why am I losing formatting?

[samanthaospelt]

I am new to filezilla and a real novice at the whole file transfer system, so I hope this is an easy question. When I download a page from my existing website (originally published through macromedia contribute) and go to edit it, all the formatting is lost - it seems to revert back to very basic fonts, colors sizes etc. Why does that happen? Will it revert back after I re-upload it, or do I need to fix all the fonts etc. back to the way they were before I upload? Also, I cannot see any of the pictures on the page. I just see place holders. I am using Windows vista and firezilla version 3.2.6. Any advice is appreciated.

[botg]

firezilla version 3.2.6. Any advice is appreciated.

This is the support forum for FileZilla, not firezilla. Notice the difference.

[Cypress]

I am new to filezilla and a real novice at the whole file transfer system, so I hope this is an easy question. When I download a page from my existing website (originally published through macromedia contribute) and go to edit it, all the formatting is lost - it seems to revert back to very basic fonts, colors sizes etc. Why does that happen? Will it revert back after I re-upload it, or do I need to fix all the fonts etc. back to the way they were before I upload? Also, I cannot see any of the pictures on the page. I just see place holders. I am using Windows vista and firezilla version 3.2.6. Any advice is appreciated.

Image issue:
This has to do with the links that point to the image probably looks simalar to the following:

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<img src="/images/blahblah.jpg">

That is a 'relative link' meaning where the images are located in relation to the webpage file you are editing.. there are to ways to fix this and well iam going to state the easiest one cause the other one would be annoying.
1. Simply create a folder in your documents(or wherever you wish) name it mywebsite
2. Open filezilla and download your ENTIRE site(public_html folder or what not) saving it into the "mywebsite" folder.
3. Open the files inside the "mywebsite" folder you where trying to edit now everything should look as it was.

For the font color and size:
Well like I said in step 3 above everything should look the same..
Learning experience: The only reason that I can think of you where having font color/size displaying differently is because you had an external file modifying the layout of the webpage. Such as a CSS style sheet.. because if you were simply using the font tag:

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<font face="" color="" size="">

in the web page code you shouldn't see any difference in them while viewing in a web client.

[samanthaospelt]

Thanks for your response. I downloaded all the folders/files listed (two folders would not download - "htsdata" and "Merchant2"). I can then pull the files up in Kompozer and they look fine - all fonts and photos are correct. If I save as a different name, then open the html file, the formats and fonts are lost again. Should that be happening? If I upload that file again, will the fonts return? I did not understand what you were saying after "Learning Experience." My challenge is that I don't really understand the html codes - I designed the original site using a wysiwyg type program. I'm not sure what a CSS style sheet is, and I'm not familiar with font tags. Ugh. Any other thoughts?

[botg]

Formatting of websites is done using CSS nowadays, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets

[Cypress]

I can then pull the files up in Kompozer and they look fine - all fonts and photos are correct. If I save as a different name, then open the html file, the formats and fonts are lost again. Should that be happening?

Did you save it in the 'mywebsite' folder?

[samanthaospelt]

I did not originally, because I wanted to keep all the downloaded files separate as a backup, but I just moved the "test" file into the folder with the downloads and it looks ok.

If I have a change to just one page, would you recommend that I download all the files/folders, make the change to the one page, then re-upload them all again, or can I just re-upload the one page with the change? Will the re-upload link back up with the other pages already with the service provider that didn't change? And, when I upload the new page, should it have the same file name as the old one? If it is called a new name, will that mess up any links to the other pages on the website?

Thanks so much for getting back to me so quickly - I'm really losing my mind on this one!

[Cypress]

If I have a change to just one page, would you recommend that I download all the files/folders, make the change to the one page, then re-upload them all again, or can I just re-upload the one page with the change?

If you just change the content on one page all you have to do is download it to 'web' folder make alterations the upload it.

If it is called a new name, will that mess up any links to the other pages on the website?

The links contained in the new named page should work perfectly, however.. links on other pages will need to be added or edited.