Help, I am quite good at computers infact I'm the IT person at work and can network up a storm but I have no idea about HTML. I want to use one of the templates, I have uploaded the template nothing happens. I have downloaded it but can't fiugure out how to upload or edit.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Kyra

I am having the same problem.. I have about 10 templates I have downloaded but I cant get any to work. I can use pre fabed templates.. Any help would be greatly appreciated..........

Kyra and Lee,

The Bravenet templates are fairly easy to work with. When you get them from the Template Gallery, you have the option of uploading them to your web site or downloading them to your local hard drive. When you download them they are usually in ZIP format. This is because they contain the HTML file and a folder that contains support files. Like images and CSS files.

If you upload the template directly to your web site, you can choose the name you want, and whether you want the support files. I don't know why you wouldn't want them, but there is a choice. This should give you a HTML file and a folder with the support files. Lets say you uploaded the template to the root directory of your site, and used the name "my_template.html". You will be able to see it immediately on your web site if you use a URL like:

http://[your site name]/my_template.html

As long as your file name doesn't clash with other files on your site, the shouldn't be any problem. If you then want this template to be your default home page, rename it to "index.html". For on-line editing, you can use the Text and Visual editors available in the File Manager. Avoid the temptation to use the Website Wizard. The Website Wizard can not work with uploaded templates and will only cause confusion and heart ache.

Templates downloaded to your local hard drive will need to be UnZipped, but then they can be viewed from any local browser with "File --> Open". Or, the HTML file can be read into any web page design package and edited. Some packages that people use are FrontPage, Dreamweaver, and many more. You can use Netscape's Composer and even a text editor, if you know HTML.

If you did all your editing on your local hard drive, you can then get your files to your web site with any FTP program. Many of the design packages have this built in. Your Bravenet Account Manager also offers a on-line FTP program called the "ftp applet". However, configured properly, you can easily use Internet Explorer to move your files to/from your web site.

Thnaks for you help but I am still having a big headache. I found the downloaded template on the file manager and was able to edit it somewhat. However The heading at the top still says your site name herae and the tabs on the side you can click on but i cant put in any text, I also cant figure out how to make new pages and link it to home page and last and most important I cant get it to upload from file manager to show on my webpage, my web page has an error message. But when i click on the view or edit button on the template it shows the correct address.

I have know idea what I'm doing but I'm trying to learn

The error message that I see tells me that you do not have a "index.html" file on your site. By default, when a visitor connects to your site, the server looks for a file named "index.html" or "index.htm". The file you want to be your home page, needs to be name this way. You can use the file manager to rename the file you want. Once you rename it, you may need to delete your Temporary Internet Files and force your browser to refresh. Otherwise your browser might still show you old data.

On many of the available templates, the headers and buttons are actually made from images. The problem is that Bravenet does not offer any image editing utilities. They intend for you to download them to your local hard drive and edit them with a graphic editor. The most common one for people to use is Photo Shop.

An option to buying graphic software is to do it on-line. There are several web sites that allow you to do some graphic editing on-line and then transfer it to your web site. One good place would be The GIFWorks. There you can, as long as you are very careful with the image sizes, create replacements for your templates images and button images. Another place is GRSites.com. On GRSites you can upload your button images and add text. Just make sure you adjust for the correct button image sizes. You can iterate all you want until you get it the way you want, and then you can generate a dozen new buttons in just a few minutes.

In mentioned it several times now, but it is very important that you pay attention to the image sizes. If you error on the image sizes it could throw the whole template out of whack.

I have before the same problem but I think you can only do something with downl. template when you work with file manager and ftp (NOT wizard-or I´m wrong )

You are correct, templates should only be managed from the File Manager. Templates can not be uploaded and used with the Website Wizards.

Hi. I downloaded a template and have had good success changing images, adding text etc. I am having trouble hyperlinking the buttons to other pages. I'm used to the individual buttons being enclosed by >td &

























Can someone help me with an example with one of the buttons hyperlinked to another page? ie 2ndpage.html?
Thanks.

Sorry about the previous message. It seems my html example got messed up. Simply put, all my buttons are enclosed in a table (

Grrrrrr...