How do i Put my Web site on the internet??

[Alex_MacD]

I have made an HTML website but i do not know how to put it on the internet...Can someone help me plz??

[Daria]

In order for your site to be on the web, you need to host it on the server. You need to find a hosting provider for your website.

[starrwriter]

Originally posted by Alex_MacD
I have made an HTML website but i do not know how to put it on the internet...Can someone help me plz??

First sign up for a web host. If you don't know how to use an FTP client to upload your website files, you need a host that offers browser uploads. Try http://www.brinkster.com

[Alex_MacD]

Thanks for your help but when you have a site it may be in a folder like.... My documents or something if so how do u put the url on the hosting to make the web hosting work??

[Salimacatwoman]

If you have built your site files,next you have to get a domain,of course that if you choose a free hosting service like many sites have,example geocities,you only have to upload the files.

I built my site with Dreamweaver (macromedia)bought a domain that was not expensive and can be paid by year (www.godaddy.com) and got a free redirect hosting at www.freewebs.com

[Ben Rogers]

Yep. So you'll be moving those files to your server, and they should tell you how to do just that. Geocities is good for your very first site. Good luck!!! Ya gotsta post a url (http://www.domain.com/whatever/) when you get it up!

[chris9902]

I am guessing (sorry if i am wrong) but you don't know what to do when someone says go to geocitirs.

1) you need a yahoo Mail account. you can get this here ( http://login.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=uk&.lg=uk )

2) when you have signed up for that (if you need to) go to http://geocities.yahoo.com/

3) sign in using your new (or old) yahoo id and password

4) on the right click "easy upload"

5) click browse and select your files. and when you have finished uploading all your files

6) on the next page that comes up click on "file manager"

7) now if any of your files (like images) are in a folder on your computer you need to make a folder for them on yahoo.

so just under "Subdirectories" click new then make the folder the same name as the one used on your computer.

8) now any files that should be in there just click the box to the left of the name and then choose "move". choose the folder from the drop down box and press "move files"

do this until you site is like what it is on your hard drive with all the folders and files in the correct place.

if you do not have any folders just put them all in the main directory, so when you upload them just leave them were they are.

if you need more help just post


:)

[Paul Jr]

Originally posted by chris9902
I am guessing (sorry if i am wrong) but you don't know what to do when someone says go to geocitirs.

1) you need a yahoo Mail account. you can get this here ( http://login.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=uk&.lg=uk )
Not necessarily. You can sign up for a Geocities account without having to get their stupid e-mail account.

[chris9902]

yes but it gives you a yahoo account. used for Email, Chat, Geocities so on and so on

[Paul Jr]

Originally posted by chris9902
yes but it gives you a yahoo account. used for Email, Chat, Geocities so on and so on
True, true. Lol, I guess I'm just partial 'cause I never liked them anyways. :D

[Sam]

yahoo has always been my #1 spam account

[Ben Rogers]

yahoo does mail right., i think. easy access, mail alerts. spam blocker; the geosh177ities is only a bonus.

[PeOfEo]

Originally posted by chris9902
I am guessing (sorry if i am wrong) but you don't know what to do when someone says go to geocitirs.

1) you need a yahoo Mail account. you can get this here ( http://login.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=uk&.lg=uk )

2) when you have signed up for that (if you need to) go to http://geocities.yahoo.com/

3) sign in using your new (or old) yahoo id and password

4) on the right click "easy upload"

5) click browse and select your files. and when you have finished uploading all your files

6) on the next page that comes up click on "file manager"

7) now if any of your files (like images) are in a folder on your computer you need to make a folder for them on yahoo.

so just under "Subdirectories" click new then make the folder the same name as the one used on your computer.

8) now any files that should be in there just click the box to the left of the name and then choose "move". choose the folder from the drop down box and press "move files"

do this until you site is like what it is on your hard drive with all the folders and files in the correct place.

if you do not have any folders just put them all in the main directory, so when you upload them just leave them were they are.

if you need more help just post


:) Geocities is an abysmal host and you will live to regret using them. They cap the bandwidth low, have tons of ads, their ads use invalid code, they give you no server side scripting options which drastically limits you, they cap file sizes and types, and no one is going to take you seriously if you use them. By the way, web based upload forms suck, ftp is much more conveiniant.

[Paul Jr]

Originally posted by PeOfEo
Geocities is an abysmal host and you will live to regret using them. They cap the bandwidth low, have tons of ads, their ads use invalid code, they give you no server side scripting options which drastically limits you, they cap file sizes and types, and no one is going to take you seriously if you use them. By the way, web based upload forms suck, ftp is much more conveiniant.
True up, G.

http://www.t35.com/ seems to be pretty good. Except they'll insert one line of adcode in the wrong place! Other than that, they're pretty good.

But if free hosts are going to insert ad code, why can't they make it valid? I mean, they're these huge corporations, with millions of dollars, dozens of designers/developers/programmers; yet they can't manage to insert valid code in a valid place? Man... :mad:

[PeOfEo]

Originally posted by Paul Jr
True up, G.

http://www.t35.com/ seems to be pretty good. Except they'll insert one line of adcode in the wrong place! Other than that, they're pretty good.

But if free hosts are going to insert ad code, why can't they make it valid? I mean, they're these huge corporations, with millions of dollars, dozens of designers/developers/programmers; yet they can't manage to insert valid code in a valid place? Man... :mad: because parsing it in after the /html tag is easier to do and harder for users to screw up. Its either that or frames I guess.

