Website Coding help

[Dubbya]

Okay. My boss has lost his mind and, because I have a good eye for design, put me in charge of laying out our various websites.

I know enough HTML to get it done but I can't, for the life of me, get into our Go Daddy account to make changes to some lines that our former webmaster goofed. Does anybody know how to do that without having access to his computer?

I have access to the login and password, but when I try to access the account, it does nothing. Do I ned his machine to fix that one?

Secondly, has anyone found a good visual website layout software that's maybe in beta or freeware? That would certainly save me time and free is good because I'm broke at the moment.

Thanks in advance guys.

 

[dpm802]

www.openoffice.org

OpenOffice Writer has web-tools built in, and it is free.

I've never used it for this purpose, so I can't tell you how well it works ... I have only used it as a substitute for Microsoft Word, and it performs this task excellently.

 

[Dubbya]

www.openoffice.org

OpenOffice Writer has web-tools built in, and it is free.

I've never used it for this purpose, so I can't tell you how well it works ... I have only used it as a substitute for Microsoft Word, and it performs this task excellently.

Thanks a ton.
I wonder if it would double for FTP.
Anybody know?

 

[kongjie]

I know enough HTML to get it done but I can't, for the life of me, get into our Go Daddy account to make changes to some lines that our former webmaster goofed. Does anybody know how to do that without having access to his computer?

Can you clarify what you mean by "getting into the Go Daddy account"?

I think either you mean to get into the GoDaddy administrative interface or account information area, or you mean to get access to your site via GoDaddy's FTP servers.

You'll have to forgive me because I don't know how GoDaddy works and if they have some kind of special "in-browser" way to access your site code.

All of this should be independent of any particular computer. If the user name and password is correct, and you're using the correct browser and/or software to access what you need, it should work on any computer.

 

[Dubbya]

Can you clarify what you mean by "getting into the Go Daddy account"?

I think either you mean to get into the GoDaddy administrative interface or account information area, or you mean to get access to your site via GoDaddy's FTP servers.

You'll have to forgive me because I don't know how GoDaddy works and if they have some kind of special "in-browser" way to access your site code.

All of this should be independent of any particular computer. If the user name and password is correct, and you're using the correct browser and/or software to access what you need, it should work on any computer.

One login set is for the FTP servers and the other is for the programing interface/admin controls.

Maybe I should mention it to the boss. I hope that his ex-guy didn't change the passwords without his knowledge.

 

[kongjie]

I'm on a Mac but there are a number of free FTP clients that you can use on the PC. There's one for Firefox called FireFTP, for example.

Get your client installed on your machine and access the site. You'll need the correct FTP address, too. If the address, user name and password are all correct and you can't get in, it almost certainly means the previous guy changed the password.

Now that I think of it, your first priority might be to get into GoDaddy's admin area with your browser. If that user name and password don't get in, you need to get the correct log-in from the ex-webmaster. Who is the admin/tech contact listed with GoDaddy? If it's also the ex-webmaster, you need to get this figured out quickly, because he has total control over your site, and if he is ex- by someone else's choice he could be pissed off and make your job harder.

If someone else is the admin/tech contact for GoDaddy then they can probably request that the password be reset. Once you can log into GoDaddy you can probably verify the proper FTP address to update your files, and perhaps even via that interface change the FTP user name and password. You should always do that after someone gets sacked, if that was the deal.

 

[philipfromga]

It would probably be a good idea to reset the passwords. Do you have a linux account or a windows account? The windows accounts supports several WYSIWYG development tools. The linux account has an ssh account that allows shell access so check to see what type of account it is.

 

[_JP_]

One login set is for the FTP servers and the other is for the programing interface/admin controls.

Maybe I should mention it to the boss. I hope that his ex-guy didn't change the passwords without his knowledge.

Contact GoDaddy about resetting the passwords.

 

[Dubbya]

Contact GoDaddy about resetting the passwords.

That seems to be the consensus from the guys in charge.

The ex-webmaster is the ex not of his own free will, so getting them from him is probably out of the picture.