So we have a place to put our website. Now let's start putting things in it! After you've signed in, you are taken to your account's starting page. This has a welcome banner, some statistics, and suggestions for other Neocities member websites to peruse. For right now though, click the "Edit Site" button (pictured below) to get to your directory.
In your file listing, there will already be a few default files provided by Neocities, including a homepage file called "index.html." These are included as a starting point, but you don't need to do anything with them. Let's look at the three important buttons in the header of your file listing—"New File," "New Folder," and "Upload." We're going to focus on the last two for this page.
Part of your project at the end of this lesson is to get your previous assignment online. So locate your file from the Online News Article assignment from the lesson "Text and Formatting", and let's upload it!
Click the "Upload" button, and a file chooser will open. Select your HTML file from the Online News Article assignment, and click "Open." And done! The HTML file will now appear in your file listing. You can click the name of your file to preview it at its nice, new online location.
It's also important to keep your assets organized in folders when designing a website. So if you have any PDFs, audio files, or images, it's best to keep them in a respective folder.
You will also be including a PDF file with this lesson's project, so let's make a "documents" folder right now. Click the "New Folder" button, and a box will appear with the headline "Create Folder". Type in the folder name "documents" and click the "Create" button. You should now see your "documents" folder in the directory.
If you click a folder, you'll enter the folder and see any files or other folders within it. As you enter folders, you can see the file path in the header of your directory. Clicking into the folder you just made will give you a path of "Home > documents." To get back out of the folder, click "Home" in the file path, and the main directory will display again.
