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i thought i would reprhrase my earlier question too make it hopefully more readable. i need to create an index page for my website www.country-expert.info, as you can see currently its just a bunch of folders. i have no idea how too make it look like a "normal" webpage e.g a home page when you type in the url?. i have downloaded the latest version of cms made simple and will upload it shortly. do i need to use it to create a homepage? any help will be really appreaciated thanks.
lewis.

Hi lewdogs,

Thanks. That makes much more sense.

The first thing you need to do is unplug your omputer and find the box it came in. Do you still have it?

...nah, just joshing.

It's like this:

Currently what you have in your domain's root folder (that's the default location for your web site files) is a varied selection of directories (or folders) containing not very much at all aside from extra cgi_bin directories, which really shouldn't be there.

None of these files can be considered the basis for a website.

In fact, that I can even view these files is quite a security risk and one your ISP should be dealing with - but that's for another day.

The basis for a website is a single document, usually entitled default, index, or home, with an appropriate file extension.

Examples of this are: index.html, index.php, default.asp etc.

The first thing you need to do is create a new text file. Include the following text:



My Homepage

My first homepage!



Then save the file as index.html and upload it into the site root (that's the place where all your other files currently are).

And you're done.

Step 2: Go and do a Web basics course.

Now,

If you follow the install for CMSMS you should have a working web site, like this http://multiintech.com/cmsms4/ basically...

thanks heaps guys, really appreciate the quick response. ok im starting to grasp the ideas now. so all i have to do is basically upload the file into the site root with all the html coding. easy haha, ill get cracking

Please follow these helpful guides...

http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... ck_Install