Finding and adding pages

[Getting Smarter Slowly]

I hate to be a royal P.I.T.A. BUT HERE GOES... My ISP installed 2.2 for me.

I am handicapped with nothing better to do with my time then learn so please be patient with me.

I am probably the worst nightmare for many "REAL" programmers (unlike myself)! I have only used FrontPage (I know, "YUCK!!!) to design info pages like for our Fire Department & (in the works) our Police Department in this city & many more info pages for others. I am used to WYSIWYG but I am catching onto some of the coding & how it works because I have played with HTML inside FP.

While playing in OSC I have managed to "fill in the blanks" for the store name & that kind of info. Filling in the products wasn't too hard to figure out either, matter of fact that is rather easy & straight forward.

Here is my delima:

I am looking for pages under INFORMATION like Shipping & Returns or Privacy Policy & would like to put in a page like ABOUT US. Heck I would like to find the page where they put in the OSC logo.

I can't figure out where to put images like the OS Commerce logo to change it to the logo I have. If I could just start with some of these answers that would keep me busy for a while.

OH! One more thing: when I am in FTP Pro & I want to look at a page, in view, it's in jibberish but if I copy that page & put it into FP in the HTML section I can read it. Is there a way to look at the "VIEW" in the written code instead of jibberish?

[♥mdtaylorlrim]

Take a little advice here.... don't start with the information pages, or dressing it up to look attractive. Start with security. You should password protect the entire site until the security patches are in place. Otherwise you will wake up one morning and find your site hacked.

 

Dump front page and fine a basic php editor. One that has the line numbers marked for you. Coding php is not a job for WYSIWYG editors. Sorry, you will have to learn the php coding conventions.

 

It's going to take a while but in the end it will all be worth it.

[recoil-jay]

You can't view any of the pages in "design view" unless you use the STS addon and make your own.

[Getting Smarter Slowly]

I am getting dangerous already.

I found some of the things I need and I am playing now.

I created a table w/3 columns and in the center of the middle I have this code (BTW I have my pics in file: lgpc_pics)

<td><td style="padding-left: 50; padding-right: 50"><center><img border="0"> <src="file:lgpc_pics/blue_ribbons.jpg" width="160" height="129"></center></td>

I have the box that shows where the picture is "supposed" to be but the pic doesn't show up.

mdtaylorlrim

Tomorrow (Oops! Today) I will attack the security issues that you suggested. Thank you VERY much!

[♥mdtaylorlrim]

This: <src="file:lgpc_pics/blue_ribbons.jpg"> looks like it was put there by an html editor. What this will attempt to do is to get the image off of the users client computer and not the web server. Use this:

 

<src="lgpc_pics/blue_ribbons.jpg"

[Getting Smarter Slowly]

The reason I bring this up is to possibly help some other newbie.

Found out what my problem was. (Everything was written in jibberish)

In FTP PRO the text editor would be bring up notepad.exe & that is why I couldn't read any files correctly. I changed the text editor to wordpad & it now comes up correctly. Sure beats reading every file in FrontPage HTML.