Hello,

Thanks to some advice on this forum I managed to connect an ftp account and successfully uploaded my html and css files under the public_html directory under filezilla. However, when I type in my domain it still simply displays the default cpanel page. Does anyone know why this might be the case? I used hostgator for both the domain and hosting.

Talk to hostgator. It will be something in your server configuration.

or you have uploaded to the wrong folder

or maybe something as simple as your homepage incorrectly named. It should be index.htm