How to edit & make permanent changes to web pages online ?

dreamland4321

Hi I need some technical advice on web pages,

Is it possible for you to log into a particular website, make changes to the site like with text & imagery (only way I know how to do this is through inspect element but it's not exactly what I'm looking for) save those changes, log out, log back in & those changes remain in tact ?

If it is possible how do you go about doing that, or is there a piece of software that you can use to help with this ?

If I'm not posting this in an ideal area could you please advise me on where I might find the best advice

davo2001

If you are the owner of the website then you can alter it via the cpanel or HTML code.

dreamland4321

davo2001 wrote: »

If you are the owner of the website then you can alter it via the cpanel or HTML code.

What if I don't own the site but you could still log in & out, like if the site was produced & owned by oracle for example

I'm a bit of a n00b in this area

advertsfox

Unless you are the site admin with access to wherever the site is hosted, you can't edit the website yourself, esp. if you don't own it.

devildriver

dreamland4321 wrote: »

What if I don't own the site but you could still log in & out, like if the site was produced & owned by oracle for example

I'm a bit of a n00b in this area

I'm not sure I follow you.

If you have login privileges to the site in question then it's just a matter of using the CMS that runs the site to make edits.

If you do not have access privileges to the site then you are talking about hacking, which of course is illegal.

Sorry if I've misunderstood.

dreamland4321

advertsfox wrote: »

Unless you are the site admin with access to wherever the site is hosted, you can't edit the website yourself, esp. if you don't own it.

Theres no possible way that I could do it through a link, similar to using inspect element saving it clicking on the link & reappearing with the changes ?

Its not a site I own and its not a site I created

dreamland4321

devildriver wrote: »

I'm not sure I follow you.

If you have login privileges to the site in question then it's just a matter of using the CMS that runs the site to make edits.

If you do not have access privileges to the site then you are talking about hacking, which of course is illegal.

Sorry if I've misunderstood.

I probably haven't explained it well

I can log in & out

I can access it but I don't own or run the site

I doont have any intention to hack a site

gugleguy

Dreamweaver is web editing software. However it is a bit too complex for beginners. As a nOOb you should pick up a hardcopy book along the lines of web pages for dummies
Or the like.

dreamland4321

gugleguy wrote: »

Dreamweaver is web editing software. However it is a bit too complex for beginners. As a nOOb you should pick up a hardcopy book along the lines of web pages for dummies
Or the like.

If you're using dreamweaver do you have to create your own site to use it, or can it be a site
that already exists ?

aamurray

Dreamweaver uses ftp to connect to a site on the web so you would need the ftp username and password to use it. You could create a site on your local PC though.

dreamland4321

This might explain it better...

Is there no possible way that I could log into a site like facebook for example (the site I need to edit isn't facebook Im just using it as an example) & similar to inspect element make changes like text changes, save them, save it to your desktop for example, log out of the site... but still using an active internet connection log back into the site as normal, & the changes that you made are still there

I know using inspect element doesn't do this, but is there any possible way the above scenario can work

dreamland4321

aamurray wrote: »

Dreamweaver uses ftp to connect to a site on the web so you would need the ftp username and password to use it. You could create a site on your local PC though.

What's ftp ? (n00b)

And if I don't have it how would I go about accessing the username & password ?

aamurray

ftp - file transfer protocol - only the owner of a site or the developer of the site will have the access credentials.

uch

Legally, No

dreamland4321 wrote: »

This might explain it better...

Is there no possible way that I could log into a site like facebook for example (the site I need to edit isn't facebook Im just using it as an example) & similar to inspect element make changes like text changes, save them, save it to your desktop for example, log out of the site... but still using an active internet connection log back into the site as normal, & the changes that you made are still there

I know using inspect element doesn't do this, but is there any possible way the above scenario can work

aamurray

ftp - file transfer protocol - only the site owners and developers have the access credentials. you can of course edit pages on Wikipedia but that kind of access is rare.

28064212

As posted on your other thread (cross-posting the same question across multiple forums is frowned upon btw):

28064212 wrote: »

I'm presuming you don't have access to the actual site-owners to make these changes? And you're happy that these changes are only for you, not for anybody else?

If that's correct, you want to look at Stylish and/or Greasemonkey, available for Firefox or Chrome (although the latter's Chrome version is called Tampermonkey). Stylish lets you apply your own CSS rules to webpages, and Greasemonkey lets you run your own Javascript

gugleguy

I don't know. I don't use dreamweaver. I believe you should take a look at WordPress - it may be more what you're looking for. That's my contribution to this thread. Bye now.

Zen 2nd

I think your request was worded a bit wrong, I'm assuming all you want to do is basically change the website only for yourself.

There might be a few plugins that you can use to modify the look of a website without having to keep changing the dynamic source code. In work at the moment so can't check them out.

devildriver

dreamland4321 wrote: »

This might explain it better...

Is there no possible way that I could log into a site like facebook for example (the site I need to edit isn't facebook Im just using it as an example) & similar to inspect element make changes like text changes, save them, save it to your desktop for example, log out of the site... but still using an active internet connection log back into the site as normal, & the changes that you made are still there

I know using inspect element doesn't do this, but is there any possible way the above scenario can work

OK I think I get it. The site is question is one where you have a member account, such as Facebook, Twitter or even Boards.ie but you don't actually own or run yourself.

All such sites have an interface where the users or members can make edits or post content but limited only to functions that the site owner designates. The site owner will have full access privileges to edit, change or delete anything at all on the site.

So the short answer is no. You cannot make any changes to any part of a site for which you do not have permissions - you can think of the word "permissions" both literally (legally) and also in the sense that it is used in web design / programming where it designates what can be modified by certain defined users or admins.

Sorry for the "long windedness" but hopefully that clarifies it for you.

davo2001

OP, in short, what you are asking is not possible.

Antar Bolaeisk

The only thing I can think of is modifying the site using Chrome's developer tools, it allows you to make live changes to the site but you can't bring them outside the current session so any changes you make are lost on close.

What changes are you hoping to make? Maybe it's something which can be achieved through greasemonkey or equivalent?

dreamland4321

28064212 wrote: »

As posted on your other thread (cross-posting the same question across multiple forums is frowned upon btw):

I posted it on different threads because I wasn't too sure on which thread would be best to ask for advice on

dreamland4321

Zen 2nd wrote: »

I think your request was worded a bit wrong, I'm assuming all you want to do is basically change the website only for yourself.

There might be a few plugins that you can use to modify the look of a website without having to keep changing the dynamic source code. In work at the moment so can't check them out.

Yes sorry it probably was worded a bit wrong or awkwardly

and yes I just want to change the website just for myself on my laptop, so if someone else logged into the site on a different/laptop computer they would see what was originally there

Could you please let me know what the plugins are or PM me if you can please ?

dreamland4321

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

The only thing I can think of is modifying the site using Chrome's developer tools, it allows you to make live changes to the site but you can't bring them outside the current session so any changes you make are lost on close.

What changes are you hoping to make? Maybe it's something which can be achieved through greasemonkey or equivalent?

I checked out chromes developer tools, its just pretty much the same as using inspect element ?

I have to check out greasemonkey & see if it can help me in any way

yoyo

You have other threads in more suitable forums. Please don't cross post.