Questions on Launching Website

All the tutorials have been great so far, but I was hoping you could expand on the uploading content stage. Getting a domain name, server space (used Dreamhost like you showed), and accessing the sftp server through Cyberduck was fairly straightforward but simply dragging and dropping the files we worked on has not seemed to work for me.

First off, the sftp already had 3 directories in it when I got to it - logs, maildir, and (the domain name).com. First, I dragged and dropped the files like you showed but the site just displayed dreamhost's same default content when I viewed it.

Next I tried deleting all the folders that were in there and then loading my content. This resulted in 403 permission error so I put it all back in there but the error still didnt go away. The folks at Dreamhost changed the permissions (I think just back to what they were before) but I still haven't wrapped my head around how to fix it if it happens again.

Finally, I started getting somewhere by deleting the content out of '(the domain name).com' folder and replacing it with my files but when I open it in the browser (safari and chrome) it does not show up like if does when I open it from my computer. After looking at it with the developer tool on safari, the normalize.css and grid.css files are showing up red so I'm guessing they are having trouble being referenced, do you know what might be causing this? I have tried it with my file as well as with the final project files folder download and neither have worked.