I really need a how-to on creating a landing page

I do not know exactly how to do all of this, but I do know you can use .htaccess to make your domain URL go to ‘https://www.pcatww.com/index.html’ to display anything you wish rather than going to ‘https://www.pcatww.com/index.php’ to begin WordPress. As I recall, I have done that in the past by using something like this:

## DIRECTORY INDEX FORCE INDEX.PHP for WordPress
#DirectoryIndex index.php index.html /index.php
## DIRECTORY INDEX FORCE INDEX.HTML for other
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php /index.html

note: You can use any filename you wish in place of the above ‘index.html’.

thx lee! I’ve gotten so enamored with plugins that I’d almost forgotten about html. I think GoDaddy lets me edit .htaccess so that’s certainly a good option… but geeze, icegram is so nice… it would take me ages to code all that html if i wanted a form and little doodads popping up on the page, collecting emails and whatnot.

I wonder if it would be possible to design up a landing page using icegram, and then spit out the HTML and get it all to still work. I’m old, and messing with CSS is taxing.

Anyway, thx again for the excellent suggestion. I’m assuming that as far as SEO goes, I could make that work? When these WP plugs generate sitemaps they always start from the root I assume…

I wonder if it would be possible to design up a landing page using icegram, and then spit out the HTML and get it all to still work.

I know nothing about icegram, but I would guess any html page you can view in a browser should work!

I’m assuming that as far as SEO goes, I could make that work? When these WP plugs generate sitemaps they always start from the root I assume…

Each WordPress installation knows its own “root” as specified in Settings > General, and I think all is well as long as cPanel and/or .htaccess make your domain URL land there. In other words, mysite.com/index.html is simply one page to be indexed and anything found within WordPress is another (as far as I might happen to know).

Gotcha. But it would really be nice to get metrics on who went from the landing page to either consultants and trainings. but perhaps Analytics does not care, and starts from the root… I’ll have to research that. I guess I’ll also have to research if you can create a static pages from plugin-output, and then move that page somewhere else and still have everything work. ha, maybe, maybe not. boy I’m lazy these days.

I just discovered this about a week ago and it might or might not help:
https://free-counter.org/

Yes, lee, thx again. I am actually very familiar with html tools like that, and coding in js. But that was years ago, pre-drupal, joomla, and now wordpress. But for the past many decades I’ve just hired real developers to get sites done, and I am very cheap when it comes to my own business overhead. Plus, I get to stay fresh if I at least do something other than management tasks. I just started using WordPress last year, and it’s a kick. Before that it was Drupal or worse (Jumla). And I just put together an entire MS setup for demo and training purposes for our staff: MS server, sql, sharepoint, project, etc.and oh my god who would have known things could be that complex. I really should have hired someone for that, but then again, i’m frugal – and I come to wordpress to relax, so I’ll get this all sorted. I was hoping to hear what others do in this environment for something like I am trying to do – I’ve heard of wordpress mult-sites, but not sure what that means yet. I am assuming it’s cross-linked DBs but different actual websites? Maybe I should be looking at that a bit closer. Cheers,
jigs

I’ve heard of wordpress mult-sites, but not sure what that means yet.

I know virtually nothing there, but think of wordpress.com as an example where one WordPress installation serves multiple sites that are otherwise independent.

thx. I really need to go read about that now ??