check out https://petrapixel.neocities.org/blog/neocities-automatic-deployment and https://petrapixel.neocities.org/coding/git-tutorial
and search up how to upload folders and https://neocities.org/site_files/download download your site, hope this helps
the git init method is hard so manually adding all your folders and files should be faster. also do not update your site when you have the zip file, it'll be outdated and all changes will be reverted
yo cool (just logging on to ncities lol)