Dreamweaver help

lclark · 03-18-2006, 11:24 AM

since there is no dreamweaver place so ill ask here.

I am trying to connect through dreamweaver and i am following the directions that are provided on the member pages but i still cant connect. i keep getting an ftp error that states my password or login is incorrect, i know it isnt. any thoughts???

i am also having problems with the rollovers and publishing, if someone can help id appreciate it.

thanks alot

wildjokerdesign · 03-19-2006, 06:07 AM

Which instructions are you following? Did you find them here in the forum? I know there was a post at one time and I even went through and tried it out on one of my accounts. I would have to review what I did. Vaugely I remember you had to also have putty installed on your computer.

wildjokerdesign · 03-19-2006, 06:14 AM

Opps I was wrong on the putty thing. I think that was for being able to connect to the database. Where you following the instructions found here: http://forums.westhost.com/showthread.php?t=6562

If should be pretty straight forward. Maybe the username is off?

lclark · 03-21-2006, 06:55 AM

i went over the link you sent me ( thanks) but i cant get past the username/password. i know its correct but it still wont let me. i up load manually but it would be nice to beable to have it up load for me.

wildjokerdesign · 03-21-2006, 07:49 AM

Maybe these screenshots will help. Not sure what order they will display in but one is Dreamweaver MX and the other is Dreamweaver 4. Do you have any firewalls or security programs running on your computer?

lclark · 03-21-2006, 08:02 AM

thats a good point i have aol doing its crapy stuff, ill stop that and try again

lclark · 03-21-2006, 08:54 AM

now im having problems up loading my files. i have them on the server but they are still pointing to my computer. you can see the template and the wording but my rollovers arent showing up.

www.tutorialhouse.com

thanks

wildjokerdesign · 03-21-2006, 10:15 AM

What version of Dreamweaver are you useing again? Do you have MSN messenger or Yahoo? Might be easier to do a chat.

lclark · 03-21-2006, 10:20 AM

i can chat, in about 10 minutes

i am using dw mx 2004, i used the live chat help and he said that he could see my rollover images, even though i still cant, and that the reason was that the a href "#" was the problem, instead of # it should be the url. now when i look at my other site, it has a href"#" and it is fine

thanks again

wildjokerdesign · 03-21-2006, 10:33 AM

Well I see what he is saying about the href tag. You have your links set to # and the mouseover attached to them when you should have the mouseover attached to the images.
This:

HTML Code:

<a href="#" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('photoshop','','images/butt_01-over.jpg',1)"><img src="images/butt_01.jpg" name="photoshop" width="160" height="25" border="0"></a>

Should be This:

HTML Code:

<a href="/path/to/page.html"><img src="images/butt_01.jpg" name="photoshop" width="160" height="25" border="0" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('photoshop','','images/butt_01-over.jpg',1)"></a>

Now granted if you did not want the image to be clickable to take them to the page then you could put # in the href value of the <a> tag but I think you want them to be able to go to the page.

The other issue of pointing to the directories on your computer I think has to do with how you defined the site. Not sure how you got it that way

but I will go and see if I can reproduce the problem on one of my installs. I also need to play with the template function since that is something I never use.