Boomdia's 4500 downloadable templates sure look tempting, but how can one use them without advanced knowledge of HTML or web design?
The HTML editor included with cPanel is a perfect solution. It's easy to use and does all the page coding for you.
How do I start?
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The first thing you need to do is download a template. You can download these from inside your cPanel.
- Be sure to extract the zip file before proceeding.
- Open an FTP client and navigate to the new folder. Go inside Without_fl and html. Here you will find the website files you need.
- Navigate the other side of your FTP client into your public_html folder. If you are publishing an addon or subdomain, then you need to also go inside that domain's root folder.
- Select all of the files (right click and Select All). Then upload all of the files (right click and Upload.)
- Ready? Many files will start to upload. Please wait patiently until they are all done.
- Close your FTP client and login to cPanel.
- Click the File Manager icon.
- On the pop-up, choose to go to the Web Root (public_html/www) folder. Hit the Go button.
- Here you should see cgi-bin and the files which you uploaded. If you published to an addon or subdomain, then you need to go inside that domain's root folder.
- Look for index.html in the main list. Right click the icon for index.html and choose HTML Edit from the drop down.
- Now you have a WYSIWYG editor which makes web design seem so simple.
Tip: To insert images onto your page, you must upload them to the public_html directory first.
- Inside the file manager, go to the top and click the Upload icon.
- On the new window, click a Browse button and locate the images on your PC.
- Double click the image when you find it, and wait for the blue bar to reach 100% Complete.
- Click "Back to /home/your-user-name/public_html". The image file will now appear along with your index.html file.
- Go back to the HTML Edit tool and click the Insert Image icon.
- Check the box for your image and click the Insert button at the bottom.
- Go to the top left of the editor and click the Save icon (second from left).
- Go preview your site. Make changes as needed.