It sounds like you've jumped in over your head and you don't know where to begin with anything. You have a number of key problems: 1. You don't know HTML. You don't need a web-server or money to learn HTML. You can use a simple text editor to make HTML files and load them into your browser locally. Borrow books from a library or search google for HTML tutorials. 2. You don't know what FTP is or what it's for. FTP is used to upload your HTML files from your computer to your server. 3. You don't know what servers are. Servers are where all your HTML files go. index.html is the file that will be shown when the user goes to your domain. You can't use FTP until you know where to FTP to. You have a location (a url, usually your domain name), a username and a password. You're going to have to be self motivated to learn this stuff by reading information available on-line.
I know some basic html, but thats it. I figured I there would be some sort of easy site builder I could intergrate into my 1&1 site account. So far, Dreamwaver and NVU are too confusing for me to even begin. On NVU (the easier of the two) it asks for: -- Site Name: A Random World HTTP Address: http://www.arandomworld.com/ Publishing Address: ? Username: ? Password: ? -- I don't know what they mean by Publishing address. :?
even a sitebuilder SHOULD at least accept htlm and javasscript. If 1&1 doesnt....fvck 'em..change provider. I mean i can even build a site in a minute eg. on www.blogger.com, you might want to try this...its free. For you....i assume you pasted the JAVASCRIPT code how you showed...you sure you used the right way/tool with 1&1 ? Go on your site and look at the page-source with IE/Firefox....how does it come up ?
glh92, You need to fill out the "Publishing Server" section of the Publishing setting form with the parameters of your ftp account. Most likely the "publishing address" would be something like "ftp://ftp.arandomworld.com". The username and password are most likely the same that you use to access your site control panel. However, you may have to use your site control panel to setup the FTP account. I don't use 1&1 so I really don't know is FTP is setup by default or whether it has to be setup by the account owner. Either way, you need FTP access to your web space and you need to enter the correct FTP parameters into Nvu so that it is able to publish your web page files to your web server.