Building a website - Where to start

welshdragon · 16 Dec 2011 at 13:33

I'd like to do the two together ideally. As in learn as I build my own. Would be good if I could find an easy to follow 'project' where the end result is my website.

Looking to build a simple website with product reviews and link to a well known retailers associate programme through the inclusion of their tags

welshdragon · 16 Dec 2011 at 14:44

Have been mucking about with some code and I ahve a html file. When I upload it to tso host and access my webpage it says

index of/ and a file list

How do I upload the html file so that navigating to the address opens the webpage?

Tripnologist · 16 Dec 2011 at 14:51

It's entirely up to you as to how you learn.

Why don't you learn html/css by creating your own theme and then putting it into wordpress and setting everything up.

name it index.html and make sure it's in your public_html folder.

welshdragon · 16 Dec 2011 at 14:58

Decided to start from scratch. Seem to be learning basic elemenst quite quickly this last hour. Made a simple web page whcih I'm trying to publish but it is driving me up the wall.

3dcandy · 16 Dec 2011 at 18:47

index.htm should work too. What are you using to make the webpage, and are you ftp'ing it up?

welshdragon · 18 Dec 2011 at 15:44

No ftp, 1 step at a time, though I think Filezilla will be my next port of call. The lovely people at TSO host have sent me a guide. Hand coding in HTML to learn, surprising how quickly I am getting to grips with it.

Now to get learning some css.....

3dcandy · 18 Dec 2011 at 17:34

how are you transferring it to tsohost then? FTP is real easy to use....

welshdragon · 18 Dec 2011 at 21:13

Logging into cpanel through the tso host site and clicking upload

3dcandy · 18 Dec 2011 at 21:43

okey dokey, but believe me filezilla is much easier when you start transferring a whole directory of files..couple clicks and leave it to do its thang!

welshdragon · 22 Dec 2011 at 13:36

Yes filezilla is next on the agenda. Gonna have a look at some basic css next to change the layout of what I have done so far. Learning by doing.

welshdragon · 26 Dec 2011 at 00:10

Anyone know where I can get a HTML reference sheet from. Something that looks and is formatted really nice?

lloydsj · 26 Dec 2011 at 09:29

http://htmldog.com/

RickST · 26 Dec 2011 at 11:42

sounds like you are going about things in the right way.

try not to rush anything and look at each tiny aspect of the project/page as its own challenge to do perfectly. You may have to rewrite the same nav 6 times before you find the correct css/html but its worth it.

also in terms of CMS my opinion is:

very small site = Manual (do it yourself)
small to medium sized site = WordPress
large site (100s pages, lots of users, bespoke functionality) = Drupal

welshdragon · 27 Dec 2011 at 12:53

lloydsj said:
http://htmldog.com/

Thank you, after something I can print with theactually format of the elements etc. Though that would appear a handy reference.