majorupchuck Posted November 11, 2003 Posted November 11, 2003 I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction. I've been fortunate to have been helped by many great people here at the family forum, namely, TCH, Jim, Turtle, Dennis, and AndyB, to name a few. Now that my forum is up, and running, and I have numerous members; the question I've got, is how do I build a homepage for my forum. Also, what type of program if any would I have to use to build this homepage, or is incorporated in the cpanel, or considered a third party script? I'm sure I'll get my answers soon, so fire away, guys and girls. I want to learn this stuff so I don't have to ask to many questions in the future! (thinks to himself yeah right)..... Quote
TCH-Don Posted November 11, 2003 Posted November 11, 2003 Tim, I will make some assumptions, so this may not be what you want. I think by a "homepage for my forum" you mean a way for visitors to get to your forum. If you have a forum at for example www.mysite.com/forum/ and you want it to be visible when someone goes to www.mysite.com You can make a start page named index.html with a link to the forum like <A HREF="www.mysite.com/forum/">visit my forum</A> and put it in your public_html folder the page can be as simple as <HTML> <HEAD> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#800080" ALINK="#FF0000"> <H1>My Forum</H1> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <A HREF="www.mysite.com/forum/">visit my forum</A> </BODY> </HTML> of course replace www.mysite.com with your address, and save it to your computer as index.html for uploading to your site. As to a program to upload this page with, to start, you could use the cpanel file manager (located at the bottom of cpanel) to navagate to your public_html directory (click on the icons to enter a folder, not the name) You can use the upload files link to browse to the html file you have saved on your computer, then click upload. Be sure you are in the public_html folder when you upload, as that is where your web site is. This should get you started if you do not have any programs to create a page. hope this helps. Quote
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