Question about building a Main Page ~

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  1. 93Corvette

    93Corvette Novice

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    I just loaded my vbulletin onto my host. Being a guy that really don't know much about computers, I'm pretty proud of myself to even get this far.

    Since I don't want the forum to come up immediately, I placed it in a "forums" directory. What my ultimate goal is to have a "Main Page" showing the a title and what the forum is all about. Then I want a button to redirect the user to the actual forum (www.NavyDep.com/forums), or to exit if they don't.

    So does anyone know of a tutorial or know how to make a main page that a total noob can understand? What does the file name have to be to have it come up as soon as you type in www.NavyDep.com and where does this file need to be placed?

    Lastly, if anyone has an example of how it should be? I can understand some basic coding, but I just don't understand where the computer goes to make it automatically start up..... (I'm a old DOS guy, who thinks I need an "autoexec.bat" file.

    Thanks again for any help someone has....
    Craig
     
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  2. MordyT

    MordyT Grand Master

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    You just want a page with "enter forums" and "exit".


    Page gets named index.html or whatever extension (.php) to be called first.
     
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  3. GTAce

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    Hey Craig, this is Ryan from vBSkinworks ;)

    MordyT is right. You just need to create a plain HTML page. Save an empty file as index.html and upload it to the main folder of your website. Put your HTML code inside of the file.

    I recommend this for learning HTML (a great resource for a lot of programming): http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

    Code that would work for you:

    HTML:
    <html>
<body>

<h1>Welcome to NavyDEP!</h1>

<p>Description of your site here</p>

<center>
<a href="http://www.navydep.com/forums">
<img  src="/path/to/your/button/button.gif" alt="Click here to enter the  forums!" border="0" />
</a>
</center>

</body>
</html>
    That's very very basic code and will get you a very plain Jane page, but using w3schools.com, you can build on that
     
    GTAce, Apr 19, 2010
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  4. 93Corvette

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    Thanks for the help.... This is exactly what I need....

    Ryan, it's good to see you here. I'm such a noob, that I don't want the entire world to know it, so I research alot of website for answers... This board seems really friendly....
     
    93Corvette, Apr 20, 2010
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    its the BEST!! People will help you..just ask!
     
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  6. 93Corvette

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    Follow up-
    Just in case a noobie like me needs to know how to do this:

    I actually used a program that my host (Site Ground) had called Site Builder. This program will walk you thru the steps in making the home page.
    You can see my home page at Home It came out good enough for me. Now onto my next problem, the database restore.
     
    93Corvette, Apr 23, 2010
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