Going to put all this in its own post too by popular request: here's how you make your own website with no understanding of HTML code at all, no software, no backend, absolutely nothing but a text file and image files!
First get website server space of your own, like at NEOCITIES. The free version has enough room to host a whole fan page, your art, a simple comic series, whatever!
The link I've provided goes to a silly comic that will tell you how to save the page as an html file and make it into a page for your own site. The bare minimum of all you need to do with it is JUST THIS: /end ID]
[image ID: a creature explaining what to change after you save the html to make it your own website: “Guess what? The circled bits are all you ever need to change to make it your OWN PAGE” The sections circled in red are:
the text of the page's tab, between "head" and "title" tags. it says “YOUR WEBSITE'S TITLE HERE”; the full line is: <head><title>YOUR WEBSITE'S TITLE HERE</title><head>
a header for the page, between "h1" and "p" tags. it says “BIG, CENTERED TEXT”; the full line is: <h1><p style="font-sixe:40px">BIG, CENTERED TEXT</p><h1>
a link to the image files of the comic, between an "h1" tag and inside an "img." tag. it says “thisisntyourcomic.png”; the full line is: <h1><img src="thisisntyourcomic.png"></h1>
the three navigation links, each inside an "a" tag. the first link applies to the word “Previous”, the second applies to the word “Home”, and the third to the word “Next”; the first line is: <a href="001.html"><b>Previous</b></a> . the second line is: <a href="YOURWEBSITE.WHATEVER"><b>Home</b></a>&nps;&nps; . the third line is: <a href="001.html"><b>Next</b></a>
[post text: Change the titles, text, and image url's to whatever you want them to be, upload your image files and the html file together to your free website (or the same subfolder in that website), and now you have a webpage with those pictures on it. That's it!!!!!
.....But if you want to change some more super basic things about it, here's additional tips from the same terrible little guy: /end PT]
[image ID: the creature from before, explaining how to change the background colors: “AAH! It's extra stuff! Here's where you can change colors!” a few spots for hexcodes and code segments are circled and labelled. The lines of code are:
color: "#000000;" labelled “Font”
background: "#FFFFFF;" labelled “Background 1”
a { color: "#0000EE;" } labelled “Links”
a:visited { "color: #551A8B;" } labelled “Visited Links”
#main { "background: #FFFFFF;" width: 900…} labelled “Background 2”
The creature continues: “There's two different ones for "background" because the sample file has this nice middle column for your content!”
[image ID: a demonstration of the different background colors. Background 1 applies to the background of the webpage, and Background 2 applies to the background of the content column. The creature instructs: “Look up color hex codes and and try any vile combos you want!” /end ID]
[image ID: the creature explaining how to change the navigation at the bottom: “Links can be images instead of text! Just put an image code where the link text was.” The code segment from the first image for navigation links except with the "Previous", "Home", and "Next" texts replaced with <img src="backbutton.png">, <img src="homebutton.png"> and <img src="nextbutton.png"> /end ID]
[image ID: a screenshot of the html code inside the computer's files, with the creature explaining: “If an html file is just called "Index," it automatically acts as your main page! It will be what people see when they go to yourwebsitename.com or whatever!” /end ID]
[image ID: a singular line of code: <meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=yourwebsite.com"> The creature says: “If you make a page with only this one line of code, anyone who goes to the page will be taken to whatever URL you put there!” /end ID]
[image ID: the creature further explains: "You can use that to make a custom link with that always goes to your newest update! Whenever you update, just change this link again!Your index.html can be this, too!" There's an arrow pointing towards the "url=yourwebsite.com" in the code segment from the previous image. /end ID]
[post text: That last code by itself is:
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=001.html">
Change "001.html" to wherever you want that link to take people. THIS IS THE REASON WHY when you go to bogleech.com/pokemon/ you are taken instantly to the newest Pokemon review, because the /pokemon/ directory of my website has an "index.html" page with this single line of code. Every pokemon review has its own permanent link, but I change that single line in the index file so it points to the newest page whenever I need it to!
While I catered these instructions to updating a webcomic, you can use the same template to make blog type posts, articles or just image galleries. Anything you want! You can delete the navigational links entirely, you can make your site's index.html into a simple list of text links OR fun little image links to your different content, whatever! Your website can be nothing but a big ugly deep fried JPEG of goku with a recipe for potato salad on it, no other content ever, who cares! We did that kind of nonsense all the time in the 1990's and thought it was the pinnacle of comedy!! Maybe it still can be?!?! Or maybe you just want a place to put some artwork and thoughts of yours that doesn't come with the same baggage as big social media?
Make a webpage this way and it will look the same in any browser, any operating system for years and years to come, because it's the same kind of basic raw code most of the internet depends upon!
小い.> very useful guide~ thank you for making it!♡
게터.> neocities time〜 have fun everyone :]
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