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My 'first' Website...a question

by GaryDunsfordOnline
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Hi All,

Hope I find you all well.

I am building my first website (well actually I have some pages I want to have hosted).

I have the graphics etc saved in an index file.

My question is, the main page is in the index folder. However, how do I add other pages i.e about us, contact us etc etc?
Do i make a subfolder within index and upload the files there or is it done a different way ? i am using coffee cup as my HTML editor and filezilla to upload to my host, who is hostgator.

Many thanks,

Gary
#question #websitea
  • Profile picture of the author Daniel Rickfold
    just create more .html files in the same place as the index.html file.

    You can either duplicate the index.html and edit it, add other content & rename it or you can start with a blank page!
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  • Profile picture of the author lonestar164
    Just to emphasize something antipot said, you will need to have a different name for each page for them to exist in the same folder. Congratulations on your first site. I think I used CoffeeCup when I first started too.
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  • Profile picture of the author healtheworld
    Originally Posted by GaryDunsfordOnline View Post

    My question is, the main page is in the index folder. However, how do I add other pages i.e about us, contact us etc etc?
    Do i make a subfolder within index and upload the files there or is it done a different way ? i am using coffee cup as my HTML editor and filezilla to upload to my host, who is hostgator.
    You can upload them in the same folder as the main page or in a subdirectory, it's your choice.

    The important thing here is that you should refer to the files appropriately meaning

    if you put them in a subdirectory for example you put them under a subdirectory called "details" then the link to those html files should be

    a href="/details/contact-us.html"

    or if you're going to upload them in the same folder as the main page then

    a href="contact-us.html"

    I didn't complete the html tags obviously but I hope you see my point

    from the above example this would be the structure

    index folder
    - contains the main page (index.html, index.htm)
    details folder
    - contact-us.html
    - about-us.html

    - or -

    just

    index folder
    - contains the main page (index.html, index.htm), contact-us.html, about-us.html, etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author Adam Roy
    If you're just starting out. I highly recommend using wordpress to build your sites. Extremely easy and hold your hand style layout for them.
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  • Profile picture of the author johnsongt
    You can keep it all in public_html folder or create subfolder for the other sites its really up to you.
    cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author jhoney142
    hi,

    just create more .html files in the same place as the index.html file.
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  • Profile picture of the author jhon_belli
    I am trying to create my site. so it is question of me also.
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  • Profile picture of the author chuawenching
    should organise your files into folders, easier to manage later
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  • Profile picture of the author writestuph
    If you're building your first webiste I'd recommend using hostgator's cpanel and sitebuilder which comes with their webhosting package. It's a much more user-friendly interface for creating and managing your website. I put up this site, linked in my signature, within the last twenty four hours using sitebuilder and cpanel. Good luck.
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