The Oracle :: Forum - HALP, basic HTML failure D:

« HALP, basic HTML failure D: »

Welcome Guest. Please Login or Register.
Jan 6, 2010, 4:53am

The Oracle :: Forum :: General :: Website Help :: HALP, basic HTML failure D:

Author

Topic: HALP, basic HTML failure D: (Read 38 times)

Sailor Cybertron
Star Senshi

member is offline

[avatar]

forever and ever, i'll always love you

Joined: Jan 2008
Gender: Female

Posts: 549
Location: Delaware
Karma: 7

HALP, basic HTML failure D:
« Thread Started on Aug 31, 2009, 5:05pm »

Alright, so I finally decided to make use of the hosting plan I bought for my birthday last year and create a website over my free semester. I registered my new domain and wanted to create a "coming soon" splash page while I got down to work.

I have the HTML formatted properly, but all it's showing is the HTML itself, not the page I want it to make. Take a look: http://moon-revenge.net/

Now I'm decent in HTML, although my knowledge isn't really up-to-date. But I just can't figure out what's going wrong! I'm using TextEdit for my HTML. This is my first time using a FTP client (FileZilla, for reference) and I don't know if something's going wrong between me and the client or what. If I can't get a simple splash page up, I'm screwed.

Help me out, por favor. :[

Link to Post - Back to Top IP:

Logged

Larry Laffer
Dream Mirror

l33t Smartass
member is offline

[avatar]

I shall not BOW! EVER!

Joined: Oct 2006
Gender: Male

Posts: 6,534
Location: Bucharest, Romania,
Karma: 116

Re: HALP, basic HTML failure D:
« Reply #1 on Aug 31, 2009, 6:36pm »

How're you making the pages?

I assume your editor's got a "designer" front end and a "coder" back end. You're inputting code in the front end which makes it believe you want to display said code to the average visitor.

Also, for the record, according to your page's meta tags, a certain "Cocoa HTML Writer" was used to make it. The likely culprit, mayhaps?

Link to Post - Back to Top IP:

Logged

Why? Because it's effing awesome!

Sailor Cybertron
Star Senshi

member is offline

[avatar]

forever and ever, i'll always love you

Joined: Jan 2008
Gender: Female

Posts: 549
Location: Delaware
Karma: 7

Re: HALP, basic HTML failure D:
« Reply #2 on Aug 31, 2009, 7:05pm »

I'm using TextEdit on a Mac and saving the files as .html, then uploading them via the FTP client. I didn't know there was a "coder" end, I thought it was pretty straightforward like Notepad is on Windows. :\

EDIT: hurp durp, I had to switch it to plain-text mode. Doesn't it figure it was something as simple as that?

Thanks for tipping me off, Larry. Much appreciated!

« Last Edit: Aug 31, 2009, 7:11pm by Sailor Cybertron »

Link to Post - Back to Top IP: