please help me understand site folder system

[newbieLL]

I'm brand new to bluehost. I just started my own site and I've obviously bought way over my head in terms of what I can do with the site, it's just for a personal hobby. I keep trying to put up a temporary web page to my site but when I go to it directly (www.unrequited-love.com) I keep getting the white screen saying Index, listing some files, etc. I just don't understand where to put my folders/files. I"ve put them in folders and files all over the place. Can someone help? :confused:

What I do understand tolerably well:
how to use filezilla in a general way
ftp protocol to connect to my site
I can see my folder/file system and move around in it

What I do not understand:
What folder or area to attach or place my website pages
How to continue to put new files/folders onto my site for others to see

[Early Out]

Any files that you want to be visible to the outside world must be placed in public_html. If you put an index.html file in public_html, that's the page that people will see when they go directly to your domain.

[newbieLL]

Thanks for writing back, I appreciate it...
Well, I have a something in public_html called UL_temporary, and cgi-bin, and unrequi1. THe UL_temporary contains (I think) all my website page info, but no file called index.html or similar. Files are called UL_temporary.htm, UL_temporary.text, UL_temporary001001.jpg, UL_temporary_g.css, UL_temporary_p.css....

[Early Out]

In a new account, public_html should contain only a cgi-bin subdirectory, maybe a php.ini file, and some error page files (all named "400" or "500" something). Anything else that's there is stuff you've managed to put there. What are you using to build your web pages?

[newbieLL]

web easy pro...I have a site hosted on yahoo that it seems to work with just fine, but I"m having real trouble understanding bluehost and/or using web easy pro with it.

[Early Out]

Time to hit the video tutorial!

http://tutorials.bluehost.com/webeasypro7/

[newbieLL]

oops, I hadn't seen this, I'll give it a try....thanks!

[Early Out]

For reasons that escape me, BH has made it almost impossible to find all these tutorials, and there's loads of good stuff out there!