What is the best way to make a free website for someone who has next to no HTML skill

mr.sly · 20 Sep 2008 at 21:52

yantorsen said:
oh, only the addons folder appears to be there

That's the problem then, haha. Just upload the rest of the folders and you should be good to go.

yantorsen · 20 Sep 2008 at 21:54

mr.sly said:
That's the problem then, haha. Just upload the rest of the folders and you should be good to go.

yeah, I hope so anyway

Thanks for all the help so far btw :cool:

yantorsen · 20 Sep 2008 at 22:00

It keeps disconnecting and then when it does conect its uploading the files at 0.1kb/s :/

yantorsen · 20 Sep 2008 at 23:22

I'm not sure what to do about this?

yantorsen · 21 Sep 2008 at 00:10

ok managed to play around and get past that, I'm stuck here now...

mr.sly · 21 Sep 2008 at 00:20

You've missed off the name.

For exampe if the user was called 'pixel' it would be 'a6569019_pixel'

yantorsen · 21 Sep 2008 at 00:23

mr.sly said:
You've missed off the name.

For exampe if the user was called 'pixel' it would be 'a6569019_pixel'

ah cheers

yantorsen · 21 Sep 2008 at 00:38

yay I got it working

Thanks, how do you apply those templates?

my sites URL is www.joshuathomson.site90.com

or www.joshuathomsonphotography.tk

yantorsen · 21 Sep 2008 at 01:02

oh and how do you edit the abut page?

mr.sly · 21 Sep 2008 at 01:30

Messiah Khan will be able to help you out with how to edit it, I haven't used it myself. I'd guess it's in the admin section somewhere...

http://www.joshuathomson.site90.com/admin/

And for the templates, you should be able to just upload them, into templates folder over FTP. Then it will show up in the Control Pane for PixelPost I would imagine.

Messiah Khan · 21 Sep 2008 at 12:27

Yeah, just add a folder to the templates folder, then go to admin page/options/templates and choose the template. Then start having fun with addons (generally come with step by step guides) and learn basic css and html to modify it to your hearts content.

yantorsen · 21 Sep 2008 at 20:53

Ok, that all makes sense, but I can't work out how to change the about page...

Messiah Khan · 21 Sep 2008 at 21:21

yantorsen said:
Ok, that all makes sense, but I can't work out how to change the about page...

Just change the about_template.html file. This is where a bit of html and css knowledge will come in usefull. Doesn't have to be hard though.

yantorsen · 21 Sep 2008 at 23:35

Messiah Khan said:
Just change the about_template.html file. This is where a bit of html and css knowledge will come in usefull. Doesn't have to be hard though.

sorry to be a nuisance but could you elaborate a little please? thanks.

Messiah Khan · 22 Sep 2008 at 09:18

yantorsen said:
sorry to be a nuisance but could you elaborate a little please? thanks.

Well what do you want to do with the about page? All of the actual pages of your site will now be contained within the _template.html files. This is where the content of the site will go (text etc). The look of the site is controlled by the .css files in the styles folder. So in order to change or add content, you will need to edit the html files. In order to change the look of the site, you will need to edit the .css files. It's probably worth having a thorough read through the pixelpost documentation on the website, then sign up to the pixelpost forum. Hope that helps.

yantorsen · 22 Sep 2008 at 16:37

Messiah Khan said:
Well what do you want to do with the about page? All of the actual pages of your site will now be contained within the _template.html files. This is where the content of the site will go (text etc). The look of the site is controlled by the .css files in the styles folder. So in order to change or add content, you will need to edit the html files. In order to change the look of the site, you will need to edit the .css files. It's probably worth having a thorough read through the pixelpost documentation on the website, then sign up to the pixelpost forum. Hope that helps.

ok, thanks.

What do I use to edit the template files though? because they appear to open in Chrome, or indeed what do I use to save a text file as a .html file?

Messiah Khan · 22 Sep 2008 at 17:00

yantorsen said:
ok, thanks.

What do I use to edit the template files though? because they appear to open in Chrome, or indeed what do I use to save a text file as a .html file?

I just use wordpad to edit and create html/css/js/php etc files. Just create a .txt document, then change the file extension to .whateverfiletypeyouwant and hey presto, it's magially no longer a text file. Just make sure you go to 'tools>folder options>view>hide extensions for known file types' and untick it, so that you actually see the file extension.

yantorsen · 22 Sep 2008 at 17:40

So i can just type and format a page of text, then save it as a html file, then replace the template on my server with firetp?

Messiah Khan · 22 Sep 2008 at 21:09

yantorsen said:
So i can just type and format a page of text, then save it as a html file, then replace the template on my server with firetp?

Yup. Although you might be better off downloading the template file, making a backup copy, then edit the existing file. That way you can play to learn about html and css and if anything breaks, you can just restore the original file.

yantorsen · 23 Sep 2008 at 00:23

Cheers I'm getting the hang of this, it's just like editing myspace html code really