Rental & Homestay Template Guide

This guide shows you how to turn the template into your own website and publish it. No coding skills needed: follow the steps one at a time. Baca dalam bahasa Indonesia.

1. What is in the package

To look at your website at any time, double-click index.html and it opens in your browser. After editing and saving, press Refresh in the browser to see the change.

2. Indonesian words in the code

UpVire is an Indonesian studio, so the names inside the code are Indonesian. You never need to rename them, and every setting has an English comment next to it. The words you will meet most:

Comments in the file are written in both languages, Indonesian first and English on the next line.

3. Getting ready: an app to edit with

index.html is a plain text file. You need an app that edits text as-is, not a word processor like Microsoft Word.

Recommended: Visual Studio Code (free)

Download it from code.visualstudio.com (Windows, Mac and Linux). Open the app, choose File → Open Folder, and pick the template folder. Click index.html in the list on the left to edit it.

Without installing anything

• Windows: right-click index.html → Open with → Notepad.
• Mac (TextEdit): open TextEdit → TextEdit → Settings (or Preferences) → Open and Save tab → tick "Display HTML files as HTML code instead of formatted text". Without this setting TextEdit damages the file when saving.

Finding text

Press Ctrl+F (Windows) or Cmd+F (Mac) in your editor and type a word you see on the website. The editor jumps straight to it. This is the fastest way to find anything you want to change.

4. Quick start

If you are in a hurry, work through this list. Each step is explained in full further down.

1. Unzip the file and double-click index.html to see the starting point.
2. Fill in your WhatsApp number, with country code, under PENGATURAN.
3. Choose the default language, and whether visitors can switch.
4. Replace the name and sample text with your own.
5. Put your photos in the foto folder and link them.
6. Set your currency, replace the room types and prices (change data-harga), and set the number of rooms available.
7. Adjust the facilities, distances and rules to your property.
8. Match the colours to your brand.
9. Go through the checklist, then upload to Netlify or your web host.

Allow about 1–2 hours if you are new to this, most of it spent preparing photos and writing your own text.

5. WhatsApp number

This is the most important step. Without a number, the "Ask" buttons, the rent calculator and the viewing form do not work yet.

1. Open index.html and search for PENGATURAN (Indonesian for "settings"). It is near the bottom of the file.
2. Find this line:

   nomorWhatsApp: '',

3. Type your number between the two quote marks, starting with your country code:

   nomorWhatsApp: '+44 7700 900123',

   Spaces, dashes and the + are fine: only the digits are used.
4. Save, then refresh the browser. Click one of the WhatsApp buttons: WhatsApp opens with the message already typed.

While the number is empty, the buttons and form only show a reminder. This is on purpose, so no visitor messages a wrong number.

6. Replacing the text

Every name, number, story and project in this template is an example. The easiest way to replace them: search for the text you see on the website (for example Kos Melati) with Ctrl+F / Cmd+F, then replace it.

Must replace

Removing a section

Each section starts with a comment such as <!-- ── ULASAN / REVIEWS ── -->. To remove it, delete from the <section below that comment to its matching </section>. Also remove its menu links (search for href="#ulasan").

7. Replacing the photos

The coloured boxes with an icon are photo placeholders. The template ships without photos on purpose: photos of your own rooms and building are far more convincing than stock images.

Steps

1. Save your photos in the foto folder. Use lowercase names without spaces, for example room-a.jpg.
2. In index.html, find the photo box you want to replace. It looks like this:

   <div class="foto lebar">
       <svg ...>...</svg>
   </div>

3. Replace the whole <svg ...>...</svg> part with:

   <img src="foto/room-a.jpg" alt="Short description of the photo" />

   Fill in alt with a short description. Google and screen readers use it.

The photo is cropped neatly to the shape of its box automatically.

Photo size

• About 1200–1600 pixels wide is plenty.
• Keep each photo under 300 KB so the site loads fast on phones. Compress for free at squoosh.app.
• Phone photos are usually 3–5 MB. Always compress them first.
• Photograph rooms from the doorway so the whole space shows, lights on and bed made. Show the bathroom, kitchen and front of the building too.

8. Two languages

This template shows in Indonesian and English. Every text is written twice, side by side:

<span lang="id">Layanan</span><span lang="en">Services</span>

Only the active language is shown. Edit both whenever you change a text, and never change the lang="id" and lang="en" markers themselves.

