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ttusa · **Need a Patient Geek -** 12-19-2008, 07:33 PM

Hello, I have updated my web site, and I sent all the files via Cute ftp to Tripod. When I try to find my web site, Tripod says I need to create an index.html page. Help! I haven't worked on my web site for two years, and I just can't remember how I did this last time.

I wish I were a Geek

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Peacock · 12-19-2008, 07:45 PM

The index.html page also know as the default.html page are the entry pages to any website, basically you starting page for you site, that list the links to the other pages. If you have one of those pages that you believe is the index page you can rename the page to index.html but you need to becareful how you linked all the other pages back to you index page.

Example: Three page website, start.html, photos.html, blog.html, each page has links to the other, so I decide to change my start.html page to index.html page, so now the other two pages that have links back to start.html page will not work because you have to fix the links on those pages to point to index.html.

Davidtxs · 12-19-2008, 07:47 PM

Try doing a search on your computer for index.html then click on it if it finds one and see if its your webpage

nash · 12-19-2008, 07:48 PM

I don't know whether this is the answer, but most Web sites require a "parent" page titled either index.html (or .htm in Mac, I think) or, in some cases, sometimes home.html. This is your home page, and in a small Web site, other pages link back to this parent page. In larger sites, there might be several levels of pages in the tree for your site. If you haven't named your main page this, just save it as index.html. Then make sure that all links back to the home page call it this (index.html). (I would make a backup copy of your Web site first.)

By the way, I use Dreamweaver, and in that program you can go to Page Properties and create a title for each page that has nothing to do with what the actual link is. This is the title that shows up at the top bar on your browser. In your case, it could be: "Led by the Light: Home Page" or something like that.

ttusa · 12-19-2008, 08:48 PM

Thanks for your help! Sonny got things working on my web site- thanks!!!

ldelacruz · 12-19-2008, 10:31 PM

Was it the old .htm vs. .html thingy?

ggeen · 09:38 AM

If they are using Apache web server, they are looking for index.html or welcome.html. Microsoft IIS uses default.htm. Most good web administrators recognize them all. It is a simple configuration file change.

Your index.html file needs some of these elements.

<html><head><title>My web page</title></head>
<body>
<a href="http://somewebsite.com">hyperlink text</a>
<img src="somepictgure.jpg" width="#pixels" height="#pixels">
</body>
</html>

You don't need to upload the file to the web page to test it. From your web browser, use file:///c:/dir/index.html and test in your browser locally on your computer before uploading. I use a Mac and for me dir=Sites. On my Sun workstation at work dir=~/public_html. I use these to create entire websites prior to uploading to the production web server.

Dreamweaver is for wimps, I us vi!

Just kidding. Dreamweaver is a very good tool. I code by hand or use iWeb for my personal stuff.

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