how do i put a webpage onto the internet

[weapon x]

hey

complete noob here... i'm a graphic designer and everyone seems to be after websites.

i can create websites, mosltly with the help of dreamweaver and my small amount of html i know.

question is, once i have created a webpage how does one go about getting it online?

i know you need to buy a domain name and then purchase a web hosting package.

but how do i supply it to them, is it as simple as it sounds, just create the website and they can do the rest or is there more to it?

[KDLA]

- You purchase a web hosting package (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_host)
- You or the web host purchases the domain name
- The web host sets up a folder on their server (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_server) for you to store your documents in; you also decide what the name of your homepage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homepage) will be (home.htm, index.htm, etc.)
- The web host configures your domain name to point to the agreed upon file for your homepage
- The web host then gives you an IP/server name, a user name and password to access your website's folder via FTP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTP)
- You create and/or edit the pages on your computer, then upload them via FTP to the server for publication

KDLA