Please help, I am really Completely Lost

[Completely Lost]

My name says it all I suppose. I have an Uncle that wants me to sale some od his property here in Illinois for him.(he lives in Oklahoma) I farm for a living myself but I am pretty good with Word, Excel, etc. so I thought I could do this right? Wrong. :D It is like a foreign language to me. I have created what will be my frontpage on word and I saved it as a webpage as index.html. so that I could try to transfer it to host monster. I just cant figure out how to do it. I follow the directions they give on getting started but I dont seem to be able to get anywhere. I am certain that it is my the fault of my own ignorance and not the instructions. Could anyone please help me understand how I should do this and then how to make it where my page can actually be viewed?

The next step will be to create a second page where I hope to insert 20 pictures of the property that can be enlarged when they are clicked if that is possible. Any advice in advance will be greatly appreciated. I even considered hiring someone to do thios project for me but I dont even know where to turn for that.

Thank you in advance

Brad

[milesy]

get an FTP transfer program like Cute FTP (http://www.cuteftp.com/cuteftp/) and place your index.htm + Index_Files folder into the folder on your server named public_html.

It's that simple.

I personally started creating web pages with MS Publisher and I believe it is much easier than anything else. You can easily create mulitple page websites and hyperlink all of your images. If you want to hyperlink your images make them point to a folder in your public_html folder on the server such as "bigger" just make sure that for any file including pictures to download that there is never a space in the name or it will not work.... example "picture 001.jpg" will not work.. but "picture_001.jpg" will.

[Completely Lost]

Thank you for the information. I am going to check it out. Hopefully it can sort of walk me through the process.

Thanks again.:)

[adrianb]

You can also try using the File Manager from Cpanel that comes with your account. This website has info on how to use it.

http://www.cpanel.net/docs/cpanel/File_Manager.htm

You can just go to the public_html folder (click the yellow folder) and click upload file.

ex. upload completelylost.html

then in your browser, http://mywebsite.com/completelylost.html

[Completely Lost]

Ok, I have the download and I actually have a site finally. Now I need to know why the background and the photos that I had for the frontpage didnt make the webpage when I transferred the file. All I have is a white backgrounfd and blank spaces where the photos are on my word page. Does that make any sense to you guys? I know I am an idiaot at this but could you be patient and help an idiot a little bit more. LOL

Thank you so much

Brad

[shadmego]

You have to make sure that your html code is correct. What happens is the browser looks for your pictures where you html code says they are. If you pictures are in a location that is not relected in your code, then you will get a blank box with a red x in the upper left corner.

If you do a search for this in the forums, you will find ample information on how to fix the problem. Also remember to upload your pictures in the same location you referenced them in your code as well.

~regards, and welcome to the community!
Shadmego

[Completely Lost]

Thank you very much. I have the pictures on the page now. Now I just have to put in a hyperlink to another page that will have all of my thumbnails, Of course I have no idea how to do that but I will search the forums and I will figure it out. Its quite a feeling of accoplishment when you finally get things right. :D

Thank to all

[shadmego]

In HTML, you can insert hyperlinks by using the <a href></a> tags.

It works like this:

If you want to link to any page in your site, you have to create a hyperlink. So you have you index.html page. You also have your pictures page, let's name it pictures.html.

Inside your index.html page (in the html code) you would put the following line of code:

<a href="pictures.html">Click here to see my pictures!</a>

So inside the quotes, you would put the location and name of the file you want to link to. Inbetween these: >< , you would put the description you want others to see. Using the able example, your index.html page would so the following line in the browser:

Click here to see my pictures! (http://#)

Clicking on the link would take visitors to the pictures.html page. The above link is dead.

~regards,
Shadmego

[ewm]

Thank you very much. I have the pictures on the page now. Now I just have to put in a hyperlink to another page that will have all of my thumbnails, Of course I have no idea how to do that but I will search the forums and I will figure it out. Its quite a feeling of accoplishment when you finally get things right. :D

Thank to all

If I may make a suggestion - if you have a bunch of pictures to display, and you're having a lot of problem making the pages, I'd suggest using Google's Picassa service. It's free, and you can upload up to 250MB of images. You can set up a redirect on hostmonster to the Picassa URL, and it will be seamless.

There are several great programs out there that will help you assemble and creat image pages, the best free one I know of is Irfanview. It can be downloaded from www.irfanview.com. It's totally free, no spyware or junk, just a neat little app created by a guy that asks no money for his work.

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Thanks again. Everyone is so helpful here. I appreciate all the information. I will keep you posted on my progress.

Thanks you