[kupoartist]

Originally Posted by merylsilverburg

I found out that you can create all your contents offline then upload them onto the host using the FTP or the ISP. Okay, I have no idea how to do this and what I should do so if someone can explain this, I'd appreciate it.

You need an FTP client. I use SmartFTP because... well, it's free.
https://www.smartftp.com/
It's not the best but it's free and I haven't been bothered to find alternatives. Basically, when you have a webhost, you find out where the upload server is (something like "myfiles.hostname.com" or a million variations).

For actually creating stuff, I use Frontpage 2000, that came in Microsoft Office. It's an awful, awful program but frankly, anyone with any web-know-how will tell you that I have an awfully, awfully, coded website. (transparent tables are your friend! Make a background in your fave graphics package, cut it up into little pieces, do the maths and bingo! a functional website with some seriously unneccessary code).

There's a whole avenue which I don't know about. CGI, PHP, scripts and stuff. They make updating easy, but you host needs to be capable and you have to know what the hell they are in the first place (I hope i'll know one day! Updating fanlists is really hard).