hello - new guy - need some guidance

[NotSoGood]

Hi, I think I have a relatively easy question!

I have learned some html code over the years. But I have always used it to design EZboard pages..which sort of has a customized interface...where you enter the html web code and it appears on the EZ board page as you enter it.

My problem is...I now want to design a stand alone website. I have a hosting account with omnis. My problem is that I dont know how to publish the code that I have written. Its currently just sitting in a word document. So how/where does one place written code to get it on a hosted website? Do I need publishing software.

There is a ton of info on the net to learn about codes and format of webpages...but not much on how to just "publish it".

If anyone could help, I would appreciate it. If you know of any online articles..that would be beneficial too.

Thanks,

Jeff

[felgall]

The first thing you need to do is to get it out of Word by saving it as plain text. Word is just about the worst choice of editor to use to write HTML because it will add all sorts of garbage to your source code to totally stuff it up.

Once you have the page saved properly as plain text with an extention of .htm or .html then you upload it to your site using an FTP program. There are plenty of them available for download from the web if you don't already have one.

[LJK]

Hi -
File Zilla's a good one - basically, set-up the site on your computer w/ a site folder, all .html pages inside of it, an images folder w/ all pics/graphics in there, also. Make sure your links are relative: "images/mypic.jpg" and working, then open the ftp program.

Your host's got an htdocs or public_html folder waiting for you on the server - which is where your stuff should go. Drag the local files and folders [left side view] into the remote directory [right side view] once connected to your host & in the public-html folder.

When you're done, check the url [index.html is normally the default 'home'] and see if your site comes up & that all is working well - links, images, etc.

Felgall's got a great point, tho! There are inexpensive [TSW Web Coder] and free [html-kit] programs out there that'll help you to do a lot more - for a lot less garbage.
They'll also usually include some built-in FTP action, as well.

It helps SO much to know what the tags are, how they display, etc. that it's worth it to learn html - and css, at the same time.

Good luck,
El