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I wanted to create a sales page to stick into emails or perhaps even incorporate into my website. A friend of a friend did it for me and sent it along in a zip file. I opened it up and extracted the files. The document looks great but its in HTML and I don't know where to go from here.

I don't want to go back to the creator, since he did this as a favor and is very busy. Can I move this HTML document to a stand along page in my website? Can I convert it to a file to use in emails? I am not very computer savvy and could use some guidance here.

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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    If it is a HTML file - it is a "stand alone" web page... hopefully. If the code starts with <html> and it ends with </html> - it means it is a complete web page and you just need to upload it to your hosted domain for the world to see it.

    Email? Yes and no.
    I could do what you want but most likely you cannot. Because it requires more than basic html editing skills.

    Reminder: for a sales page you will also need Buy button(s) and a payment processor.
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  • Profile picture of the author yanl
    Do you currently have a hosting? Upload the contents of the zip to a test folder to see what the current page can do. Ie Check if the buy button is clickable and if all the pictures are appearing.
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  • Profile picture of the author curationsoft
    yes you can add it to your website as subdomain, just upload the file to your cpanel and change the details according to your information. you can use the subdomain link in sending promotion by email.
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    • Profile picture of the author mangarola
      Thanks for the suggestions.

      The page is actually for a series of eBooks that I am selling through Amazon Kindle. The page links go directly to the books on Amazon, so I don't have buy button.
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  • Profile picture of the author darlanne
    You definitely need to have hosting, for any of it to show up online. You'd need to access your FTP manager (once you have hosting, or if you already do), and create a subfolder off the main root. Upload all files directly into that sub folder, keeping the hierarchy in tact. You should then be able to access the main HTML file by typing in the URL of the subfolder you created, in your browser.

    For example, if your hosted domain is www.mydomain.com ...
    create a subfolder, which then becomes www.mydomain.com/mysubfolder (whatever you name it)
    Upload the files in the zip ... and based on the name of the HTML file (usually index.html), you should be able to access it via:

    www.mydomain.com/mysubfolder/index.html (though if it is index.html, you will not even need to type that in, as that is the default file)
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    • Profile picture of the author mangarola
      Darlanne - I did exactly the steps you suggested and when I named my subfolder I came up with the following error message:

      "Error: The following character may not be part of the a title or directory name:/"

      I sure I'm just missing some basic step here. Hope you can help.
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      • Profile picture of the author webworksbd
        okay,
        the best thing is, if you make a screen shot and then upload here. So, that we can understand this better.

        If you want to send over email. So we suppose that you are using any newsletter service like , mailchimp or constant contact.

        If you use mailchip then you also can import your html file there and it will work. but for your image you need to give the absolute path. In this case you must need a hosting space or for image you can use any imagehosting service and get the image url after upload the image and put it at mailchimp.

        So it will be great if you can upload a screen shot here.
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        Originally Posted by mangarola View Post

        Darlanne - I did exactly the steps you suggested and when I named my subfolder I came up with the following error message:

        "Error: The following character may not be part of the a title or directory name:/"

        I sure I'm just missing some basic step here. Hope you can help.
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  • Profile picture of the author David V
    darlanne did not say nor was implying you should have a forward slash "/" in the subfolder name.

    www.mydomain.com/mysubfolder (whatever you name it)

    Just give it a simple straight name.
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