HALP, basic HTML failure D:

[Sailor Cybertron]

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: 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. :[

[Larry Laffer]

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?

[Sailor Cybertron]

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!

[Larry Laffer]

Glad to be of service.