# Help me make a simple webpage
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-simple-webpage/499910
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [June 16, 2009, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-simple-webpage/499910 "2009-06-16T04:48:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2009, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-simple-webpage/499910/1 "2009-06-16T04:48:19Z")
I just bought some domains from 1&[1.com](http://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.
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### Author:  [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2009, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-simple-webpage/499910/2 "2009-06-16T07:38:54Z")
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](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.
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### Author:  [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2009, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-simple-webpage/499910/3 "2009-06-16T08:01:44Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2009, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-simple-webpage/499910/4 "2009-06-16T08:31:30Z")
I installed the FireFTP thing. It allowed me to connect to the server I set up on 1&[1.com](http://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?
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2009, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-simple-webpage/499910/5 "2009-06-16T09:20:29Z")
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.
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