Quick Upload It! (QUI!)

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Quick Upload It! (QUI!)

Special File Manager

Quick Upload It! (QUI!) allows you to quickly upload files to your site. QUI! accepts the following for upload...

You can upload one type of file at a time, or "mix and match," uploading image files, support files, media files, and even SBI! Includes and HTML page files at the same time.

Important Note

There is a 100 MB storage limit on all files uploaded with QUI!, except HTML page files, for which there is no storage limit, and SBI! Includes.

If you need to upload more than 10 files at a time, click on the Add More Files... button to display 10 more rows. Keep clicking on it to give you enough rows to re-upload your entire site in one pass.

HTML Page Files

Directions for Use
  • Click on the Browse button (Choose File if using Safari). Navigate to the page file you want to (re-)upload.
  • Click on the Open button (Choose in Safari).
  • Click on the checkbox beside the file name to Update RSS/Blog It! (only for re-uploading existing content pages).
  • Repeat the first three steps for each file you want to (re-)upload.
  • If you want to upload more than 10 files, click on Add More Files.... This will display buttons to upload 10 more files. Repeat for additional files.
  • Click on the Upload It/Them! button at the top or bottom of the page.
  • Review the list of files uploaded to confirm that all files were uploaded successfully.

QUI! allows you to upload new HTML pages quickly. It also lets you re-upload existing pages.

New Pages

Uploading page files with Upload Your Own HTML (UYOH) gives you access to Analyze It! and Preview It!.

UYOH also does basic error-checking for things like a title tag, meta description tag, and alt text.

You can upload files that the page references (images, media and support files) along with the page file.

And each uploaded page will appear in Search Engine HQ's various reports.

Page files that you upload via QUI! bypass Analyze It! and Preview It!. QUI! does not do error-checking. It does not report on any referenced files that you may need to upload, and these pages do not appear in SE HQ.

Therefore, we recommend that you use QUI! to re-upload existing pages, and to upload only those pages that don't need SEO analysis.

This includes the following...

All page files uploaded with QUI! reside at the root of your site, exactly where block-built and UYOH-uploaded page files reside. They will appear in Page Manager, with (Uploaded) or (UL) beside them.

Note, however, that because QUI! does not perform error-checking, you may not be able to re-upload a page in UYOH if the page is missing the title tag, has an empty title tag, or is missing the closing head tag.

Building With Blocks?

If you build most of your pages with BlockBuilder, and need to build a page that requires uploading, use the Transition Template for your site. Click on the Upload Your Own HTML Page button in Site Central, then click on the Click here to get your transition template. link near the top to retrieve your template.

Read the help! Part-way down that page, you'll find a text box that contains the code for your site (the screenshot below is an example, not your code).

Click in the box, go to Edit > Select All in your browser's menu, and copy the highlighted code.

HTML code

Paste the code into an HTML editor, or into Notepad/TextEdit (if you're using TextEdit on a Mac, set it to Plain Text mode before pasting in the code).

Use Upload Your Own HTML to upload these pages. As an occasional builder of code-based pages, you'll want the error-checking and other checks that UYOH provides.

The option to Update RSS/Blog It!? can only be used for re-uploads of existing HTML page files.

Existing Pages

If you have pages that need minor edits, use QUI! to re-upload them.

Even pages with major edits, like the addition of a new image or a link to a PDF, can be re-uploaded with QUI!, as long as you then remember to upload the new image, PDF file, or other file (QUI! will not remind you to upload them).

If you prefer the comfort of having SBI! tell you what referenced files to also upload, use Upload Your Own HTML to re-upload existing page files.

SBI! Includes

If you don't use the Upload Your Own HTML module to upload your site's pages, you can skip this section.

Directions for Use
  • Click on the Browse button (Choose File if using Safari). Navigate to the Include file you want to (re-)upload.
  • Click on the Open button (Choose in Safari).
  • Repeat the first two steps for each file you want to upload.
  • If you want to upload more than 10 files, click on Add More Files.... This will display buttons to upload 10 more files. Repeat for additional files.
  • Click on the Upload It/Them! button at the top or bottom of the page.
  • Review the list of files uploaded to confirm that all files were uploaded successfully.

If you upload your pages, you most likely use several SBI! Includes so that you can easily replace content across parts of or your entire site.

QUI! lets you upload, or re-upload, those Includes.

