Newbie help - Post ID 246688

Apr 2nd, 2015 at 01:51 PM
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Ray
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Hello to all, My name is Ray and after 20 years with our site Google finally told us like so many others that we are "not mobile friendly" I bought CC RLM Pro software and the template pack to help me become mobile friendly.

As a newbie with RLM this may be a "dumb" question or two and please be kind with any replies.
#1. As fa as the css folder is only one used for the entire website even if the site has maybe 50 or more pages??

#2. I see it says that a 'Image" folder is used --we actually keep all our images in different folders for different occasions ie. Halloween, Thanksgiving etc. is that still okay or do now have to be in one main "Image" folder and then "sub folders" in that folder?

#.3 Is is okay to start and just make one or two pages "mobile friendly" first and keep the older ones the way they are until I get to update them as time permits?

#.4 We have always used WS-FTP and hopefully we can still use our same FTP program??

Sorry for these Newbie questions but I can use the help to get started. Ray
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Apr 2nd, 2015 at 02:37 PM
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paintbrush
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#1 You'll have a few different CSS files when you get done making your layout. You would also have other CSS files if you use Menu Builder. Here's an example (Thanks, Steve!), right-click on a blank area of his page and choose 'view source".
http://misterwebguy.com/
You would have all your stylesheets in one CSS folder and all of your stylesheet links in the <head> of each page.
#2 You can organize images however you want to. For example; on one of my sites, I have the main images folder with a sub-folder called 'holidays'. Do what you need to keep organized.
#3 You could start with the most critical pages (home, contact for example). One way to speed up the process is to come up with an over-all layout that works for all your pages (home can be a bit different), then copy/paste your existing content into the new layout – tweak as needed.
#4 If you use CC's HTML Editor, you can set up your site as a Project – this will keep all your files together and make sure everything necessary gets uploaded, all from within the Editor. One-click publishing :D

You can download free trials of any CC software, so try it out! :)
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Apr 2nd, 2015 at 02:49 PM
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Ray
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Thank you Paintbrush for the quick reply, I will go over what you said and see how what I can do.
I did purchase the RLM Pro and also the CC editor even though I had a web editor I felt it was best to keep it all in the same CC family. I also have been working with different CC templates to see what is best for my site.
Hopefully I will have a page or two ready to upload in the near future.

Testing the CC-RLM software I am really impressed with what it does and hope I won't mess anything up (to bad that is)

Thank you - Ray
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Apr 2nd, 2015 at 08:22 PM
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paintbrush
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You'll find plenty of help in the forums... Don't be afraid to dive in and get going:D
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Apr 3rd, 2015 at 01:17 AM
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Brian Durfee
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Kreation Specialties wrote:
#.4 We have always used WS-FTP and hopefully we can still use our same FTP program??

I have used WS-FTP for years. I also use CC's one-click publishing in HTML editor. Personally, I found that for bulk uploads, WS-FTP was faster. However, for small uploads of just a few files, CC's built-in FTP in the Editor was extremely convenient just as Paintbrush said.
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Apr 13th, 2015 at 10:52 AM
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Ray
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Thanks Paintbrush and Brian for responding, I hope that in time I can make my site mobile friendly and get back sales that we have lost. I have been working with different CC templates to see what is best for us and do use the CC web editor. Questions I do have again are:

1. Our index page has always been .htm ( since the 90's) and not .html, am I able to keep them .htm in CC
now or must it now be changed to .html ??

2. As far as meta tags, has that now changed in html5?
Do we still use the same meta tags as we have been or is it now less meta tags being used?

I am sorry that these seem like simple questions to many but important to us to know.

Thanks, Ray
Ray aka Kreations
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Since 1972 helping clients help "Discover Their Dream Vacation"
Apr 13th, 2015 at 11:24 AM
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Jo Rice
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Hiya KS,

Sounds like you might benefit from checking out a few tutorials. The most prominent would be to start with the W3Schools for HTML5 to help you answer those questions for HTML5 that you have:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_intro.asp

As for the .htm vs. .html I don't think it really matters so you should be able to keep your .htm page setup, that should save you some hassles for having to do a lot of redirects.
Jo

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