Making an index page/placeholder
If you set up your blog in a root folder ignore this post, when someone types in your domain they will go straight to your blog.
If you set up your blog in a folder other than the root, you might like to make a placeholder page so when someone visits your domain they get something more than a list of folders until you are ready to do a redirect. It’s also a good idea to do this if you don’t feel ready for anyone to see your blog quite yet because usually clicking on the folder that shows up on your homepage will show your blog if that’s where you set it up.
This is an optional step and if you don’t care who sees you making your blog then ignore this and do a redirect now or whenever you like. I usually like to wait until I’ve removed some of the default elements and put up a new theme.
If you place a simple text document called index.html (or index.htm) in your root folder then when someone visits http://domain.com/ they will see that file (http://domain.com/index.html). Mine is no longer there, but you can check out an archived copy at http://www.blogmaking.net/stuff/index.html.
Open a text editor like Notepad and copy and paste the following code, changing the title and the content (in bold) to what you want to say. Save it as “index.html” or “index.htm” and upload it to your root folder. Now when you go to your domain, you should see the text: “hello this is my blog which I’m currently making, soon it will be ready to see but not yet!” (or whatever you changed it to). Not very fancy but just a simple placeholder. If you have more advanced skills/use Dreamweaver, feel free to do something more impressive. (*It’s actually quite hard to show code on a web document as the browser interprets the code, here’s a site where you can enter the code you want to display and it will give you what you need to cut and paste into your document so that the code displays properly: Felgall Internet - Displaying HTML Source Code in Web Pages)
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN”
“http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd”>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=iso-8859-1″>
<title>my bloggie!</title>
<body>
hello this is my blog which I’m currently making, soon it will be ready to see but not yet!
</body>
</html>
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