Last year I signed up for Comcast internet access. For an expensive pain in the ass, it’s not bad.
One of the cool things it came with is free web hosting – basically you can build your own website. And I do mean basically.
Turns out you need to create your pages using their web page “wizard”, which is about as magical as a fern. You don’t have the ability to create HTML files and upload them. And you can’t upload any other files, such as mp3s or pictures. You have to go with their idiotic choice of colors and graphics, which are pretty lame. And you create content by filling out a form, that has questions like “What are your pet’s names?”, so that part of your page will say “My pets are Stinky, Snotface, and Damn stoopid pussy I hate these fucking comcast generic template pages.”
You can, however, put pictures on your page. Simply click on the picture wizard, and fill out the form to put in picture information such as date the picture was taken, who is in it, and your favorite Power Ranger, then put in a URL to your actual picture on another fucking website. That’s right, to put pictures on your personal website, you have to already have another damn website. One that will actually let you upload pictures.
Stupid mother fucking lowest common denominator “I don’t want little Snotleigh to look at offensive content” “I don’t want to have to learn a programming languge” generic whitewashed Walmartian ass-pickle cock-wrinkle cunt-fuckle Comcast. I hate them.
In other news, Bush won the election, I haven’t even started my Christmas shopping, and this morning I stubbed my toe and the pain has not gone away yet. Life sucks ass.
About two weeks ago I was bored so I decided to check my comcast email account. I set up one and used it very briefly once for about a week with Straightdope before I got a gmail account. While I was checking out the spam that accrued, I saw this “wizard” and decided to give it a try. Piece. Of. Shit. Slow moving, impossible to control and set-up, and frankly, I’m still not sure if you can have more than one picture on a page. (I was at least able to get one picture up without a secondary website).
On a plus note, I’ve got a friend who works for Comcast and he set me up with the new DVR box and it’s SWEET (It’s not available in my city due to a lack of the boxes, but they have a few for trial). It’s cheaper a month than TiVo. (On top of that, he screwed around a bit with my plan and I pay $45.00 less a month because of a special they were running.)
Another Comcast user here, and I’ve uploaded my own pictures and pages just fine.
Go to http://www.comcast.net/ and log in. In the left-hand menu, pick Personal Web Pages. Click Web Page Building Blocks under the word “Advanced” on the next page. Pick the HTTP File Uploading option. Use the Browse option to select a file on your hard drive that you want to upload - photo, webpage, whatever. Voilà.
I also have Comcast and I create my own pages, HTML, pictures and upload them all the time. I have never used their wizard. I don’t know how you’re doing it, but I do it my own way all the time. I use IE to FTP, I have almost all of my six 10 MB accounts full of stuff - pictures included.
You don’t have to use the wizard, though I admit that’s the easiest thing to find on the website. Comcast has (or had when I worked tech support) an ftp server. (Hardly anyone ever asked for the address though - I recall fumbling that one whenever it came up. :o) This page seems to have good advice on how to connect that way.
You don’t even have to go to the Comcast page - the ftp address is ftp://upload.comcast.net/ Enter your name and password and you should get a regular ftp folder you can drag and drop the files you want to upload. I just set up folders in the “my network places” area in Win XP and do it that way when I do webpage stuff.
Meh. Bush being the anti-Christ is one thing. My Christmas shopping? Now there’s a crisis! What do you get for a football freak who already has every football thing imaginable?
