Question:
How to add another feature to my website?
Nene
2010-01-25 09:05:00 UTC
Hello all, my main issue is i cant add another feature to my website. And i really need some advise here, i gave up searching for the answer on google..

A freelance web designer created my website 2 years ago and we dont have a contact anymore. So i was trying to update the website myself, all my website has right now is HOME, BLOG,VIDEO,GALLERY AND INFO. I'd like to add another feature which is a NEWS which i can put news myself (not the news on tv or something)
My hosting is with bluehost, and i have macromedia dreamweaver for editing it.

Pls help,any advise is great...
Four answers:
Samwise
2010-01-25 09:31:02 UTC
I take it you have some sort of navigation section with the features listed. The question is how that navigation is implemented.



If it only appears on one page, you'd probably just have to add to that page. But usually the navigation stuff appears on multiple pages, so the next question is how it's implemented. Check the file extensions: if the page names end in .htm or .html, then each page probably has a separate copy of the navigation and you'd need to edit it in each page's source code.



If you don't have the source code, download a full copy of it to your own computer and keep a development copy there from now on. I have a "Websites" folder with subfolders for each site I maintain, plus a few I've never actually deployed but have played with. You should have a backup copy of everything on your website, including all the subfolders with images and such. Bluehost has an "unlimited FTP" utility that's good for large-scale copying onto or off the website; you need to be a bit careful about whether a file is text (.htm, .html, .css, .js, .php) or binary (.gif, .jpg, .doc) to make sure it transfers correctly.



If your pages are PHP (.php), which Bluehost does support, it's dollars to donuts that your navigation is contained in some accessory PHP file and incorporated on each page by calling it. How that's done depends on the programmer; my pages that do this have code in them, among the HTML, that looks like this:




require 'navbar.php';

navgen('documnts.php');

?>



The file that's named in the "require" call contains my navigation code; the navgen() function is called to run the code. If it's PHP, you might need to learn the language or find someone who knows it to help. Also, unless you've got server code with PHP support installed on your own computer, you won't be able to test PHP modifications there; you'll have to try them out on the website itself. (If you don't know exactly what you're doing with the language, that's obviously a bit risky; you should keep an unmodified copy handy to replace your new version with if it appears to have any problems.)



Next day:

Dropped in to check on the status of this. It sounds likely that the navigation is encoded in PHP. (It occurred to me that it might also be generated in JavaScript, but if the whole site is PHP, that's unlikely.) You probably would be best off getting a PHP programmer to work on it



Your best method of posting your website here is simply to go to its home page and then copy the address from your browser's Address field and paste it in here. We might be able to pull enough source to figure out what file generates the navigation entries. But it's best maintained by someone who (a) knows what they're doing and (b) has a copy of all the code on the site, and that's more work than you should ask to be done by respondents here.



You could also learn (a) HTML, (b) CSS, and (c) PHP yourself. That's not as hard as it sounds.
2010-01-25 09:33:08 UTC
Either write the page for the News, upload it to the site and add a link to it in your menus, or use a blog or other CMS software to redo the site to something you can handle without a designer doing it for you. (And lose Dreamweaver - that's like a 6 cylinder motorcycle with training wheels. If you can't learn enough HTML and CSS to write your own site, use a CMS. Try WordPress - it can be turned into almost any kind of site by adding plugins, without knowing a single line of code. http://www.wordpress.org/ )
2016-05-26 09:58:23 UTC
MS Office Live Small Business will let you create password protected pages on your website for different users, requiring a log in.
spk
2010-01-25 21:41:54 UTC
What is your website? One of us can look at the source and tell you from there.


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