How can I change the extra symbols added when editing EZ pages?

**sweetshi** · 25 Mar 2009, 09:56 PM

Salutations

The problem I am having, is when ever I work in Vile Manager and change the main page or the ez pages, there seems to be a automatic add extra symbols attached to the pages.
Example.
I might change a image, but when I push source, I find that the page now has many new items like 5 </fonts> in a row, or </strong> over and over added to the line.
Also if I add a link to my image for example, when I click source, it will now have that link added to every line of my page.
And I have to go clean them out of there, but when I check source again it is right back in place.

Is there an auto correct that I can remove, in the admin setup?

Please Help
Thank you Sweetshi

**gjh42** · 25 Mar 2009, 10:17 PM

Are you working in your server file manager? THat has been reported to corrupt files (as you are apparently finding out).

The best way to edit a file is to FTP it to your home computer, edit in a text editor like Notepad++ or CrimsonEditor (both free from Sourceforge), and FTP back to your server.
This takes some setting up, but once you have it going, it can be very fast to edit and re-edit a file, testing each time.

**sweetshi** · 1 Apr 2009, 08:16 PM

Originally Posted by gjh42

Are you working in your server file manager? THat has been reported to corrupt files (as you are apparently finding out).

The best way to edit a file is to FTP it to your home computer, edit in a text editor like Notepad++ or CrimsonEditor (both free from Sourceforge), and FTP back to your server.
This takes some setting up, but once you have it going, it can be very fast to edit and re-edit a file, testing each time.

Thank you GJH 42

I have been trying to do that, but the problems is uploading the picture files.
With tiny, I am having a terrible time uploading new picture, it just uploads what it wants,
and I can not make new files WEA

So I have been working in note pad, but again the problem is the uploading of pictures.
Is there a special way to do that?
Thank you in advance for your help
I will keep trying.
www.sweetshimas.com

**gjh42** · 1 Apr 2009, 08:49 PM

You can use your FTP client to upload the image files to wherever you want them on the server. What are you using for FTP?
I don't use an HTML editor, so can't comment on loading files with what you have running in your ZC admin.

**fairestcape** · 1 Apr 2009, 10:42 PM

I sometimes use an external HTML editor to compose the content of defined pages and EZpages, as I like the benefits of using a more sophisticated wysiwyg interface during the design procedures.

When I am happy with the result, I toggle to source mode in the wysiwyg editor and copy the code only between the <body> and </body> tags.

I also create new style classes and ID's during this process, making sure that the names I give them do not conflict with any that ZC already uses. Then I copy those, with their associated declarations, to the stylesheet.css file.

Because EZPages and Defined Pages rely on the default header in ZC, the existing <base href="xxxxxxxx" /> means I use RELATIVE paths to the images. To assist in the design on the wysiwyg editor, I strip in that <base href> into the header of the page, so that the program calls the images from the live server while I work on the design. This does require that I first FTP the images to the folder on the server so that the relative paths are referencing the proper images.

Again, when I'm happy with the result, I grab the HTML, and then "paste" it into HTMLArea (after toggling to HTML mode).

**sweetshi** · 1 Apr 2009, 11:14 PM

I use RELATIVE paths to the images

Hi again Thank you for your help.

But how do I upload them and where do I upload them?

very confused.

**sweetshi** · 1 Apr 2009, 11:12 PM

Hi Glenn

I was just using the one give by hostmonster
Do you suggest a easy to use one? for dummies?
Thank you for your help
PS Can you help me get the zcart tag of my web page www.sweetshimas.com

**gjh42** · 1 Apr 2009, 11:17 PM

Filezilla is a highly recommended (and free) FTP client that you can get from www.sourceforge.net.

Images for your template should go in /includes/templates/your_template/images/ .
Content images can go in the basic /images/ folder, or a new one like /images/ezpages/, or wherever you want - just keep them organized.

**DrByte** · 25 Mar 2009, 10:54 PM

You can turn off the HTML editor by choosing "Plain Text" from the editors list on your EZ Pages screen, and you can set your default preference for editor in Admin->Configuration->My Store->HTML Editor (set it to NONE or Plain Text). Then the next time you login to your admin that should be selected by default. You'll have to write all your HTML by hand then.

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