.co.za How can I remove the gif properties in the source code of the navigation bar of my web page? I just want to be left with the plain button images ("Home", "About", "Our Services", "Enquiries") with no mouseover effects. I tried removing the mouse over effect but failed miserably. I suspect it is this part of the code:



<tbody><tr>
<!--Tempdesignbeginhomenavig1--> <td background="index_files/ngtile1.jpg" valign="top">
<a href="http://www.easyscan.co.za/About.html" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('navig2','','img/hp/navig/ngr2.gif',1)" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()"><img alt="" name="navig2" src="index_files/ng2.gif" border="0" height="45" width="116"></a></td><!--Tempdesignendhomenavig1-->
<!--Tempdesignbeginhomenavig2--><td background="index_files/ngtile2.jpg" valign="top">
<a href="http://www.easyscan.co.za/Our%20Services.html" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('navig4','','img/hp/navig/ngr4.gif',1)" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()"><img alt="" name="navig4" src="index_files/ng4.gif" border="0" height="45" width="156"></a></td><!--Tempdesignendhomenavig2-->
<!--Tempdesignbeginhomenavig3--><td background="index_files/ngtile3.jpg" valign="top">
<a href="http://www.easyscan.co.za/Our%20Cause.html" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('navig5','','img/hp/navig/ngr5.gif',1)" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()"><img alt="" name="navig5" src="index_files/ng5.gif" border="0" height="45" width="156"></a></td><!--Tempdesignendhomenavig3-->
<!--Tempdesignbeginhomenavig4--><td background="index_files/ngtile4.jpg" valign="top">
<a href="http://www.easyscan.co.za/Enquiries.html" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('navig17','','img/hp/navig/ngr17.gif',1)" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()"><img alt="" name="navig17" src="index_files/ng17.gif" border="0" height="45" width="156"></a></td><!--Tempdesignendhomenavig4-->
<!--Tempdesignbeginhomenavig5--><td background="index_files/ngtile5.jpg" valign="top">
<img alt="" name="" src="index_files/ba.gif" border="0" height="45" width="156"></td>
<!--Tempdesignendhomenavig5--> </tr>
 
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Seriously , dont waist your time fixing that site , like suggested use wordpress and a free theme , will look 1000* times better .
pm i can install it for you if you cant
 
By the way I tried Wordpress but did not like any of their templates not to mention they dashboard was a bit hard to navigate vs blogspot
 
I've started using Adobe Dreaweaver makes it less painful since I can drag and drop
 
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