how can i put a template to my site

bilalkelil · Joined: 06 May 2008 Posts: 1

i am new to this site stuff , i am crrating a website using 1and1, i choosed a template and download it to my computer ,how do i put it to my site??

emily · Joined: 11 May 2008 Posts: 1

I'm having the same problem. I have a site (www.digesting49.com) and want to base all the pages on a template consisting of the site sidebar Issue #s and the header. I can't find any tutorials or info on what codes I need. I haven't searched crazy hard but enough to be discouraged. Does anyone know? It seems like such basic knowledge.

Straystudio · Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 261 Location: Nord Italy

So, which ever provider You opened Your site with, You allways get kind of dialog-box conneting to the Server.
There You can handle pages.
Basically, handling a site just consist of :

- building new pages;
- editing existing pages;
- create Directories (folders) and sub-Directories where the pages keep stored in, can be moved to as well.

Basically, nothing different than what You can make on Your personal computer.
Then the best should be You become somewhat skilled in created, editing and folders-organizing pages within Your computer; like-wise an inner site.

Start thinking what We have been calling as "pages", are files, indeed; namely, HTML Documents.
They have to be it, to be handled and delivered as pages by the server storing Your site.

Among that above said server side dialog-box, You should reach something called as Editor or Files Manager.
There You can handle Your site as a group of .HTML Documents; .JPG .GIF files as well, for coding images.

Depending on which site-features, You MIGHT find also pre-made Templates to be put in use, and WYSIWYG Editor (What You See Is What You Get) to type some content in (like posting on a Blog), but since You are oriented to heavily personalize the shape of page(s), You must stay at HTML.

Among Your Computer standard Programs, find and open NotePad (if Windows) or TextEdit (if MAC).
See my below post, if You are having trouble in finding NotePad with WindowsXP
There You can start creating or editing an HTML file, it then to be copied/pasted into Your Web Site's HTML Editor, then saved on the Server. And You will have uploaded a web page, so.

As from "emily", paste the below whole code green into Your computer NotePad, then save it as (say) header.html or under any filename else You want; most important, You manually type the .html extension since NotePad won't do it automatically (it saves as .txt otherwise).
Then go opening that file by Browser => File => Open File
and You will get a page headed with the banner You told, with a few demonstrative changed content.

Straystudio · Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 261 Location: Nord Italy

How to detect any page's HTML Code;
a short-cut to open NotePad with WindowsXP, too if You have not it listed among start-menù icons.

- Open a page in Internet Explorer 7, either from Your computer and from the web;
- Click Right-button of mouse, the cursor beeing pointed anywhere along the page BUT on an image;
- Drop-down menù appears: You run to HTML and Left-mouse click on it;
- Now a New Window opens: it is Windows NotePad, here containing all the HTML Code the Page is built with.

Content can be quickly get "Select All" and deleted; now You can start typing a new HTML file.

With Netscape Browser, it basically works the same except that they call it as View Page Source in place of HTML along the drop-down menù AND the new window showing the Code does NOT open as an editable textarea.