Adding your own HTML to your webpage

Although our system is designed so that you do not need to understand HTML, some members want to enhance their pages beyond the capabilities of our system or they want to insert HTML snippets that have been provided by third parties to add content to their pages. A great example of a third party content reference site can be found at http://www.freesticky.com.

Where a completely unique page design is required we have enabled HTML web pages to be uploaded and published from your Filestore - for example you could create a web page in Frontpage or Dreamweaver and upload and publish it.

Where a small change to a page is required however, if you understand HTML then you can add your own code into an HTML Object which you select from the dropdown of items available to insert. Simply locate the place where you want the code to exist and insert an HTML object, replacing the default text with your correct HTML.

When inserting raw HTML however, you must be VERY careful to ensure that any SCRIPT tags are correctly formed. For example every piece of Javascript should start with <SCRIPT> and end with </SCRIPT>. If you finish with <script> for example by mistake you will break the page and have to delete it from the Filestore and start again!

This will result in IE displaying the page up to the faulty tag but Netscape refusing to display anything. The real problem however is that because you use the web browser during the editing process you would not see the faulty code and thus be unable to edit and correct it in our system - all you can do is delete the page and start again.

TIP You should test your HTML code on your computer first by creating a local test HTML file and loading it in your browser to make sure that the code is correct.