Need help. Uploading templates and pre-made sales page without wordpress

by racso316

Posted: 16 years ago 10 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Hi warriors, basically, I only learnt how to build my website with wordpress. Pick a theme, upload it with ftp program, make posts and pages, etc.

The problem is, I want to buy some templates and sales pages (minisites, with header, footer, ecover, thank you page) for a product I want to sell, and they all sell it as HTML.

I want to be able to upload them to my site and create pages, and write on them and put the header and footer and make the thank you page, etc. without the use of wordpress, so I can buy the templates.

Anyone can offer any guidance, or if you have an ebook you are selling with this info, let me know, I'll buy it.

It felt really good creating my wordpress website for the first time. Now I see that it's pretty simple and I need to evolve to create different pages.

Thanks for your time and your help.

#page #premade #sales #templates #uploading #wordpress

Istvan Horvath 16 years ago

It's all basic HTML. A good place to start: W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

If you can upload a WP theme, the uploading process will be the same: you take ALL the files of the template (minisite) and upload them via FTP to your server. It is important that you keep the folder system exactly as it was when given to you: e.g. if the template has an index file, a thankyoupage etc. + a folder /images/ -- upload everything like that, keeping them in folders (directories).

If you have separate domain for each of them - upload to the root (usually, public_html in cPanel).
You can also upload them in different subdirectories on the same domain. In FTP right-click and select "Make directory" give it a name, clcik on it and upload the files.

It is quite simple.

For editing the html files I recommend PSPad - a free and excellent editor.

You don't really need any book if you spend some time on the w3school site...

Hope this helps.
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- vetzkov 16 years ago
  
  Hi!
  
  Apart from the great suggestions that Istvan gave you I would like to include few of my own.
  
  Maybe you should consider getting to know Adobe's Dreamweaver and for pure editing I recommend using Notepad++. One thing is for sure though, you don't need to purchase any books on that topic. Everything that needs to be said is already said in the majority of tutorial sites on the internet.
  
  The best way to learn is the trial-error method. Just get started, decide what you need to do, google it and see a solution, try it by yourself and you will remember how to do it everytime
  
  Best of luck.
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  All Night Cafe 16 years ago
  
  The two above posts give you great info.
  
  You could also get a free PLR ebook. It should
  come with all the pages you mention.
  
  Start with a few set of templates and when you
  feel comferable, buy the paid set.
  
  You'll do good.
  
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Istvan Horvath 16 years ago

To modify a pre-made template... DW is an overkill

As for the editors - they do very similar things. Try them both (since they are free) and see which one suits you better.

I have tried almost everything and settled with PSPad. But we all have different tastes, I guess.
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Valdor Kiebach 16 years ago

If you buy a product with resell rights it will come with a sales page usually, and the HTML might be commented where you need to edit it.

Have a look here to learn a bit of HTML:
HTML Tutorial

Get an HTML editor:
KompoZer - Easy web authoring

Learn how to use the editor by experimenting on a resell rights product sales page:
Nvu Tutorials
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NightWriter 16 years ago

I use Kompozer.com and gimp.com.

Kompozer is a great .html editor. You hit "source code" at the bottom and you can manipulate the code in your template directly, otherwise, you can change it just like you were editing a Word document. Very easy.

Gimp.com is good for editing images. It takes a little more finessing. Whenever I have a Q. about using it, I pop the question into a google search and get the solution.

I also like to edit images with inkscape.net

These are all open source applications. You can just go to those sites and download the programs. They're all pretty self-explanatory - except gimp! There's some stuff there I still haven't mastered (Gimp is similar to Adobe Dreamweaver).

Good luck!
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- Istvan Horvath 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by NightWriter
  
  (Gimp is similar to Adobe Dreamweaver
  
  Not really... more like the open source replacement of Photoshop...
  
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  Seattle Mike 16 years ago
  
  One suggestion that can really save you when editing templates.
  
  Before you start making your changes be sure to save a backup copy of your originals. Copy the files into a work in progress folder and only make your changes in there. So you have originals just in case you mess something up accidentally.
  
  Then you can safely try things out while you learn. Very easy to ruin a table or formatting
  
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racso316 16 years ago

I thanked you all guys.
I can't lie, it's kind of confusing right now with all the programs, etc. I won't ask any questions but go over the sites listed and then see what i can do.

Thanks again guys, really appreciate it.
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