First Upload

[Guest]

Thanks again to all the very helpful people here.... I am very new....

I registered my domain and I am now ready to upload my web pages from my computer. My hosting site
recognizes front page headers.

So.. Now.. do I have to do any special naming? In other words, how does it work, that when you type www.xyz.com
in an address bar, that my home page will appear? What do I need to do, so that my hompage is called up when my domain address is entered.

If thats a stupid question, just remember I'm new!!

 

[Steve Easton]

Have you or your hosting company entered
your domain name in the Domain Name Server
( DNS ) system.??

You should have received details from them
telling you what your primary and secondary
"Name Servers" are.

The name servers are what convert
www.yourdomain.com into the address that a browser
uses to find your web site.

It takes 24 to 48 hours for the domain name to
propagate throughout the DNS system.

To see if yours has, open a DOS or Command
window and type: ping www.yourdomain.com
or dot net whichever is appropriate.
If it returns a numerical IP address that looks like
123.456.789.123 then it has.

Then to publish, open your web in FrontPage.
Click File > Publish Web... and enter
http://yourdomain.com and click OK
Enter you're user name and password and
your web "should" publish.


--
Steve Easton
MS MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed..................
...............................with a computer

Thanks again to all the very helpful people here.... I am very new....

I registered my domain and I am now ready to upload my web pages from my computer. My hosting site
recognizes front page headers.

So.. Now.. do I have to do any special naming? In other words, how does

it work, that when you type www.xyz.com

in an address bar, that my home page will appear? What do I need to do,

so that my hompage is called up when my domain address is entered.

 

[Crash Gordon]

BTW...something that aways confused me as a newbie:

You can name the local copy on your machine anything that you want...XYZmystupidwebsite...XYZmysmartwebsite...etc. and as long as you publish it to http://xyz.com that's what it will be called on the server...doesn't matter what you call it on your local machine.

So..I have on my machine XYZexperimental....XYZ2003...XYZcurrent

hope I didn't confuse you.

Rob


| Thanks again to all the very helpful people here.... I am very new....
|
| I registered my domain and I am now ready to upload my web pages from my computer. My hosting site
| recognizes front page headers.
|
| So.. Now.. do I have to do any special naming? In other words, how does it work, that when you type www.xyz.com
| in an address bar, that my home page will appear? What do I need to do, so that my hompage is called up when my domain address is entered.
|
| If thats a stupid question, just remember I'm new!!