Default language and the ID/EN switch

• The default language is set on the <html lang="id"> line at the top of the file. Change it to <html lang="en"> so new visitors see English first.
• The ID/EN switch in the navigation is controlled by tombolBahasa: true in PENGATURAN. A visitor's choice is remembered in their browser.
• Direct link: add ?lang=en (or ?lang=id) to the end of your address, e.g. yourbusiness.com/?lang=en, to open a specific language. Handy in proposals and social profiles.

English only?

This is the most common setup outside Indonesia:

1. Change the top line to <html lang="en">.
2. Set tombolBahasa: false in PENGATURAN. The switch disappears.
3. Edit only the lang="en" texts and the data-en... attributes. The Indonesian texts stay in the file but never show, so you can leave them as they are.

You can use any other second language the same way: write it in the lang="id" slots and relabel the switch button (the ID text inside id="pilih-bahasa").

Text inside attributes

Some text is not shown directly on the page, so its English version is an extra attribute starting with data-en:

Room prices are written once, as a number in data-harga, and shown in the visitor’s language: IDR 1,200,000 in English and Rp1.200.000 in Indonesian. Set your currency in PENGATURAN (mataUang: 'USD', 'GBP'…), see Rent calculator and deposit. Each room type’s English name is in data-en-nama.

9. Pages, look and dark theme

The menu at the top does not just scroll: each menu item opens its own page, with its own link and a smooth transition. It is still one index.html file, so everything you edit stays in one place.

How the pages are made

• Every link in the top menu, e.g. <a href="#fasilitas">, becomes a page made of the section with that id.
• A section that is not in the menu joins the page before it. Everything before the first menu section is the Home page.
• The Home page lists every page as a card (Explore), and each page ends with a Next card. Both are made automatically from the menu and each section's <h2> heading.
• Each page has its own address, e.g. yourbusiness.com/#fasilitas. Share it on social media or in a WhatsApp message to open that page directly.

Adding or removing a page

1. To add one: give a section an id (lowercase, no spaces) and add a link to it in the menu: <a href="#yourid">Name</a>.
2. To remove one: delete its link from the menu (the section then joins the page before it), or delete the section and its link.

One long page instead

Set halamanTerpisah: false in PENGATURAN. The menu then scrolls down one long page, as on a classic one-page website.

Light and dark theme

• The default theme is set on the first line of the page: <html lang="id" data-tema="otomatis">. Use otomatis to follow the visitor's phone or computer setting, terang for light, or gelap for dark.
• The sun/moon button lets visitors switch, and remembers their choice. Hide it with tombolTema: false in PENGATURAN; the page then always uses the default theme.
• Your colours (--utama) work in both themes. The dark theme’s colours are in the CSS block marked Tema gelap / Dark theme, near the end of the styles.

The glass look and the animations

The frosted-glass cards, the soft moving colour in the background and the animations are in the CSS block marked KACA (glass). You do not need to change anything there. Two values you may want to tweak, at the top of that block:

Visitors who turned on Reduce motion on their device get the same pages and themes without the animations.

10. Room types and prices

Each room type is one <article class="tipe"> block. The parts you change are in its opening tag:

<article class="tipe" data-kode="a" data-harga="1200000" data-nama="Kamar Standar" data-en-nama="Standard Room">

• data-harga: the monthly price, digits only, in the currency set in mataUang. The price on the card and the numbers in the calculator are made from this value, so change it only here.
• data-nama and data-en-nama: the room name in both languages. This is what appears in the calculator and the WhatsApp message. Match it to the <h3> text.
• data-kode: an internal marker; anything you like, as long as each type is different.

The price text inside <span class="harga"> is only a fallback for visitors with JavaScript turned off. The price shown normally follows data-harga automatically.

Available or taken

Two places: add the word penuh (full) to the card’s class (class="tipe penuh"), and change the label on the photo:

<span class="status-unit habis">...Taken...</span>      (taken)
<span class="status-unit ada">...Available...</span>    (available)

Taken rooms appear faded, and the "Ask" button stays so people can join a waiting list.

Adding or removing a type

Copy one whole block to add, delete one to remove. Three types look best on wide screens. After changing the types, update the choices in the viewing form too.

11. Rent calculator and deposit

The calculator is automatic: it reads every data-harga, builds the list of rooms, and works out the rent, deposit and total up front. Visitors can send the result to WhatsApp with one click.

What you set in PENGATURAN:

depositBulan: 1,
mataUang: 'USD'

• depositBulan is the deposit as a number of months’ rent. 1 means one month, 2 two months, 0 no deposit.
• mataUang (currency) is the three-letter code of the prices in data-harga: 'USD', 'GBP', 'EUR', 'AUD', 'SGD', 'IDR' and so on. The symbol, separators and decimals follow the language automatically.
• The lengths of stay (1, 3, 6, 12 months) are the <option> lines in <select id="k-durasi">. Each value is the number of months; the English text is in data-en.
• Don’t want the calculator? Delete the whole KALKULATOR section and the href="#hitung" menu link.

