Hows everybody doing? I'm having a brain fart here. I have designed and published a few sites in the past but its been awhile. I am having a hard time figuring out where to save my index.html file.

This is a screenshot of the folders on my server


This is a screenshot of the folders in my public_html folder


Im tryin to design a splash page for www.obsession2speed.com and im not sure where to save the html file...Also, do i save this splash page as index.html or home.html?? Any help would help a lot, thanks in advance.

Everything needs to go into the public_html directory in order for it to show up.

And yes it being a splash page, it needs to be index.html, so it is the page that appears first when someone goes to your site.

thank you...I have another question...This might be a lil off topic though....

the images for my splash page...I created a splash page in Photoshop and cut it up into 5pieces...I tried putting it together in Dreamweaver (the only way i know how to code right now)...I saved the images from Photoshop under Public_HTML in a folder called images...I then went into dreamweaver to put it together...When adding the gif images to my layout the src to the images was /public_html/images/filename...I believed that was right since i added the files into Dreamweaver directly from my server...However, when i go to my page, it just shows a blank screen...No images i added...Any help with that or should i go somewhere else?

If you don't know where to place your index.htm and you don't know how to configure your server setting. try to launch your server then look for the first page it will view that will be the default index.htm. That is your default index, your can replace it with your created one.

Take public_html out of the images url. Public_html is just the default folder where your web server wants you to put all the files you want viewable or accessible.

It doesn't have bearing on your site files (until you get into server side scripting). When you type in the url of your site: www.whatever.com the browser automatically looks for this folder called public_html and looks for your index file. In your case, your splash page.

the browser automatically looks for this folder called public_html and looks for your index file

Not the browser, as a browser has no way of determining what the top level folder is called.

Apache servers are normally configured to serve files located in the public_html folder and it is the server that picks out the file to be served out as the "home" page.

Yea I should have specified that the default folder is server specific. Some hosts don't even give you root access either. Anyway thanks for clearing that up.