Web Hosting and Web Design For Small Business

I’m having problems changing from frontpage to expression and filezilla. My server quit with the frontpage extensions and so I’ve got to find another way to update our website and I’m feeling like I need to take a college course in web design to figure it out!

I’ve used Frontpage for the last 6 years and I never fully understood it either, so that is part of my problem. Let me explain…our website has a .com and .net version. Through the .net, (I have no idea how this happened) but all I had to do was make whatever changes to the pages that I wanted, for instance, changing our hours of business on the about us page and then save. I didn’t even have to click on publish. I have no idea why, but by saving, it changed the pages online. Now…with our .com site, I did have to actually click publish, but it was set so that it changed my changes, but I didn’t have to select which files to upload or anything like that. I’m sure all of this wasn’t very secure, but WOW it was easy!!

So now I’ve downloaded filezilla and I’ve purchased Web Expressions and can’t figure out either. With Filezilla, I’m logged in and it says files transferred, and directory updated, but when I go to the http: version of the website there are no changes. Now, if I enter the ftp:// address and log in, I see changes.

With Web Expressions, it tells me that there are errors with my destination address, which I’ve asked my server about. So I either need a ftp for dummies explanation or I don’t know! I am so clueless about what I’m doing that I don’t even know the correct questions to ask. This is about to stress me to my limit. The only reason I even started doing the website myself is b/c our web host/designer would take months to get the updates on the site and then they weren’t “updates”!