Editing HTML through FTP and IIS
Hi, all! I'm new to this community, but not new to web development. I've played around with HTML (self-taught) for the past 10 years and used to run a Sonic (the Hedgehog) fan site as a hobby (I know, sounds silly but at least I have a valuable skill now!). I also know CSS and JavaScript, also self-taught. I took Computer Science in high school and learned C++. Already being familiar with JavaScript helped me a lot with understanding C++, and I did pretty well in the two years I took CS. I also took Intro to C++ in college, but that was 4 or 5 years ago now. Then I took a web authoring class my last semester of college to get an easy A as an elective. We were taught XHTML (also did some assignments were we had to create a site using CSS only for the layout), so I got a chance to really brush up on my HTML skills and learn the latest standards (although I was already aware of the W3C way before I took this class and always validated my HTML/CSS there). However, I'm a n00b when it comes to anything else. I have only updated websites through FTP. I prefer Notepad over an HTML editor (I've used FlexEd and Dreamweaver).
Anyway, enough about my background. Here's what I came here to ask about.
I work for a translation company. They wanted me to localize a client's site into Spanish for free for all the things they helped us with since we're a small company and we've never done localization before (although my employer is paying me to do this for them). The Spanish site is done and I've already added it to our client's server. The only thing left to do is to add "En español" links to each of the English pages. From what I understand, our client updates their website through some IIS system with a database. I don't really know much about it nor databases. When they have a new press release, I assume they add it to the database and it automatically generates the link on the main page to the new article. So, if I add these links to each page manually, will they be overwritten if they update something their way? I have access to their server remotely, so I can make changes directly to the PHP files. So their pages aren't dynamic as far as I know. They're using XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and a MySQL database. I understand some basic things like how the PHP is calling the database to write information to the page, but all I did was make sure that PHP was still there when I reuploaded it. Maybe someone can shine some light on this? I probably should have asked the client's IT staff, but I don't want to make the translation company look like idiots.
As far as the Spanish site's functionality... well, I have no idea how to create tables in their database in Spanish. I used all the PHP from the English site, so the Spanish site is calling stuff from the English database to display in English. I'm really worried about this, to say the least. Our translators translated the English HTML content output.
Anyway, enough about my background. Here's what I came here to ask about.
I work for a translation company. They wanted me to localize a client's site into Spanish for free for all the things they helped us with since we're a small company and we've never done localization before (although my employer is paying me to do this for them). The Spanish site is done and I've already added it to our client's server. The only thing left to do is to add "En español" links to each of the English pages. From what I understand, our client updates their website through some IIS system with a database. I don't really know much about it nor databases. When they have a new press release, I assume they add it to the database and it automatically generates the link on the main page to the new article. So, if I add these links to each page manually, will they be overwritten if they update something their way? I have access to their server remotely, so I can make changes directly to the PHP files. So their pages aren't dynamic as far as I know. They're using XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and a MySQL database. I understand some basic things like how the PHP is calling the database to write information to the page, but all I did was make sure that PHP was still there when I reuploaded it. Maybe someone can shine some light on this? I probably should have asked the client's IT staff, but I don't want to make the translation company look like idiots.
As far as the Spanish site's functionality... well, I have no idea how to create tables in their database in Spanish. I used all the PHP from the English site, so the Spanish site is calling stuff from the English database to display in English. I'm really worried about this, to say the least. Our translators translated the English HTML content output.
