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Contents:
Control Panel
In order to manage your account you must login to your Control
Panel (see demo). The login
information was included in your welcome letter. At your Control
Panel you will be able to change the password on
your account, configure your email aliases, configure your
POP3 accounts, make payments, check payment history, access
your site files, and
change your billing contact information.
User
Name & Password
The very first thing to do is print out (and put in a safe
place) the username and password sent to you in your welcome and
instructions letter. This information is needed not only to
upload pages, but to log into your control panel and manage your
account.
How to Set up Your Web
Site
For visitors to see something when
they find your site, you need to have created the web site
and placed all its files on your computer. These are the .html files
and the graphics files which make up your site. If you do not
have these already, and do not know how to make them, we
suggest you research the internet (Google) for some of the thousands of
sites that will help show you how to make your web site. Or,
for a fee starting at $100 we can provide this service for you.
Please go to
Web Site Design for more information.
You can make your web site in a simple program like notepad
(which is on your computer already), or you can purchase an
HTML editor (FrontPage, DreamWeaver, etc.) If you know nothing about making web pages,
or you don't have the time to do so, you may wish to have us
create the site for you (Web
Site Design).
If you are using FrontPage, you will need to
configure it to work with our servers. Please see the
FrontPage
Quick Start.
Transferring
Files
(Note: If the following seems totally foreign to you, or
you don't have the time to do it, you may wish to have us
perform the transfer activity. We will perform this for a fee
starting at $150. Please contact us at (512) 576-8393 and ask
for Chris.)
Once you have your web site files created and
saved on your computer, you need an FTP program to upload them
to our server.
We suggest you use WS_FTPX shareware. If you don't have it already, you
can download it by clicking
here.
You will need 3 pieces of information from us to upload
your website (these come to you in the welcome letter when you
first signed up):
- Host Address: you will log in using
ftp.yourdomain.com as the host address.
- Username: Your username will generally be the
first eight letters of your domain name, minus the www. and
minus the .com, .net, or .org extension. In the event there
is a dash in your domain name, your username is the
characters before the dash.
- Password: Your password for uploading files is
the same as that for logging into your control panel, which
is at the bottom of the welcome letter that was sent out to
you.
WS_FTPX
Tutorial
Step 1: On startup,
Ws_ftpx displays the Session Properties dialog box.
The
Profile Name is any name you wish to give the Ws_ftpx profile.
The Host
Address is your domain name with ftp. in front of
it (for instance, ftp.foxautos.com).
Enter
your User Name and
Password. NOTE: If you are going to use FrontPage to create or
maintain your web site DO NOT place ftp in front of the domain
name. Use http://www instead. This
will look like http://www.foxautos.com.
If this is not done you will lose all your FrontPage extensions
when you use any FTP program. The Host Type is Automatic detect. Click the Ok
button when you are done entering your info.
Step 2: After Ws_ftpx is logged-in, double-click on
the pages directory. This is
your root level
directory, and the location to which you will publish your pages.
Make sure you will be transferring a file with the name of index.html.
If this is not present your site will work. The left window shows the files and directories on your
computer, and the right
window shows what's on our server
(the remote host). Select a file and use the arrow buttons to
move
files to and from the server.
NOTE:
1. The
pages directory is your root directory.
2. All CGI scripts must go in the
cgi-bin directory.
ASCII vs Binary
- text based files get uploaded in ascii mode (.txt, .doc,
.html, .cgi)
- non text based files are uploaded in binary mode (.jpg,
.gif, .exe, .mdb, .zip)
If you are transferring a batch of files instead of just one
at a time you can initiate (click) ASCII first and AUTO next.
Then the program will figure out whether to use ASCII or BINARY
when transferring.
If you are not using
FrontPage, once you've connected you'll have to change to the
pages directory to upload your files. If
you upload without doing this your site will not work.
If you are using FrontPage, you will need to
configure it to work with our servers. Please see the
FrontPage
Quick Start.
Setting up
Email
- Log into your Control
Panel with your username and password.
- If you already have an email account with your present
ISP and want to keep using it, you can just have your mail
forwarded to that account. Click the "Email Aliases" tab and
add the aliases you want to use with your domain name. Then
put your present email address in the "Forwards To" field.
- If you want to have your mail come to our mail server
and bypass your ISP's mail server, click the "Pop3 Accounts"
tab and enter all the accounts and their passwords. These
passwords will be used when you set up your email client.
- Read the email
tutorials for configuring your email program to download
mail.
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