Adding a re-direct page?

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I have basicly finished building my first page of my website but now i want to add another page that appears after people sign up.

The page is already made in html format but now i need to upload it to the site, i'm using Cpanel....i don't even know where to start???

So far i have put the html file on the "public_html" and it's just sitting there.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lucas92
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  • Profile picture of the author Eric S
    Lucas, First I would recommend downloading FileZilla for uploading things to your website. Next, you need to figure out the url to the second page you created. For example, it could be www.yoursite.com/secondpage

    Once you've found that, you'll need to put the code on your first page that will send them to the second page once they have signed up. Does that make sense?
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  • Profile picture of the author Lucas92
    Yea i understand that but i don't know where to place the second page in terms of files. :/
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  • Profile picture of the author postsalot
    It should go in the same root directory of the domain that your home page is loaded to. Then the link to it will be www.domain.com/newpage.html obviously with your page name and domain.

    You should get an FTP client such as Filezilla and find a quick tutorial on YouTube to get you going with it. FTP will save you a ton of time and frustration
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    • Profile picture of the author Lucas92
      Originally Posted by postsalot View Post

      It should go in the same root directory of the domain that your home page is loaded to. Then the link to it will be www.domain.com/newpage.html obviously with your page name and domain.

      You should get an FTP client such as Filezilla and find a quick tutorial on YouTube to get you going with it. FTP will save you a ton of time and frustration
      I have it in the same directory now but i'm struggling to write the code for the button. At the moment i have it as:

      Code:
      <input type="submit" class="submit_button" value="" onclick="location.href=rapidcommission.com/thankyou"/>
      But it still does nothing :S
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  • Profile picture of the author Lucas92
    Ok i have now made progress and have been able to link the button to the page. Now it seems the page layout is not correct and it isn't loading some images correctly. I cannot see the links in the HTML so do i have to change this in the CSS file or somthing?

    Plz help
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  • Profile picture of the author webpeon
    at a quick glance there seems to be alot of unmatched tags between your css and html on the thankyou page...

    for example, you have a header style in your css but nothing in your html to say where you want this header to be, that is assuming you havent done this purposely and just dont want the header to be there in which case, my mistake.

    my suggestion would be to work your way through both the css and html line by line and make sure everything is referenced in both the html and css.

    a couple other things ive noticed is you seem to have a seperate css page for both the home and thankyou page, which kinda defeats the purpose of having a css file in alot of ways as css files are a way of having all your styling in the same place. though there are times when multiple css files are useful, also theres alot of width css which could probably go, in alot of cases you can leave the width out and just use the content itself to determine the width of that certain section and lastly a big no no with css is to style both a width and padding in the same style, 90% of the time this will display fine the other 10% which you'll probably never hear about but will likely show from your stats, especially for users with an outdated IE browser

    ideally, create yourself a template css and html file that will have all the elements you require to be displayed on every page and just copy and paste the html file then customise it to suit the page you are working on

    good luck
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    • Profile picture of the author Lucas92
      Thanks for the really good reply man! Yea i do have 2 CSS files, I was not sure if the one CSS file for the home page would be suitable for the thank you page as well.

      I will try deleting one of the CSS files as I think this may be the problem, if that does not work then I will do the tedious task of working my way through each line of code!

      Will report back if i manage to get it all setup

      Also this is what the files look like at the moment, please say if you notice something wrong.

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