Once uploaded, each Include file will be included in the SBI! Includes section of Special File Manager.

After (re-)uploading your Include files, you'll see a button that will take you directly to Special File Manager. You can also return to QUI!, or go to Site Central.

Image Files

Directions for Use
  • Click on the Browse button (Choose File if using Safari). Navigate to the image file you want to (re-)upload.
  • Click on the Open button (Choose in Safari).
  • Repeat the first two steps for each file you want to upload.
  • If you want to upload more than 10 files, click on Add More Files.... This will display buttons to upload 10 more files. Repeat for additional files.
  • Click on the Upload It/Them! button at the top or bottom of the page.
  • Review the list of files uploaded to confirm that all files were uploaded successfully.

QUI! allows you to upload images up to 100 KB in size directly to the image-files folder of your site. This can be especially useful if you have gallery pages with many images on them.

As long as you're certain that the images will display properly on the page (for example, you viewed the page in Quick Preview It!), use QUI! to upload the images quickly.

Then use UYOH to upload the page file itself. This will give you a quick indication that all of the images were uploaded properly. Any that you may have missed will be highlighted in red text.

You can also re-upload existing images. If you added a watermark, or a special sale banner to an image, save it with the same file name and use QUI! to have it displaying on your site without having to rebuild any pages.

The image types you can upload are GIF (.gif extension), JPG (.jpg) and PNG (.png).

You cannot upload your favicon using QUI!. You must use Fav It! for that upload.

Important Note

There is no limit when you upload images using the Image Library, or when uploading them along with your page files in UYOH.

If you reach your QUI! storage limit (100 MB), you can revert to using UYOH to upload all of your site's images. If you still need room for support and media files, consider deleting some of the images you uploaded with QUI!, then re-upload them by editing the relevant pages and uploading them with UYOH. If you use the Image Library, upload them there.

Building With Blocks?

If you use BlockBuilder (and you're comfortable with HTML), you can still use QUI! to upload images. Keep in mind though that the images will not appear in your Image Library, so you won't be able to use them with the Image Block in BlockBuilder. You'll have to add HTML tags to Raw HTML blocks to display the images on your pages.

See the General Tips section in the Special File Manager help for the HTML tag to use to add images to Raw HTML blocks.

After (re-)uploading your image files, which go into the image-files folder on your site, you'll see a button that will take you directly to Special File Manager. You can also return to QUI!, or go to Site Central.

Support Files

Directions for Use
  • Click on the Browse button (Choose File if using Safari). Navigate to the support file you want to (re-)upload.
  • Click on the Open button (Choose in Safari).
  • Repeat the first two steps for each file you want to upload.
  • If you want to upload more than 10 files, click on Add More Files.... This will display buttons to upload 10 more files. Repeat for additional files.
  • Click on the Upload It/Them! button at the top or bottom of the page.
  • Review the list of files uploaded to confirm that all files were uploaded successfully.

QUI! lets you upload, and re-upload, support files for your site.

This includes...

Any file type not listed here cannot be uploaded with QUI! or with UYOH.

Building With Blocks?

If you use SiteBuilder, you also use QUI! to upload support files. You'll then have two options to present the files on your pages.

See the General Tips section in the Special File Manager help for those options.

After (re-)uploading your support files, which go into the support-files folder on your site, you'll see a button that will take you directly to Special File Manager. You can also return to QUI!, or go to Site Central.

Media Files

Directions for Use
  • Click on the Browse button (Choose File if using Safari). Navigate to the media file you want to (re-)upload.
  • Click on the Open button (Choose in Safari).
  • Repeat the first two steps for each file you want to upload.
  • If you want to upload more than 10 files, click on Add More Files.... This will display buttons to upload 10 more files. Repeat for additional files.
  • Click on the Upload It/Them! button at the top or bottom of the page.
  • Review the list of files uploaded to confirm that all files were uploaded successfully.

QUI! lets you upload, and re-upload, all the media files you might want to have on your site.

This includes...

Any file type not listed here cannot be uploaded with QUI! or with UYOH.

Building With Blocks?

If you use SiteBuilder, you also use QUI! to upload media files. You'll then have two options to present the files on your pages.

See the General Tips section in the Special File Manager help for those options.

After (re-)uploading your media files, which go into the media-files folder on your site, you'll see a button that will take you directly to Special File Manager. You can also return to QUI!, or go to Site Central.