Simple WP and html question

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Hi Warriors,

I am looking to have my domain.com home page as a squeeze html page and then once signed up will go to a thank you page, however when i try to ftp the files to the main directory it doesnt do anything. Any ideas? it must be so simple... but im missing something

Do i have to do something in komposer to publish the page?

I also add a wp blog to domain.com/blog... i guess any pages with domain.com/blog/ xxxxx will be on wordpress and any other pages like domain.com/product1 would be html is that correct?

Thanks
Kev
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  • Profile picture of the author numbermoja
    It would be easier to have everything on a WPress. Because traditional static html can be a drag to edit and WP is much cleaner and easier to just create pages and have a neat link. What you can do is you have your website.com and create a website.com/thankyou page on your wordpress this way it is easier to edit and to update the pages from one source. Me personally I am trying to move all my static html pages to one place. I hope this helps.
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    • Profile picture of the author Michael Shook
      Originally Posted by numbermoja View Post

      It would be easier to have everything on a WPress. Because traditional static html can be a drag to edit and WP is much cleaner and easier to just create pages and have a neat link. What you can do is you have your website.com and create a website.com/thankyou page on your wordpress this way it is easier to edit and to update the pages from one source. Me personally I am trying to move all my static html pages to one place. I hope this helps.
      If he has a squeeze page template, that might not work to look the way he wants using a static page in wordpress. It depends on teh theme. Like Flexsqueeze allows custom html code for a page. I don't know if other themes do or not.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Shook
    Originally Posted by kevin Hislop View Post

    Hi Warriors,

    I am looking to have my domain.com home page as a squeeze html page and then once signed up will go to a thank you page, however when i try to ftp the files to the main directory it doesnt do anything. Any ideas? it must be so simple... but im missing something

    Do i have to do something in komposer to publish the page?

    I also add a wp blog to domain.com/blog... i guess any pages with domain.com/blog/ xxxxx will be on wordpress and any other pages like domain.com/product1 would be html is that correct?

    Thanks
    Kev
    When you are working to customize your squeeze page in kompozer, you have to make sure the file is named index.html. Then upload it to public html folder on your server. That is how your hosting knows that it is the home page.
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    • Profile picture of the author kevin Hislop
      Thanks for the responses.

      JmichaelZ - Thanks, i have made progress
      i guess if i make sub pages like domain.com/productreviews, i would have to create a folder in the public_html folder called productreviews then upload the pages as require like domain.com/productreviews/1 and /2 and so on.

      So anything i want on the domain has to be in the public folder?

      Thanks
      Kev

      Ps I agree that most of my stuff should be WP just cos of the ease, however i think a mixture gives a little more flexibilty... however i may be worng cos i cant even upload a simple html page lol
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      • Profile picture of the author Michael Shook
        Originally Posted by kevin Hislop View Post

        Thanks for the responses.

        JmichaelZ - Thanks, i have made progress
        i guess if i make sub pages like domain.com/productreviews, i would have to create a folder in the public_html folder called productreviews then upload the pages as require like domain.com/productreviews/1 and /2 and so on.

        So anything i want on the domain has to be in the public folder?

        Thanks
        Kev

        Ps I agree that most of my stuff should be WP just cos of the ease, however i think a mixture gives a little more flexibilty... however i may be worng cos i cant even upload a simple html page lol
        Well if you can do it in less than a week you will be way ahead of my first time. :-)

        If you are running on a linux hosting server your public folder will be public_html, and that is the folder you put your index.html page. I know there ar other configurations, but I only use that kind, so I am unfamiliar with what the others are called. but the idea is the same on all hosts 9to teh best of my knowledge).

        There is one folder on your host that your pages go into.

        You can make folders like that for your categories of various pages, but you don't have to. All of them can go into the public folder.

        So then your pages will have URL's like YourDomainName.com/mypageone.html
        YourDomainName.com/mypagetwo.html
        YourDomainName.com/mypagethree.html

        For secondary folders like YourDomainName.com/productreviews/productone.html, it kind of depends on how big you are planning on having your site to become. If you are only ever going to review the same product type, then you don't need a secondary folder.

        But if you are going to build a big site with reviews, and tips and your own products for sale - as an example - then secondary folders would be a good idea to start right now. Then you can avoid some redirecting hassle later on.
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    • Profile picture of the author kevin Hislop
      Thanks for all the help warriors much appreciated

      For this site, it will be relatively small... its for a offline consultancy business. but the info will help for future sites and i will keep all your comments in mind.

      Well, i now have a HTML optin and thank you page link to my wp blog Great help warriors

      Thanks
      Kev
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      • Profile picture of the author Michael Shook
        Originally Posted by kevin Hislop View Post

        Thanks for all the help warriors much appreciated

        For this site, it will be relatively small... its for a offline consultancy business. but the info will help for future sites and i will keep all your comments in mind.

        Well, i now have a HTML optin and thank you page link to my wp blog Great help warriors

        Thanks
        Kev
        Very cool.

        I wish you a great deal of success with your business.
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  • Profile picture of the author ganesh
    There is a separate section in this forum for all web design related questions. If you post there then the response will be quicker. You will find it here: Website Design. Anyway I will try to answer your question.


    You can use Kompozer to add the Auto responder code in your home page. When somebody signs in it is the auto responder code that sends them to the thank you page. You need to create that page and send it to the server by ftp. Now the squeeze page is your index.html file with the auto responder code and it will send the visitor to the thank you page after signup. You may name the thank you page something like thanks.html or else. Did you do that correctly?



    For the blog, it is correct and will work as you have mentioned.
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  • Profile picture of the author msj484
    I tried this once with one of my stores that I wanted to have a blog on the homepage. It more of a headache than it was actually worth. Listen to some of the others above that are telling you to just have a regular WP homepage.
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