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| Hauk |
 Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 6:14 pm |
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Location: Na Sceiri, gContae Fhiongail.
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Moved jobs there in January. Started working for a web content management company in town. Much better job than the last job. A lot more exposure to web applications. Getting a lot of hands on experience with things like MySQL, DB2, MS SQL and Oracle.
Doing a bit of Python in my spare time. Mostly writing bots for IRC.
I took a look at Android dev a while back and I was very impressed with the development environment in Eclipse. I've been meaning to look into it a bit more. I've text file on my computer with random ideas I'd like to make into apps, but just don't have time!
Also we're hiring a Java developer if anyone knows anybody looking for a job. |
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| spoderman01 |
| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:10 am |
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| Have a Java course coming up in Apr with professional.ie in Cork. Anyone ever used them before? |
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| thejuice |
| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 2:47 pm |
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so about 9 months on from my last post here and my website is still in its box collecting dust.
I'm confused. GoDaddy has its own FTP file manager. Yet they are recommending I use Filezilla to host my content, but is that not what their FTP file manager is for?
This internet craic is a load of scheiße. [/url] |
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| Bane |
| Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 2:04 pm |
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| Are you looking for hosting space or what?? |
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| Barrytron |
| Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 2:49 pm |
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Quote: Yet they are recommending I use Filezilla to host my content
Sure they don't just mean access it? |
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| thejuice |
| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:15 am |
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Barry et Barry.
Forgive me for confusing things. I'm a complete novice.
I have some images and graphics already uploaded onto an FTP manager with GoDaddy.
Hosting/Accessing seemed to me to be part of the same process. i.e. Hosted somewhere accessible to online users.
I enrolled in a 5 week course to learn how to do this and they cancelled it as I was the only one.  |
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| Bane |
| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:37 am |
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Ok, well you need two things for a Web site: a domain and some Web hosting. I've only used GoDaddy for purchasing a domain (www.etc.com) so I don't have any experience with them for hosting.
When you purchase Web hosting (of whatever provider), you generally receive a confirmation e-mail with your login details and details of two nameservers along with other information such as your FTP username and password. You might also have to log into your Web hosting package to retrieve this sort of information.
You then log into your GoDaddy account and change the nameservers of the domain you purchased (www.etc.com) to the ones you received in the confirmation e-mail. Save your changes and then give it a maximum of 24 hours for the nameserver changes to propagate throughout the Internet.
So, your domain (www.etc.com) is now linked to your Web hosting. Your next step is to download an FTP manager (also known as an FTP client) and use it to connect to your Web hosting. You should have received the details you need (ftp server name, username and password) in either the confirmation e-mail when you purchased your Web hosting, or if you log into your Web hosting they should be displayed on some "account information page".
If you've successfully used the FTP client (Filezilla for example) to connect to your hosting, you should have a Windows filesystem type interface to drag and drop files from your computer to the Web hosting. There's an important folder in your Web hosting called public_html (it's also sometimes called Web, or public or something) and it's THIS folder you need to drop your files in. If you drop for example an image called logo.jpg into it, you will be able to access it by visiting http://www.etc.com/logo.jpg
Drop me a PM with some details if you need any help mate. |
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| thejuice |
| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:22 am |
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Thanks Barry,
That will keep me busy......
....till next year. |
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| chewy |
| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:49 am |
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| Do you have any designs of what you'd like the site to look like? From what you've said it sounds like you'd want some sort of CMS (Content Management) capability, and some sort of forum. |
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| thejuice |
| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 5:08 pm |
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I have an idea of what it will look like. I'll send them on to you later.
To start of with I'd like users to submit their business details through an online form and I would then create a page for them on my site. With a google map showing location.
Perhaps in the future they could edit their entries themselves. |
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| chewy |
| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 7:50 pm |
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| You definitely want a CMS then. I've guessing that you'll be using PHP since most hosted sites use that technology. |
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| LordCrumb |
| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 9:45 am |
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You probably don't need filezilla or any specific ftp client to upload files to your server, its just way faster than doing it through a browser(which also acts as a ftp client when logged on to your server space). The windows style layout of filezilla is better designed for dragging files to and from the server. There is probably additional security and other stuff you can add with filezilla when you ftp files. Never bothered much with that myself.
Typical multiple redundancy when it comes to achieving anything with computers. |
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| Barrytron |
| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 12:47 pm |
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Yo if you use something like Wordpress I don't even see why you'd need an FTP client?
Just add everything in the very user-friendly back end. Don't be intimidated dude it's piss easy, just get an easy-to-use CMS and hook it up to godaddy. Then just build your site the way you want, like adding your images etc to the that rather than going in through an FTP. Submit forms etc would just be plugins, hardly any need to write any code, except for maybe some CSS stuff to change layout bits here and there. Seriously your idea sounds pretty straight forward and doable.
There's a run-down of them here that might be useful
http://spyrestudios.com/free-content-management-systems/ |
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| Hauk |
| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:44 am |
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| Bane |
| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:25 am |
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| That's deadly! I've always been fascinated by the original Prince of Persia and how ahead of its time it seemed to be. |
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