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" "[URL]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd[/URL]">
<html xmlns="[URL]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml[/URL]">
<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
