technical difficulties

[Nadroj0711]

ok
so
as most of you guys know, i design my website with flash
http://ftdojb.com
anyway, i've been working on the pages and stuff
when I'm done with it I save it and publish it as an html and swf file
then I open the html file and add stuff like <title> and <center> then save it
then I send it with my ftp client
THE PROBLEM IS:
none of the things I'm putting on there are updating
i've tried refreshing, clearing cache, and even deleting all the files and putting them back in
my files are updated when I look at them
but on the site, they still look old
help

[rtil]

geez that noise over the buttons scared the hell out of me
try using ctrl+f5 when checking your updates

[Nadroj0711]

geez that noise over the buttons scared the hell out of me
try using ctrl+f5 when checking your updates

lmao you must have your speakers way up!
i've already tried ctrl+f5
they just aren't changing
what dd you see on each page when you were there

[rtil]

about is blank
extras has 2 demos and a ringtone
music has a 9 track album
contact has aim, mail and myspace

[Nadroj0711]

i see that now too
but i've switched to my laptop
i still don't know what's wrong with about
ugh my desktop is so lame

[Nadroj0711]

okay, check this out:
every other page updates fine
i even made a test page
i messed around with it and discovered that everything updates INSTANTLY
so i gave up, deleted the fla, the swf, and the html docs for about
then i made it again and it STILL has the same thing as before: the word "Later" and a Home button that doesn\\\'t work
so wtf is wrong with it

that ONE page doesn\\\'t change

[rtil]

did you delete it from FTP and upload a fresh copy

[Tealon]

I'm not the expert with embeded HTML in flash, but just to comment on the design of the site, it's pretty terrible.  
You may want to work on the layout and design of the site a whoooollle fucking lot later on.

[Nadroj0711]

did you delete it from FTP and upload a fresh copy

yes

I'm not the expert with embeded HTML in flash, but just to comment on the design of the site, it's pretty terrible.  
You may want to work on the layout and design of the site a whoooollle fucking lot later on.

no

[rtil]

i'm not sure what to tell ya
is it the index file

[Nadroj0711]

i'm not sure what to tell ya
is it the index file

yeah I know, it's weird
what is 'index file'
yeah i know i'm dumb

[rtil]

you know like the default file it looks for in every folder
index.html/php/swf/etc

[Nadroj0711]

ok...
well in my ftp client I have about.html and about.swf in my public_html folder

[Philip K Dick]

jordan's site looks like footjob.com

[Thor]

THE PROBLEM IS:
none of the things I'm putting on there are updating
i've tried refreshing, clearing cache, and even deleting all the files and putting them back in
my files are updated when I look at them
but on the site, they still look old
help

I had the exact same problem when doing a portfolio project for a class. You're just going to need on refreshing and clearing out the cache, and it'll refresh eventually (such is the reason why I don't like flash based sites)

Or, or you could save it as a different file name [/index2.swf] and do that, because no one's really going to look at the source code and ask "HRMM. WHY ARE THERE NUMBERS AFTER THIS?"

[Nadroj0711]

jordan\\\'s site looks like footjob.com

that\\\'s what anigen said

oh hey, about.html works now
i just checked after a few hours
whatever

[Nadroj0711]

hey is there a way to make my own 404 error message page

[rtil]

yep
place a file called 404.shtml in the directory you want to have a custom 404 error page
this works for any kind of error

[rtil]

ok i take it back it\\\'s not that simple
hang on i used to have this i\\\'ll figure it out in a sec

oh yeah
ok so open notepad and type in this:

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ErrorDocument 404 http://www.ftdojb.com/404.html

now whenever someone in that directory hits a missing file, they\\\'ll be redirected to 404.html
you can do this for any error
also .htaccess files are very important and can be used to do just about anything access-wise

[Nadroj0711]

ok so open notepad and type in this:

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ErrorDocument 404 http://www.ftdojb.com/404.html

ok, then put it in public_html?
also, does it matter what I save it as?

you can do this for any error
also .htaccess files are very important and can be used to do just about anything access-wise

so to do this for a different error, I would replace '404' with the other error
what other types of errors could i have?
what are .htaccess files