A friend says Hey, I have a question if you are out there.
I say Hey. Sure!
She says Cool! Um. I'm trying to use WinSCP3... The webspace that I have... How do I HTML it? Or is that possible? I'm very confused.
I say Hehe, okay, hold on a second.
How do you HTML it?
Like ... how do you make pages?
She says Yeah. How do you get to a place where you can?
I say Alright. That's not the realm of WinSCP at all. All WinSCP does is lets you put files on the server, be they html files or anything else.
She says Ha, I figured.
I say What I do is use an editor, old-school style, to make the HTML files. I just open up my basically spiffed up notepad, and start writing:
<html>
<head><title>My page</title></head>
<body>
<p>This is a very small paragraph.</p>
<p>this is another.</p>
</body>
</html>
I say And then save it: maybe call it "
index.html" (meaning the main page) or "mypage.html"
She says Ok... then upload that file?
I say Yes. Then connect with WinSCP, go to the web folder, and drag it in.
She says Huh. Wow!
I say Now, I'm totally old-school doing it that way. I'm a control freak.
She says How else could you do it?
I say You can use other programs to make the HTML files: Mozilla (from mozilla.org), or Nvu lets you edit HTML with something more like a word-processor.
She says Hm.
I say However, you don't get so much control that way, and I find it harder for bigger sites. For a single page, it's definitely among the easiest ways to whip something up.
She says Ah, but for a newbie like me. Yeah.