# general website building help - possibly using hostpapa
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-website-building-help-possibly-using-hostpapa/481791
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [January 17, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-website-building-help-possibly-using-hostpapa/481791 "2009-01-17T23:06:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Yzingerr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yzingerr)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-website-building-help-possibly-using-hostpapa/481791/1 "2009-01-17T23:06:50Z")
I can use the basics of frontpage and dreamweaver.
I am usuing [www.hostpapa.com](http://www.hostpapa.com) as a host.
I have pages built from dreamweaver.
How do i upload the dreamweaver webpage i created so that it is the homepage on the site?
When I click on the webpage it shows the uploaded webpage i created along with other indexes.
I have to click on the webpage link to display it… and its not the homepage.
The homepage shows:
Index of /
mydomainname.com.htm (my frontpage page)
White plate.jpg (the picture for it)
contact/
images/
photos/
postinfo.html
Apache/2.2.9 (Unix) mod\_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8b mod\_auth\_passthrough/2.1 mod\_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at [www.mydomainname.com](http://www.mydomainname.com) Port 80
HELP! Thanks a bunch for any help!
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### Author:  [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2009, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-website-building-help-possibly-using-hostpapa/481791/2 "2009-01-17T23:28:19Z")
It’s been a long time since I’ve used Frontpage, but I think this is what the “Publishing” feature does.
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### Author:  [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-website-building-help-possibly-using-hostpapa/481791/3 "2009-01-17T23:46:36Z")
Your home page has to be named so that the server recognizes it as the default home page. Rename your home page to index.html
Dreamweaver has its own FTP function so you can upload/download files.
Don’t mix FP-generated and DW-generated web pages on the same site. FP doesn’t play well.
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### Author:  [@Yzingerr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yzingerr)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2009, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-website-building-help-possibly-using-hostpapa/481791/4 "2009-01-17T23:49:39Z")
> [@Duckster](#):
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> Your home page has to be named so that the server recognizes it as the default home page. Rename your home page to index.html
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> Dreamweaver has its own FTP function so you can upload/download files.
>
> Don’t mix FP-generated and DW-generated web pages on the same site. FP doesn’t play well.
I will rename it,
thanks for the info about not mixing… i never thought of that! :smack:
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### Author:  [@hobscrk777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hobscrk777)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2009, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-website-building-help-possibly-using-hostpapa/481791/5 "2009-01-17T23:50:03Z")
I’m not sure I completely understood your OP, but you might need to name your home page “index.html”
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### Author:  [@Yzingerr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yzingerr)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2009, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-website-building-help-possibly-using-hostpapa/481791/6 "2009-01-18T18:55:41Z")
success, thanks!
Ok Next question is:
**How do i make the links i created on the homepage go directly where they need to go?**
i.e. I have a “contact tab” on the homepage, but when clicked it goes to the:
\*Index of /contact
Parent Directory
Contact.htm
cgi-bin/
images/ \*
If you click \*contact.htm \*then it will go to the "contact page i created.
Im sure it is as simple as renaming too!?!
Thanks again guys!
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2009, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-website-building-help-possibly-using-hostpapa/481791/7 "2009-01-19T04:36:41Z")
The links have to go to the exactly named page. An anchor, or link, has two elements - the text that is clicked on: “contact page”, and the name of the page file itself: “contact.html”.
Make sure they’re both done and spelled correctly:
\contact page\
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2009, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-website-building-help-possibly-using-hostpapa/481791/8 "2009-01-19T04:45:21Z")
Huh. [Deja vu](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=502381).
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### Author:  [@Yzingerr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yzingerr)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2009, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-website-building-help-possibly-using-hostpapa/481791/9 "2009-01-19T05:27:34Z")
Ok, thanks guys!