• Webpage Creation
• File Transfer
• Checking your work
• Advanced Stuff

Webpage Creation- There are literally thousands of different ways to create your web page but the bottom line is that they need to be formatted in an HTML format so that web browsers can read your files.  HTML is simply a standard text file that has “markup” tags that tell a web browser what the page should look like.  It has been extended over the years to incorporate a variety of additions and third party add-on's but still retains the core elements designed over 10 years ago.

You will start by creating a copy of your personal or business website on your local computer first.  When you get the site or page looking the way that you want, then you can transfer it up to the web server hosted at WebGuy Internet. In its most basic form you can create an HTML page using Notepad which comes free with all versions of Windows.  You can then view the local files with any web browser.  Although, the preferred way of editing web pages, involves a variety of different code based or object based webpage editors.

The most popular and most powerful webpage editor (and the editor preferred by WebGuy Internet) is made by Macromedia called Dreamweaver.  It retails for about $399.00.  Macromedia also makes a “lite” version of their popular Dreameaver software called Contribute.  This usually retails for about $99.00.  There are literally thousands of other different web design programs and a good place to start is at download.com (technical support on web authoring software is NOT supported by WebGuy Internet.  We can offer basic help and suggestions on Dreamweaver and Contribute but no other software.)

File Transfer- Once you have all of your files completed and all your files link up correctly you will need to send your files to our web server so that your public can see the pages you just created.  The main page (or default homepage) of your site should have the file name of index.html and be located in the root directory of your website.

In order to transfer the file to our servers you will have to use an FTP client (File Transfer Protocol) to move the files from one computer to another.  There are just as many FTP programs as there are HTML editors but here are some popular suggestions. WS-FTP is Free for non-commercial users (and the WebGuy Internet suggested FTP client).  CuteFTP is another popular program which retails for about $39.  LeechFTP is another such FTP program which is distributed for FREE. Some webdesign programs, such as Dreamweaver and Contribute, have FTP programs built-in to their interface. It is always advisable to use these rather than an external FTP program.

Here are some values that you will need to enter into your program to connect to our servers:

You will need to transfer all of your files into the public_html directory on your account.  This directory will be the root directory for your account.  You will also want to remember to transfer any supporting files for your website such as images and linked files.

Checking your work- If you run a virtual web server on your account (e.g. www.yourdomain.com) then you will only need to load your website main page to verify that your changes have taken place.  If you use a personal website and do not have a virtual domain then your address to access your website will be something like http://www.webguyinternet.com/<username>.  If you try to access this address and get an error please contact WebGuy Support because on some older accounts a configuration file may need to be updated by us.

Advanced Stuff - If you would like to take advantage of our powerful webserver you can checkout all of the great HTML tags that you can integrate into your website. These tags allow a webdesigner access to some pretty advanced features through some very easy HTML tags. For example you can generate on-the-fly images and text through simple HTML tags or have complete control of SQL queries with HTML. All of it is parsed and created whenever a client access your page. To read more about of webserver and get documenation about it you can visit here.