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Editing Your Website

How to Edit the Text of Your Website Yourself

If you have a website designed by Brazzell Marketing Agency, we encourage website owners to have us make any edits. As long as you have a time-fee work authorization on file, you can simply email change instructions to us. We will implement those changes and charge for labor, often at a nominal fee. Small website changes are often done the same day we receive your email (Monday through Friday). Letting Brazzell Marketing Agency maintain your website ensures optimal functionality of the website, as well as the continuation of its professionally designed appearance.

On the other hand, your hosting account does give you a resource that allows you to change the text of the website without having to get into the code. You do this by accessing an application in cPanel called HTML Editor.

1. Log into cPanel.
2. Click File Manager.
3. Click public_html, or the folder containing the website in question if you have more than one website.
4. Select any file that ends .html or .htm.
• Tip: Make a backup before you begin editing the file. Click Download from the top menu and save the file to your computer. This is just a backup. If you mess up your website, you can click Upload from the same screen to upload the backup and restore your website to its previous state. Additionally, we keep a copy of your directly coded websites saved offline. You can always email us and have us upload your website and restore it to the last time we worked on it.
5. With a file selected, select HTML Editor from the top menu. This will begin to open that file in HTML Editor.
6. Ignore all the advanced content in that first popup. Click "edit" in the bottom bar to proceed.
7. Now you have a standard text editor. Make your changes and click save. In a separate browser window, you can have that page of the website open and hit refresh to see the changes you made.
8. If you get into the practice of editing your own website this way, it's a good practice to download the files to your computer, so you will have a backup of the current version. You can download selected files or the whole website. To download the whole website, use File Manager to select all files and folders. Then click Compress from the top menu. This creates a zip file containing your whole website. Download the zip file to your computer. Then delete the zip file from your server to conserve memory.

Note: Most of our clients don't edit their websites themselves, and we assume you are not. If you do this and subsequently order us to make changes to your website, please notify us that the version we have saved offline may not be current to the version on the server. Otherwise, we will start working from the version we have saved offline and then overwrite all your changes when we upload those files. When you notify us that you have been editing your website yourself, we will first move our backup to an archive, and then download your website from the server. This requires extra steps and can add roughly $20 to each paid change order.

Selecting Pages to Edit

To see what files correspond with which pages on your website, open your website in an Internet browser. Navigate to the page you want to edit. In the address bar of your Internet browser, notice that the address is your domain name, followed by a forward slash, and then followed by a file name such as Services.html. That file name is the file you want to select in File Manager to edit that page. You know it's a file name because it has an extension such as .htm, .html, or .php. Names without extensions and ending with another forward slash, indicate a subfolder. In File Manager, open that subfolder to find the html file.

Editing Non-HTML Pages

Perhaps you will find a page of your website that ends with an extension other than .html or .htm. The most likely other extension is .php. If it is a page on your website, it likely still has html code in it, and you can still use html editor to edit it.

1. Change the file name such that the extension becomes .htm. For instance, if the file name was Contact.php, change it to Contact.htm. To rename a file, select a file in File Manager by following steps one through four above. With a file selected in File Manager, click Rename at the top of the screen. Follow the on-screen instructions.
2. Now, follow steps five through seven above to edit your web page.
3. When you are done editing in HTML editor and have saved your changes, use File Manager again to restore the file extension on the file name. For instance, if the file name was originally Contact.php, use the Rename button to change the file name back to Contact.php. Failure to do so will result in broken links and loss of functionality.