Web Page Help
Most of our Internet Access account include 10 meg of personal web space. Personal web addresses are in the format http://username.domain.name.
You may also purchase one of our website plans. A Website has an address in the form of http://www.domain.name.
In both cases it is necessary to configure your web on our servers. We offer the option of either a Windows server with FrontPage extensions, or a Linux based Apache web server. Either can be set for FTP uploading.
Here are the steps for setting up a web presence. Please note that a "website" requires a registered domain name. You may either register the domain name on your own, or have us register it for you. There is a yearly charge for a registered domain name. A personal web space does not use a "registered" domain name.
1. Contact us to make sure your site has been created.
2. Create your web page or pages
3. Upload (or publish) the pages to your site.
For help in creating your web pages there are a number of books, software programs, etc. to help you with design and coding your pages. A web page is a plain text document and can be created using any text editor such as MS Notepad. More advanced programs such as FrontPage or Dreamweaver offer easier user interfaces and housekeeping advantages but the final result is still a text document. (You can write a letter on a manual typewriter or you can write a letter using a word processor. The word processor offers a host of conveniences to make it easy, but the end result is still a letter.)
Here is an example of a simple web page:
<html>
<head>
<title>My Web Page</title>
</head>
<body>
This is my web page.
</body>
</html>
Save it as a file named sample.htm and when you look at it with a web browser you will see:
This is my web page
More tutorials can be found by searching the web and in many books and software packages.