How to Share Multiple HTML Files With One Link

You don't have one page anymore — you have a pile. Here's how to put a whole set of HTML pages behind a single link, in the order you want them seen.

You started with one page. Now you have nine.

It always starts innocently. You drop one HTML file, you get one link, you send it. Easy. Then you do it for the deck. Then the one-pager. Then the dashboard your agent built on Tuesday, the FAQ, the thing you almost forgot.

Sharing a single page is a solved problem — we wrote the short version of it here. But nobody warns you about the moment after that, when one file has quietly become nine, and someone asks the question you dread: "can you send me everything?"

Now you're staring at a pile of links. And a pile of links is not a thing you can hand someone. It's a chore you're about to hand them.

The three bad workarounds

Most people reach for one of these. None of them are good.

The thing you actually wanted wasn't a website and wasn't a zip. It was a single front door to a set of pages.

The one-link way

That's what a collection is. You group several of your published pages behind one public link — host-html.com/c/your-name — and that link becomes the front door. You decide which pages go in, what order they appear, and a one-line blurb for each. The pages themselves don't change; each still lives at its own /p/ link. The collection just gives the set of them somewhere to live together.

If you want the full picture of what collections are and who they're for, that's what the collections page is for. This post is the how-to: getting your specific pile of pages into one.

How to do it, step by step

1. Publish the pages first. A collection is built from pages you've already put up. If a page isn't live yet, drop it on host-html and get its link — same five-second flow as always.

2. Open your account and make a collection. Hit make a collection and give it a title. The title is what people see at the top of the page, so name it like you mean it — Studio 2026, not untitled (3).

3. Add your pages and order them. Pull in the pages you want, drag them into the order you want them read, and write a short blurb for each so the reader knows what they're clicking.

4. Publish. You get a clean link like host-html.com/c/beautiful-html. Send that. One link, the whole set.

Order is the message

Here's the part the bad workarounds can never give you: sequence. A pile of links has no order. A collection does.

When you put the deck first, the metrics second, and the FAQ last, you're not just listing pages — you're telling the reader how to read them. The blurbs do the same job a good caption does: they remove the guesswork. The reader never has to wonder what is this one and why am I looking at it. You've already answered.

That's the difference between sending someone your files and sending someone your work.

What happens when a page goes dark

We'd rather tell you the edges up front than let you find them later.

When one link beats many

Collections earn their keep any time the answer to "can you send me your stuff?" is more than one page:

Start with three

You don't need nine to feel the difference. Pick three pages that belong together, give them a title, and send one link instead of three.

Make your first collection → · new to all this? Start with the collections overview, or read why we built them.