Need tutorial Help... I need to make a landing page for my URL... I have Zero experience!

[V4Vendetta]

Ok, so heres my situation....
I Wanted to make a custom "Under Construction" landing page under my Url.
I went ahead and got a shared hosting server for my url.
But right no, it's blank, and looks like this:

http://s4.postimg.org/waauemg1p/landingpage.jpg

So my question is... in the mean time is there something I can do myself to make a temp landing "Under Construction" Page for my URl?
At least until I have the money to hire a designer to make a website for me?

Please keep in mind that I am a total noob when it comes to webdesign.
I've never seen or worked with web design software

 

[CPUd]

How do you log into your host? When you signed up for hosting, they should have sent you some info on how to login. I am guessing they have a CPanel interface, or at the very least a shell or FTP login.

 

[V4Vendetta]

Yes, a CPanel

 

[Jan2017]

WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get

WYSIWYG editors - like Microsoft Frontpage or Adobe Dreamweaver are very easy -
a split screen will show you the code it produces, on a page that you could make up like a Word document.

Slap in (Insert) a picture even for your Under Construction page - selling widgets (?), then throw in a jpg of your "widget" or a coffee cup or American flag or whatever.

I am sure there is a WYSIWYG editor that is free, or has a free trial download.
Then, make the page called "yourwebsitedomain/index.html" and a click in Dreamweaver etc. with your webserver login will "FTP upload"

It is truly as easy as making a Word document page in the simplest forms - even link to your other pages (page2 . . .) as well.

List of HTML editors here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_HTML_editors
- I'm sure you could get started with a free download trial from someone listed.

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Oops . . . my bad - MS Frontpage is no more, as below Sea Monkey is worth a try imho.

 

[Jan2017]

Hah . . . Sea Monkey is listed on that page, probably the third most popular html editor imo and definitely free.

Download free (for Windows operating sysytems) the .exe (execute) file at:
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

Install wizard will pop up and you'll get started in about the next few minutes.

Good luck, and let us know how it turns out 'fer ya'

 

[CPUd]

Yes, a CPanel

Look for "File Manager" (image below will probably be slightly different):

It should ask you which directory to open it, choose "web root"

You can create and edit a new file there, call it index.html

You don't really have to use html for this. If you just want "under construction", just type it plaintext

 

[westkyle]

Ok, so heres my situation....
I Wanted to make a custom "Under Construction" landing page under my Url.
I went ahead and got a shared hosting server for my url.
But right no, it's blank, and looks like this:

http://s4.postimg.org/waauemg1p/landingpage.jpg

So my question is... in the mean time is there something I can do myself to make a temp landing "Under Construction" Page for my URl?
At least until I have the money to hire a designer to make a website for me?

Please keep in mind that I am a total noob when it comes to webdesign.
I've never seen or worked with web design software

Did you get it working? PM me if you need a hand. I have a little experience dealing with html/css/programming. BTW, your inbox is full.

 

[V4Vendetta]

Ill work on this tomorrow

 

[V4Vendetta]

BTW, your inbox is full.

I know, I just deleted some

 

[V4Vendetta]

Ok I was able to figure out how to upload a image through the file manager, But I Don't see how to make that image my background.
I also want to put a view counter on my webpage.
I looked up Dreamweaver and it's too expensive
Any help?

 

[westkyle]

Ok I was able to figure out how to upload a image through the file manager, But I Don't see how to make that image my background.
I also want to put a view counter on my webpage.
I looked up Dreamweaver and it's too expensive
Any help?

I'm sure you could find dreamweaver some where... *hint* *hint*

Alternatives to Dreamweaver:
http://www.hostsearch.com/articles/the-5-best-free-wysiwyg-alternatives-to-dreamweaver.asp

On the index.html page you need to set the body tag to "<body background="your_image_here.jpg">". Instead of doing that you can make a certain amount of whitespace and then insert the image where you want it.

For the counter you could implement a php script or something like that. I'd have to google it. Word press would make it pretty easy, probably.

 

[Jan2017]

Ok I was able to figure out how to upload a image through the file manager, But I Don't see how to make that image my background.
I also want to put a view counter on my webpage.
I looked up Dreamweaver and it's too expensive
Any help?

try Sea Monkey - WYSIWYG - free

 

[CPUd]

Dreamweaver is too much for someone who has 0 experience. You need a text editor that can do things like syntax highlight and match tags, like Notepad++ or Sublime Text.

I recommend to spend about a day here:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_basic.asp

Body background attribute is deprecated, or will be soon. This page shows you how to do it in style tags with CSS:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_css.asp


But you would change 'background' to 'background-image' like:

body {
    background-image: url("paper.gif");
    background-color: #cccccc;
}

 

[V4Vendetta]

I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself.

I looked that up... first time in years... sad to realize that amount of people will probably never get together again to organize like we did then.
Anyway.. I'll be working on my page again soon... too tired right now