How do you change a website that someone else built if you are a beginner?

Answer 1

Well first of all if your asking this question then im going to have to first say you should'nt be trying to change sombody elses website if you dont first know how to build your own websites. Then I'm going to add that you can only pull HTML and Javascript off the net... Either way you need to know HTML, If the website is written in somthing such as PHP your going to need the original sourcecode before you can make modifications. You can get the HTML in Mozilla by clicking View > Page Source or in internet Explorer by View > Source. But to know what your doing you need to know atleast some HTML or well... Your just gonna see a bunch of random tags and have no idea whats doing what.

Now if your trying to change a PHP or ASP, etc website and you have got a copy of the source code then well just throw it into Notepad or Notepad++ (whichever you wish to use... theres tonnes of editing software such as Dreamweaver or Frount Page) and make your changes, If you have the technical documentation then that just makes things easier right. If your pulling HTML off the net (Watch out for copyrights) then you can do a simple copy and paste or a Save as and then edit the data as you wish.

Now that you have your website and you've changed what you wish its time to put it all on the net for all to see. Now if your sitting at the server then you can simply copy the files into the servers home directory (example servers are Apachi or IIS). If your at a remote location files can be uploaded to the server via protocols such as FTP or Telnet, etc.

This cannot be done. If I wish to visit xyz.com and copy their HTML, Edit it and put it back up. This is legally not possible and can only be done by people that know what they are doing. If you read this question hoping to learn how to hack into a system and change their web page then its already obvious you don't have the required skills. Sure there are ways to do it but they all seem to land you in A LOT of trouble. DON'T TRY.