Share an HTML site with its CSS and images

Ways to share an HTML folder with its CSS and images

Why sending just the HTML file breaks your CSS and images

When you email or chat an index.html file by itself, the person who opens it only gets the text of that one file. Their browser looks for relative paths on their own computer, cannot find your style.css or images folder, and shows unstyled text with broken image icons.

If you Only have one self-contained file with inline styles, turning a single HTML file into a website is enough. As soon as you have separate CSS, JavaScript, fonts or pictures, you need to host a ZIP file or upload the whole folder together so every file sits at the same relative path on the server.

• Keep paths relative: write href="css/style.css" or src="./img/logo.png" rather than file:///Users/you/Desktop/logo.png.
• Match exact letter case: src="Hero.PNG" will fail if the file in your folder is named hero.png.
• Name the entry page index.html: a subpage saved as about.html opens at /about.html, or at /about/ if placed at about/index.html.

Tip: On every plan, a direct folder drop is sent as one request of up to 10 MB with the files encoded inside it (roughly 7 MB of raw files). For larger image folders, zip the folder first to get up to 25 MB on the free plan or 100 MB on Pro.

Which tool should you use to share your HTML site

ship.page is the fastest pick when you want to send a live link to a client, a teacher or a friend right now without creating an account. You drop the folder or use ZIP to website hosting, and anyone with the link can open it immediately with no password wall. Every page sends a noindex header and is kept off public listings, so search engines leave your client draft or personal page alone.

Other hosts fit better when you need a custom domain or huge asset counts. Cloudflare Pages Direct Upload requires a Cloudflare account, but its free plan allows 1,000 files per dashboard drag-and-drop (20,000 via the wrangler CLI) at up to 25 MiB per file and up to 100 custom domains per project on name.pages.dev (note that Cloudflare's docs now suggest starting new projects on Workers). Netlify Drop takes folders and ZIPs (best under 50 MB, with single files over 10 MB prone to getting stuck), though an unclaimed drop sits behind a temporary password and expires on its own unless you sign in. GitHub web upload (Add file, Upload files) takes up to 100 files at a time at 25 MiB per file without Git installed and publishes to username.github.io/repository a few minutes after you turn on GitHub Pages in Settings.

When to claim your page or use Pro ($4/month)

You can use drag and drop website hosting on ship.page without signing in. If you sign in with Google or an email link (no credit card), you can claim the upload to manage it from your dashboard. Free pages cannot be updated in place; uploading a revised folder creates a new link, and free pages display a small "Hosted on ship.page" badge that visitors can close.

If you are sharing work with a client and expect revisions, Pro is $4 a month (monthly billing, cancel anytime). Pro pages don't expire while you're on Pro (or let you pick any expiry from 60 seconds), let you re-upload a folder to update the site while keeping the exact same link, remove the badge, add password protection, and raise limits to a 100 MB ZIP (400 MB unpacked) and 10,000 files. Pro also gives you up to 5 custom subdomains like yourname.ship.place that you can point at any of your pages.