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    I'm new to this...

    Hello

    I'm new to web design so I don't know much about it and I want to make a new website. I've got my domain and my webhost but I'm a bit lost as to where to go from there. Where and how exactly do I start putting in the HTML codes to make my website? If anyone could help me and show me how to get started, I would really appreciate it!

    Thanks, XO'keefe

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    Re: I'm new to this...

    Wrong place, think this belong in Programming Help

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    Re: I'm new to this...

    First of all, this forum is for posting tutorials, not for requesting them.

    Secondly, make your html files with all your html code in them, by either using something like Dreamweaver or notepad. Once you have those files, you must upload them to the webserver by using either ftp or the file manager in cPanel. If you need help with these things, just search google.

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    Re: I'm new to this...

    Quote Originally Posted by LveCntSveYou View Post
    Hello

    I'm new to web design so I don't know much about it and I want to make a new website. I've got my domain and my webhost but I'm a bit lost as to where to go from there. Where and how exactly do I start putting in the HTML codes to make my website? If anyone could help me and show me how to get started, I would really appreciate it!

    Thanks, XO'keefe
    OOOKK... big subject!

    Forgive me if I sound patronising in this but I am assuming you know nothing!

    First of all, each page is a saved file that can be any number of types (e.g. html, htm, shtml, xhtml, php, asp etc. etc.)

    Once you have created a page on your computer (htm or html is basic), you then have to "upload" it or use file transfer protocol (ftp) to your server. You will need to provide your username and password to connect with your server. Browsers looking at your site are then viewing these uploaded files.

    As Dan has pointed out, you could use cPanel (file manager) which will upload these for you unless you have something cool like dreamweaver to help you along the way.

    If you don't have a wysiwyg editor (like Dreamweaver), you'll have to use notepad to literally write code line by line.

    This is a huge area and it would be simpler to explain what you want and let us try to help you.

    That said, w3schools.com is a really good place to start.

    A simple (very simple) piece of starting code for you below

    Code:
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title>Give your document a title here</title>
    </head>
    <body>
    Put your content here...
    </body>
    </html>
    Hope this helps a little...

    Oooh - another good tip:

    "root" folder is the top level folder on your server

    When an address is put into a browser (such as www.yoursite.com), the browser needs to view a file so it defaults to the index file (which is in your root)

    eg index.html

    This is your main page
    Last edited by freecrm; 11-29-2008 at 02:45 PM.

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    Re: I'm new to this...

    I think you know html but don't know where to put it right? if so

    first of all create a file named index.html

    that would be your starting point now let's say you have an <a href='link.html'>link here</a> tag then you would create a separate link.html file. Then when you upload your files you must place it under Public Html folder (x10hosting) when it asks to overwrite just click yes. take note that different servers have different structures.

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