[Ben Rogers]

Yeah. Valid code can't be expected if you're not going to pay for your services.. would be great though. And as much as I hate GeoSh177135 now , they're an excellent learning server.

[PeOfEo]

Originally posted by omega
Yeah. Valid code can't be expected if you're not going to pay for your services.. would be great though. And as much as I hate GeoSh177135 now , they're an excellent learning server. No, you are paying for hosting, one way or another. Those ads are what pays for your hosting, so its not like the host is getting stiffed. If they are going to put ads on there, then they need to do it in a way that does not affect the accessability of your site. Or you find a new host, you do not need to pay them (with making your visitors suffer with ads) if they are not going to give you the courtesy of making the code valid and their by making your site inaccessable.

[Ben Rogers]

I guess. But it is true that if you're using JS for the ad code and you don't want to invalidate the site's code. and you put it in the <head>, someone will find a way to screw it up. It's just the way it is.

[PeOfEo]

Originally posted by omega
I guess. But it is true that if you're using JS for the ad code and you don't want to invalidate the site's code. and you put it in the <head>, someone will find a way to screw it up. It's just the way it is. Thats why you track the hits the ads get (by putting a hit counting script inside of an iframe). Then if that iframe is on the page that opens in the new window if it is infact a new window, or if the ad is in frame, you can compare the sites total hits to the number of times the ad is viewed and then look into the site yourself if there is a huge difference. Thats just how I would try to rig up a monitering system if I were a major host.

[Ben Rogers]

Hm.. maybe the pplz who made the ad-putter inner or whatever it's called, i donno, didn't think of that or were too lazy to do so. You know what would also be good? If they let you put the code in where you wanted to put it, and then just checked to see if it was there.

[PeOfEo]

Originally posted by omega
Hm.. maybe the pplz who made the ad-putter inner or whatever it's called, i donno, didn't think of that or were too lazy to do so. You know what would also be good? If they let you put the code in where you wanted to put it, and then just checked to see if it was there. Thats why I said track it, because there is no way to visit all of those sites. What I suggested would probably fail some of the time, but I cant think of any better way to track it.If you put in your own code, you would naturally put it at the very bottom, or just do what some people do already and drop a <div> over it using css. How could they check to make sure its there? Parse your documents? <!-- <ad code> --> ?

[Ben Rogers]

Hm. So basically the only way to do it is being done. That sucks... but there has to be a valid way of putting it in!

[PeOfEo]

Originally posted by omega
Hm. So basically the only way to do it is being done. That sucks... but there has to be a valid way of putting it in! Well if the host uses a frame, they could have the decency of using a frameset doctype, and if they parse it in after the <body> tag or inbetween the <head></head> tags then they should atleast use the type attribute, specify an alt for images, etc. Angelfire for example parses code into the head and body sections and it could not be more grusome.

[Ben Rogers]

Ugh. Something would have to die if they put my site into frames. Maybe there could be something that you'd sign up for that you use valid code, and they'd parse your page for the <head> where they'd put in the <script>, and if they didn't find it then they'd put it in like every other line to discourage cheaters... ;)

[PeOfEo]

Originally posted by omega
Ugh. Something would have to die if they put my site into frames. Maybe there could be something that you'd sign up for that you use valid code, and they'd parse your page for the <head> where they'd put in the <script>, and if they didn't find it then they'd put it in like every other line to discourage cheaters... ;) or just delete the accounts because its a violation of the sla.

[Ben Rogers]

whatd does sla stand for? is it like a tos? but still, even thatd take too long. there'll probably never be a perfect solution.

[PeOfEo]

sla = service licence aggreement
tos = terms of service
they are the same thing.

[Ben Rogers]

Ah, ok. I knew what a T.O.S. was but was clueless on the S.L.A. thing.

But do you think it's possible to have 100% valid code with a parsed in <script>?

[PeOfEo]

Originally posted by omega
Ah, ok. I knew what a T.O.S. was but was clueless on the S.L.A. thing.

But do you think it's possible to have 100% valid code with a parsed in <script>? yes, if they use the type attribute, and even though the language attribute is not neccessary it should still be used
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">

[Ben Rogers]

Isn't that invalid in XHTML 1.1?

[JoJoNAloha]

Ok, I am not able to pay for my website, but I don't want stupid popups. I currently use geocities, but PeOfEo is bashing them. I noticed the limited bandwidth...that is dumb, why the hell do they meter it hourly? I can see metered daily, but dang, that's like cutting my bandwidth even more, nobody is going to visit my site at 4 o'clock...it's just like my friends, if I'm lucky. Anyway, who do you think provides the best free service:fewest popups, most bandwidth, etc. Oh, and I want to have a forum, and heck even passwords...where is that not against the SLA. I heard it is on geocities, but I had links to forums on bravenet and another one, seeing which one people liked better...with the ads again. Anyway..thanks. Jonathan

[PeOfEo]

http://europe.webmatrixhosting.net all the way, they are trial hosting for asp.net developers. There is a faq in my profile. No popups, unlimited bandwidth, ftp, smtp, code behinds, 20mb space, 10mb on mssql server. This host is great but it is geared towards asp.net like I said before so you are not going to be able to use any other forms of server side scripting, and you are going to have the same file restrictions you would have had on other sites such as no .mp3 files, and all, but that is because this is not designed for personal sites but rather learning.

[Ben Rogers]

well http://www.t35.com/ is great- the popups r the only drawback. As for your site, JoJon, it needs some work. I'll still put it in the links page (in progress ;)) but, ah...colors, frames, fonts, needs css. the list goes on, but as beginner sites go, it's not bad.