Hey,
I was wondering how i make my own website if i have already downloaded a weather program that allows me to transfer all of the data from my weather station to the computer (onto the program). And i was wondering how i get all of that info onto a website that i make. If someone could please help me a little bit here and maybe give me a good website, that would be great. Thanks! By the way, i am a newbie so try not to confuse me :?
Hello Tim,
That, would to a certain degree, depend on the Program you have that takes the data from your Weather Station and places it on your computer.
Many programs create images and text files that contain the data. They also have built in FTP capabilities which can be used to automatically upload the data.
If you could tell us the program we could try and help or point you to other avenues.
Thanks,
Bob
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Hello Tim,
That, would to a certain degree, depend on the Program you have that takes the data from your Weather Station and places it on your computer.
Many programs create images and text files that contain the data.
Hi again Tim,
Well, I am afraid I won’t be much help as I have never used FreeWX-Wi, and that program doesn’t support the Station Hardware i currently have.
It appears from taking a quick look at their Forums they have tags and some sort of graphs capability which you should be able to use to create web based information with. However you might be better served posting on their forums as the easiest and probably best methods would be to leverage the software you have…
http://www.austorm.com/phpBB2/index.php
Mybe someone else will come along that has used that program and could provide more assistance.
The best of luck,
Bob
seems a bit odd a freeex person is asking for help on this forum where there is a forum for freewx users where they can ask for help
now if you were using the sofware weather display, then there would be more people able to help, on this forum
i’m not sure if you guys understand what i am asking. i want to know like how do you get a website like this: http://jaxweather.net/ ? except i want to find one that is free. if someone understands what i am talking about, please help.
thanks,
Tim J.
yes, you want to find a way of getting data and images from your FreeWx program to a website automatically?
well this forum is primarily for users of Brian Hamilton’s Weather Display program - unfortunately there is no discussion of FreeWx here as far as I know - which is why a suggestion was made by Bob to check out their forums.
Now if you were interested in trying out Weather Display (free for 30 days before registering) then there would be loads of help on this forum for you. WD is a fab program and the support is top notch and it will take all the data from your WMR968 and create text and images that can be automatically uploaded to create a website page.
JaxWeather uses data from both Weather Display and another bit of software called VWS, but the owner has knowledge of HTML and PHP to adapt the data and create the website you see - and probably uses Website creation programs such as Frontpage or Dreamweaver
Obviously if you want to use FreeWx then that is fine - just that you may not get the amount of help here as you would on the FreeWx forums as we are all using Weather Display.
Now you are using the new wireless version of FreeWX for your WMR968 - I have found a website of a user using the original FreeWx for the WM918 and he manages to get a screenshot uploaded of his FreeWx program. Perhaps you can email him for any assistance?
http://www.alvestonweather.co.uk/ is his website URL.
hope this info helps in some way and I have not confused you!
cheers
I’m not clear what you’re asking, so others are probably confused as well.
To create a weather web site you need a number of things…
Somewhere to upload it to. Do you need web space? If so your ISP may offer free space or people here can recommend some providers that they’ve used.
Optionally a domain name, e.g. xyz.com. Your ISP may be able to provide this, and there are a lot of other companies who can provide a domain name. However if you want your own full domain it’s unlikely to be free. Your web space provider may be able to host the domain for you, but this isn’t always possible.
Some software to upload weather data to the site. The vast majority of people on this forum use Weather Display. This isn’t free software. Some people here will also have used other software, but maybe a long time ago. So whilst you might get an opinion of what the various programs can do you might get a biased view (because most people here believe that Weather Display is the best weather software). If you want to find out how to get Free-WX-WI to create a site for you, you need to ask that on their support site because few people here (if any) will have used that particular software package or understand how to make it work.
To build a full weather site you probably need to add more pages that won’t come from a weather software package. There are plenty of tools out there to help you build web sites. Some are free, others are very expensive. The free ones usually require a lot more work by the user to build a web site, e.g. you can build a web site by writing HTML using Notepad on a Windows PC.
Is it any of these four things you were asking about, or do you want to know something else that I’ve not covered?
It appears that he is looking for a free web space provider. At least thats my take on the discussion.
If that is the case then the ISP he is using should provide a certain amount of webspace that should be ideal for a weather website.
Tim - does your ISP provide webspace for you?
I used Frewewx before I switched to WD. It’s a good basic program, and like WD, has a basic premade website template as well as the ability to use custom tags to design your own website. It only worked with the wm918 before, but since it’s been discontinued I see Andy has added wireless weather station ability.
I also think he is asking about free web hosting , but it would help if he just comes right out and says what he’s looking for!
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I used Frewewx before I switched to WD. It’s a good basic program, and like WD, has a basic premade website template as well as the ability to use custom tags to design your own website.
Hi Tim 
As far as getting the data from your software to web space you would want to see if the software itself has a built in function to do this, as Weather Display and other paid software does. I would really investigate utilizing the software you already have to its full capability and see what it can create and upload for you.
Now what to do with it after you get it there.
My site is PHP based which allows a number of options such as includes, allows you to pull in full html files directly into another page for formatting and layout purposes. I also use my own layout and navigation and the “iframe” tag for including some files from other directories, along with their images.
I first designed an overall look, using basic HTML, that I liked. Then once I had the basic colors, header left navigation and bottom (or footer) all set the way i wanted I split it into 4 parts, basically…
header.txt
footer.txt
nav.txt
and then a file that called each of the above elements, using PHP include statements, and then in each separate file I added content to the center of the page… This is very simplified but is the basic method I used.
Now this allows for modularity and if I want to change a link in the left navigation i can change one file and it changes for every page that uses that navigation file. This can also be done, to a bit lesser degree using SSI (server side includes) however SSI doesn’t support as much flexibility that PHP does, IMHO.
I always start any page design using Nvu, which is a Free WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) HTML editor based on the Mozilla Composer module. http://www.nvu.com/
Then I upload a sample and tweak it on the server directly as Nvu has limitations, especially in saving PHP code. Once I have the look i want then it is really just adding content to each of the pages I am planning on. My site started with about 5 pages and has grown to about 25 main pages, four separate applications, HamWeather, Picture Gallery, GuestBook and Station Log and I still have more to add, such as tide, fire danger and soon Lightning information… (just got to figure a better navigation system, i hate drop downs) LOL
Hope this helps a bit,
Bob
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sorry if i confused you guys.
Thanks for information carterlake. I just posted on the websites forums and found out that the weather station software can be transfered onto a webpage. Also, FreeWX-Wi has its own web host stuff, so it is all free and I don’t have to pay for anything. Thanks for all of the help guys!
actually, sorry for the double post guys…but i am totally confused on how i make my own webpage/put my weather station software onto my webpage. if someone could please please help, that would be great…thanks!
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actually, sorry for the double post guys…but i am totally confused on how i make my own webpage/put my weather station software onto my webpage.
alright, thanks for the help. i have just posted a topic and am waiting. by the way, how long does it usually take to make your own web page…such as the one that you made?
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alright, thanks for the help.
Thanks for the help everyone…I just have ONE more question (and im sure more when i start to make my webpage in the summer 8O). Here it goes. Do you have to download an FTP program in order to upload my weather station software onto my website? Again, thanks for the help, it is much appreciated.