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Starting a website

Postby d_24 on Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:38 pm

I am a complete and utter newbie on this and I've run in to a few problems that I REALLY need help with. Any kind of advice on this and I will be extremely grateful.

I went and bought two domain names off 123reg.co.uk. I got the two domain names but I don't know what to do after that. I think I need somewhere to host my websites so I looked in to free hosting, couldn't find anything and then accidentally purchased hosting on one of them :S Stupid I know but it really was a case of "whoops i clicked a button by mistake".

Since I know have purchased hosting I thought I might as well make use of it, I got told I needed to use a FTP client to upload my html files but I have no idea how to do this.

I'm so clueless and frantic that I've spent money on something I can't use I'm really tearing my hair out. Is there anyone out there who can help me do this? Or maybe a web designer who can do this all for me and I'll pay them for their efforts?
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Re:

Postby Daniel on Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:20 am

Hi,
Sorry no one has responded to you yet. Were you still wanting to hire a website designer? Email df83 if you're interested, and I'll show you some examples of my work.
Daniel

Quoting d_24 from 19:38, 2nd Dec 2007
I am a complete and utter newbie on this and I've run in to a few problems that I REALLY need help with. Any kind of advice on this and I will be extremely grateful.

I went and bought two domain names off 123reg.co.uk. I got the two domain names but I don't know what to do after that. I think I need somewhere to host my websites so I looked in to free hosting, couldn't find anything and then accidentally purchased hosting on one of them :S Stupid I know but it really was a case of "whoops i clicked a button by mistake".

Since I know have purchased hosting I thought I might as well make use of it, I got told I needed to use a FTP client to upload my html files but I have no idea how to do this.

I'm so clueless and frantic that I've spent money on something I can't use I'm really tearing my hair out. Is there anyone out there who can help me do this? Or maybe a web designer who can do this all for me and I'll pay them for their efforts?
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Postby munchingfoo on Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:12 am

You'll probably be able to use internet explorer as your ftp client if you aren't to bothered about functionality.


Go to the website where you bought hosting and try to find the ftp server details (the almost certainly sent you an e-mail with a user name and password too - do you have this?)


Open IE and in the line where you normaly type http://www.thesinner.net type ftp://thehostcompaniesserver.

IE will then ask you for the username and password. This should open a window much like the one you have when browsing through the files on your computer.

Ensure that the html file you want to be displayed at the root menu is called "index.html". Then copy and past it into the IE window. Simple as that.

You also need to link the server space to the domain names you bought, but the company you bought the server space from will most likely help you with this.

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Postby Guest on Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:55 pm

Download an FTP client such as WinSCP (http://winscp.net/eng/index.php) then use it to access your website www.example.com. Once you've accessed it you can transfer files of your local computer to the site. If you upload an html page called pictures.html you would find it at www.example.com/pictures.html. Just do that for each page until all your content is online.
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Thanks!

Postby d_24 on Sun Dec 23, 2007 10:24 pm

Cheers for the replies they've been helpful.

I downloaded a FileZilla client and that seems to work pretty good. My only problems now have been making webpages of any decent quality. My html skills are pitiful at best (yes I know, clearly I'm a born website owner).

Ideally I'd like to get some advertising on the site, does anyone have any idea how to go about that?
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Re:

Postby HarryP on Sun Apr 27, 2008 5:29 pm

I'm in a similar position - bought a domain a year ago without a clue and tried using their hosting thing at the time (although was a free one page thing) but it never seemed to work.

Right now I've just set up a blog and pointed the domain name towards that.

For advertising:
- Sign up as an affiliate at places you want to advertise (if there are particular things - eg poker, casino, amazon)
- Use Google AdSense to generate random adverts that are meant to be relevant to your content.
- I'm sure there are other things too... please let me know what they are!
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