12. Rooms available

The badge in the hero is set in PENGATURAN:

kamarKosong: 3,

• A number above 0 shows a green dot "3 rooms available".
• 0 shows a red dot "Fully booked · ask about the waiting list".

Remember to update this together with the status on each room card. They are written separately.

13. Location, rules & facilities

• Distances: each <li> line has a place and its distance. Travel times ("5 min walk") are easiest to picture. Add or remove lines as you like.
• House rules: one <li> per rule. Write the rules that really apply; clear rules prevent problems later.
• Facilities: six <div class="fasilitas"> blocks. Change the names and descriptions; the icons can stay.
• Google Maps: find google.com/maps/search and replace the part after query= with your property name or address (spaces become %20). More precise: open your property in Google Maps → Share → Copy link, and paste it in place of the whole href="...".

14. Viewing form

The form sends one WhatsApp message with the name, room type, viewing date, move-in date and length of stay, in the language the visitor is viewing.

The room choices in the form are written separately from the room cards. Whenever you change a type, change its choice too. Search for data-label="Tipe kamar" and edit the <option> lines (English name in data-en="..."). Dates in the past cannot be picked.

Change the opening sentence in data-wa-form / data-en-wa-form on the <form> tag. The form does not store data anywhere, so keep your list of enquiries from WhatsApp.

15. Changing the colours

Near the top of the file, find :root. Change these two lines to your brand colour (utama means primary, gelap means dark):

--utama: #0e7490;
--utama-gelap: #155e75;

--utama-gelap is a slightly darker shade, used for gradients and hover states. Find colour codes with Google: color picker. Avoid very light colours for --utama, because white text on top of it becomes hard to read.

16. Publishing your website

Before publishing, go through the checklist below.

Option A: Netlify (free, easiest)

1. Create a free account at netlify.com.
2. Go to app.netlify.com/drop.
3. Drag the whole template folder (the one with index.html and the foto folder) onto the page.
4. Wait a few seconds. Your site is online at an address like random-name.netlify.app, which you can rename in the site settings.

To update the site later, drag the folder again onto that site's Deploys page in Netlify.

Option B: a web host with cPanel

1. Log in to cPanel → File Manager → open public_html.
2. Click Upload and upload index.html and the foto folder with its contents. (Or upload a ZIP, then right-click → Extract.)
3. Open your domain in the browser.

The guides and licence files do not need to be uploaded.

Option C: GitHub Pages (free)

Handy if you already have a GitHub account. Create a public repository, upload index.html and the foto folder, then under Settings → Pages choose the main branch and the / (root) folder.

Using your own domain

Buy a domain from any registrar (Namecheap, Cloudflare, Porkbun and many others). In Netlify, open the site settings → Domain management and follow the steps. With cPanel hosting, the domain is usually connected when you buy the plan.

17. How the link looks when shared

When your link is shared on WhatsApp, LinkedIn or other social media, the preview shows the title and description from og:title and og:description near the top of the file. Replace both. These two do not switch language, so write them in the language of your main market.

To show an image too, prepare a picture of about 1200 × 630 pixels, save it in the foto folder, and add this line right below og:description. The address must be complete, including your domain:

<meta property="og:image" content="https://yourdomain.com/foto/cover.jpg" />

18. Checklist before publishing

Open your website in the browser and check each item:

• The WhatsApp number is filled in with a country code, and the buttons open the right chat.
• No sample names, addresses, prices or numbers are left, in both languages (or the language switch is off).
• All photos show (no placeholder boxes left).
• Every room card shows the right price in the right currency, and the calculator matches the cards.
• Each room’s status (available or taken) and kamarKosong are true.
• The deposit in PENGATURAN matches your policy.
• The house rules and distances are correct.
• The room choices in the viewing form match the room types.
• You sent yourself one test viewing request and the message arrived complete.
• The browser tab title and og:title are replaced.
• Tested on a phone, not just a computer.
• Every button clicked at least once.

19. If something goes wrong

Want us to set it up?

If you'd rather not edit it yourself, there is a Website Setup Service (sold separately): we edit this template to your brief and put it online on Netlify's free plan, in an account in your name. Look for Website Setup Service in the UpVire shop where you bought this template (Gumroad, Etsy or Lynk.id).

Questions about your purchase or download can be sent through the product page on the platform where you bought it.