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DanceMonkeyBoy
07-22-2004, 10:00 PM
I have been using Homestead site builder. Can anyone tell me how to move my site from Homestead to a suitable free web host?

My website is just a little bit of fun. 10-20 pages, very low traffic.
I no longer wish to use Homestead due to a new 10 page limit and increasing costs.

I know nothing about HTML. Is there anyway I can just copy and paste the HTML from Homestead into another web builder with little editing?

Any recommendations for a good free (or at least good value) host that I can do this with?

Also, can anyone recommend a good site building tool (along the lines of Homestead's simple, idiot proof one)?

Many thanks in advance,
Cameron

(I have Windows XP, AOL and IE if that helps at all).

Ben@WEBProp
07-22-2004, 11:33 PM
You should invest the $10/year...

http://www.ithuim.net

As for knowing HTML and "all that jazz", you can just copy the source of your page, paste it into a text document, rename that text document "nameofpagehere.htm", and then use an ftp to upload your stuff to the newly puchased and really freakin rad website from ithuim. I know this is kinda vague, but start with getting the space to publish first before you worry about how to upload to it. Also, welcome to the forums.

-Ben

rechocto
07-23-2004, 10:52 PM
as for a web building tool, the best one i can find (makes ur pages look very professional) is 'clagari ispace' it's very simple, you use a pencil to draw out secions of your page which u then drag and drop objects into and resize etc then save it and your done, you can make excallent 3d buttons and animations, and it has a nice varried array of fonts to chosoe from to make your site look sweet, then after you save it all you really have to do is edit the html changing 'href="#"' to 'href="(the site your linking to)"' i built/am building the high bandwidth version of http://microdyminsion.com (still under construction) with ispace (keep in mind, i will go back and fix the spelling mistakes (ALL OF THEM..) i'm not paying attention to that right now, just setting it up and going back and fixing bugs afterwards) and it truely is an excallent program, though i havent registered it and so the background and buttons have clagari's watermark on them, but awe well.

Big Fat
07-23-2004, 11:18 PM
Some editors have ftp capability. One is Arachnophilia. Some free sites will let you upload code with their ftp. Just copy your code (view - source - edit - select all - copy) and paste it to the ftp source and upload.

You will have to change your page URL's (the links) to the new site -

eg - (these links don't work - examples)
www.homestead.com/home.html

change to

www.freesite.com/?home.html

Watch for free site storage limits depending on how big the 10 pages are. You should be able to find that out in the homestead cpanel.

hope this helps.