Create your first site — Reocities Docs

Create your first site

A new site takes about a minute. You need an account and a name.

1. Pick your subdomain

Your site lives at yourname.reocities.xyz. Names may use letters, numbers and hyphens. Choose carefully: the subdomain is how people find and link to you.

2. Add an index page

Every site needs a file called index.html at its root. That is what visitors see when they open your address. The simplest possible version:

<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>My site</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Hello</h1>
    <p>This is my corner of the web.</p>
  </body>
</html>

Paste that into the file manager, save, and open your address. That is a published website.

3. Add style

Create style.css next to your index page and link it from the <head>:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css">

Paths beginning with / are resolved from your site root, so they keep working no matter which page links to them.

4. Fill in your profile

A short bio and a few tags make your site discoverable in Browse. Sites with no description are much harder for anyone to stumble across.