A week or so ago I took advantage of a great deal being offered by dreamhost.com (email me if you want to know about it, I think advertising the deal here would go against board rules) and bought a website at a ridiculously low price. Problem is, I can’t get any content on it. I only have experience with Geocities-type webpage builders, where you go to the site and type in your content in a dialog box in HTML, and Dreamhost doesn’t have that. I’m seriously lost on how to put content on my webpage; I can write HTML just fine but I can’t figure out how to input it. Can anyone help?
First, you’re going to need an FTP program to upload your files. You can download a trial version off this site:
http://www.vista.ru/2inter.htm
Your webhost may also support file uploads from the admin screen, in which case, you can do that instead. Anyways, when you start up the FTP, enter your webpage’s name, login name and password, then click “connect.” This’ll connect you to your site, though you may have to navigate to a folder called “www” or “wwwroot,” this is where you’ll want to upload your webpages. Feel free to make whatever additional directories you’d like in this area.
Then write all of your HTML code into Notepad (If Windows: Start > Accessories, Notepad), then save the file as index.html and upload it to your webpage via the FTP. “Index” is the name that’s defaulted as your webpage. You could also name it whatever you want, but at least this way, when you type in your website’s url, it’ll take you right to that page.
After that, go back to the FTP, select the index.html file on your computer, then click the upload button (often represented by a right arrow), and there ya go!