I just bought some domains from 1&1.com which came with a free website-builder program, with lots of templates and ready-made pages and stuff…but holy mother of Christ, is this a horrible program. It is just absolutely clunky and way too simplistic and offers virtually no customization beyond the very narrow templates that come with it.
I have had a Geocities page for years (you can see it in when you click my username) and I always found Geocities PageBuilder to be extremely easy to use. Just a simple drag and drop interface that lets you put the fucking element on your page the way you want them to be arranged - how hard is that? Hard, apparently for the people who made the 1&1 page builder.
If there’s no way of making an effective and simple page using that site, can I use a program like Dreamweaver or Frontpage or something to make the page how I want it? How do you upload a page that you built onto the domain provided by 1&1?
I’m at my wits end - all help would be greatly appreciated.
Basic HTML is really easy to learn!!
But before we go there, do you have a graphics program that you can make a mock-up of how you want your basic page design to look? Even MS Paint will work. If you can send or post a .gif or .jpg of a page design, I will turn it into an html page for you.
Then, you can look at the code and read through it – which is the best way to learn html yourself.
Also, in order to upload a page you built yourself onto your domain, you just need an FTP client. Do you use Firefox? If so, I HIGHLY recommend the FireFTP extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/684
Then you just upload your files from your computer onto your web hosting server. You will just need your login credentials for your hosting account.
Isn’t there just some way of doing this with an easy-to-use program? I have to do this for work related things and I don’t have time to teach myself HTML; I just want to be able to drag and drop the goddamn things onto the page the way I want them. I’ve been tinkering with Microsoft Publisher, which is far more agreeable to me, but I still can’t figure out basic shit like being able to center the whole page so that it is centered when viewed in a browser. The GeoCities page builder was so simple and easy to use - why in Christ’s name are all these other programs so hard? If Geocities wasn’t going out of business I would have just upgraded to a Geocities Pro domain. I’m at my wit’s end here, please help.
By the way, when I was in New York I created a design for a track suit based on the patterns from the painting of the Earl of Dorset that you liked so much. I emailed you the picture.
I installed the FireFTP thing. It allowed me to connect to the server I set up on 1&1.com. Okay, good. But once I’m there I have no idea what to do. I uploaded the simple page that I created in Publisher, and titled it “index”, and now it displays when I go to my website, but the image doesn’t show up. How do I upload the image to the FTP thing and get it to show up on my webpage? And how do I go about adding other sub-pages I’ve created to the FTP account?
Images have to be relative. So you should have a folder labelled “images” and all graphics go in there. Then make sure that in the HTML, the images are referenced relative to your page, and not hardcoded as a fixed URL.
Good: <img src=“images/photo01.jpg”>
Bad: <img src=“C:\My Documents\Webpage\images\photo01.jpg”>