Prerequisites
A job can be completed faster if you're using the right tools. This page will give you suggestions for all the tools you need to open, edit, preview and deploy your new landing page.
This page covers the basics of editing and uploading an HTML page. If you're familiar with these procedures you can move on to the next chapter.
What do you need?
Getting a landing page up and running on the web is not very hard once you know exactly what steps you should take or what tools you can use. Here's a quick breakdown:
- Use a code editor to edit the markup (or the HTML). This allows you to add your own text and images.
- If necessary, modify the CSS to add your own styling.
- Buy a domain and web hosting for that domain (in you don't have these already).
- Use and FTP client to upload the landing page files to your domain.
- You're good to go!
Coming up, here are a few suggestions for the tools you need.
Browsers
Any changes made to the landing page files can be previewed in a browser. I recommend using Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. Any browser will do really, just make sure it's updated and you're using the latest version.
Code editors
A code editor is what you'll be using to edit the HTML, CSS and JavaScript files. While there are lots of alternatives out there, here are 3 that are free and cross-platform:
Domain & hosting
If you don't have a domain already, you should get one because that's the only way to make your landing page public and available on the Internet. Apart from a domain, you'll also need a place to host your landing page files.
Hosting providers will usually give you the option to purchase the domain in the same place as the hosting package. Here are 3 companies I've worked with and I know for a fact they have great products:
FTP clients
If your hosting provider doesn't have an online FTP interface, you'll need to use a standalone client to upload the landing page files from your computer to the Internet. If you don't have an FTP client, I recommend FileZilla. It's free, easy to use and works on all platforms.
If you don't like FilaZilla, I recommend these applications that have a built-in FTP client:
- For macOS: Forklift and Transmit
- For Windows: Total Commander
Command line
The command line is optional. It is only needed if you want to use the advanced workflow where you need to run Gulp commands from the command line. If you're going to do that please check out the dedicated documentation page.