Having trouble templating to remote site.

[cooterbrown]

Hey!

I am very excited about my first foray into Joomla. Bought your product this morning and loaded it up into DW.

I went to the FTP site - which pre-exists in my Site Manager and also contains a fresh Joomla install, then went to the wizard and created base template files - which worked... only I couldn't find them.

They did show up buried in a folder, in my user, on my local hard drive.

I don't have a local site so I guess the toolkit did the best it could. And in retrospect - I understand that if it's doing something from scratch - it wouldn't know where to go.

However - I don't know what to do from here. Do I just FTP them to the site and go from there? Does it matter that they didn't originate there?

Or whenever I refresh - will I have to re-upload? Or once I open each file from the ftp location - it will understand what to do?

I'm a Joomla Noob - and am sort of stalling out of the gate, any help is appreciated.

[admin]

Hi cooterbrown,

When setting up a new Dreamweaver site you need to have a local copy of your files.
Then files are uploaded to your web server. Every time you make a change you would like to see live you
Would upload / ftp those files.

It does not matter that you don’t have a local server it just matters that you have local files.
They can be in your “mydoc” folder or in another drive that’s fine.

Example

Location of my first template: mydocs
1. Make a folder inside mydocs folder call it whatever you like I’ll call it “Joomla101”
2. Inside Joomla101 folder make an “images” folder.
3. Open Dreamweaver
4. Top menu site > new site
5. Click the Advance tab
6. for the local root folder: file the path to c:\whatever-path\“mydocs”\templateName
7. for the default images folder c:\whatever-path\“mydocs”\templateName\images
8. Links relative to: Document
9. http address: http://www.your-website-joomla-install.com

Next select:
1. Remote info: pull down menu select> ftp and your info.
The “host directory” part add the adresss/templates/templateName

Next select:
1. Testing sever:
2. server model : none
3. access : ftp
4. ftp host : your info
5. host directory: adresss/templates/templateName
6. other fields your info
7. URl prefix: http address: http://www.your-website-joomla-install.com

Save your settings.
Make sure that your Dreamweaver file manager has your new site templateName as the root.
Run the wizards as per video.

Now special note: after you have setup every thing as per the above info and made the files with the base template wizard I would name my template via the update xml wizard to whatever you like.
Save your work.

Upload your files your site log-in to the Joomla back-end administration.
Top menu >site > template manager> site templates

In the template manager look for your uploaded name template name select the radio button for it and
Assign it as the default template by clicking the default image on the upper right side of the template manager.

Your done you can start designing as per the video.

I’m updating the way the extension works so you only have to do this once per site.
But at it’s current stage you will have to do this for each template you make.

This update will be added to the Joomla template Kit SE 2.1 along with some more features.
Also I most likely will be starting up a local web server project called 123webkit I made about a year ago that helps setup a local web design environment.

[cooterbrown]

Thanks for the advice! Worked like a charm.

Really pumped about learning Joomla and the video really helped me understand the underlying principles. I don't have a real grasp - but am lightyears beyond even yesterday.
Many thanks.

[admin]

Hi cooterbrown,

The Joomla CMS is like a living piece of software. I’m also learning new tricks so just keep that in mind it’s like Photoshop I started using it at version 3 not CS3 version 3 and I’m still learning new tricks.

Anyway you’re welcome as soon as I can get some of these miles stones out of the way I’ll start adding a lot more content to the site for you to find out more about Joomla, Dreamweaver and related products for web design.

Cheers
Brian

[nomadickirk]

I followed these instructions, but I am having an issue with the images, the are pointing to the root image directory, ex. http://209.197.117.146/images/,, please advise

[admin]

you have to explain your issue!