Templates?

[Jackc£10]

Hi all,
Does anyone know of a good website for explaining website templates and how to use them in the html code?
as i have no idea.

By the way if anyone is looking to learn html i would suggest this website Introduction to HTML

thanks

[Cruelworld]

If you download a free template from one of the sites you will be presented with a folder with the template files in it.
On your PC treat this folder as the root folder for your website.

For example, have a folder called Template Name and inside that will be the files that you will eventually upload to your WWW folder in your hosting account.

images (folder containing the website images)
style.css (CSS Stylesheet <--- sometimes has a custom name and is called directly from each webpage head area)
index.html (first and main webpage)

That is the basic ingredients of your website.
If you want to add more pages you can by creating a new .txt file and calling it whatever you want your new page to be like contacts and changing the .txt extension to .html

Any of the pages can be edited in an editing program like Dreamweaver if you have it or my preferred editor for web templates is simply Wordpad.

Right click any .html page or .css sheet and Open With : Wordpad.

Basic editing is pretty straight forward, you will see in plain English where chunks of text live and just change them for what you want to say.

Trial and error runs a lot of the time and you will start to pick up more and more as you go along.

Remember that every tag you open has to be closed.

As long as you keep the file structure as it should be within it's folder you can view what your page will look like just by clicking the index.html (or any other page you create) page and it will open up in your default browser.

When you are ready to upload to your website just upload the contents of the Template Name folder to your webspace.

Google is your friend

[Jackc£10]

Thanks a lot.
Once i have saved the style sheet as a html document is there anyway that i can edit this again using notepad?

[Cruelworld]

Originally Posted by Jackc£10

Thanks a lot.
Once i have saved the style sheet as a html document is there anyway that i can edit this again using notepad?

The HTML pages are your web pages and can be opened any time using Notepad or Wordpad. Preferably Wordpad.

The CSS file is your stylesheet and tells your web pages what fonts to use, what positioning, borders and any special instructions that may have any effect on certain elements of the page.
This needs to be kept as a .css extension, not renamed to HTML.