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40+ "Flash-based" Support Tutorials
These tutorials are useful in learning how to use your web hosting account, your control panel, managing your domain name, and more.


Control Panel Tutorials 
Creating a POP email account
Creating a default (catchall) email account
Creating an email account in Outlook Express
Creating an autoresponder
Creating a subdomain
Creating custom error pages
Password protecting a directory
Creating a MySQL database
Managing a MySQL database in PHPMyAdmin
Installing FrontPage extensions
Using File Manager
Using Index Manager
Enabling Hotlink Protection
Redirecting a URL
Redirecting mail
Changing contact email address & password
Creating an add-on domain
Creating an FTP account
Backing up your site
Using Webmail 

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Tutorials on Changing DNS Settings

Making DNS changes at 000domains.com
Making DNS changes at Dotster.com
Making DNS changes at Enom.com
Making DNS changes at GoDaddy.com
Making DNS changes at MelbourneIT.com.au
Making DNS changes at NameCheap.com
Making DNS changes at NetworkSolutions.com
Making DNS changes at OpenSRS.net
Making DNS changes at Register.com
Making DNS changes at StarGate.com
Making DNS changes at DRAMS (dramsystem.com) 

Tutorials on using WS_FTP 
Configuring your site (create a new site, delete an existing site, modify an existing site, setting startup preferences, create a new folder)
Transferring files (setting options, viewing file contents, upload/download files, setting file transfer mode)
Managing your files (file sorting preferences, file display preferences, viewing files/directories, changing directories, renaming directories, creating directories, deleting directories, setting file permissions) 

Tutorials on using FrontPage 2002 
Publishing your web via HTTP
Publishing your web in live mode via HTTP
Publishing your web via FTP
Deleting files off your server
Creating forms in FrontPage
Password protecting a directory (subweb)
Changing your password in FrontPage 

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Web Hosting is what you need when you want to make a website visible for everyone on the internet to see. Simply put, your website needs to be "hosted" somewhere on a server. You could setup your home computer as a server, but that wouldn't make much sense if you plan on generating a lot of traffic or "hits" for your site. This is because firstly, your computer must ALWAYS be on AND connected to the internet for your website to be accessible by others via the internet. If it's off, no one will see it.

Secondly, running your own server can be a complicated task (if you're unfamiliar with server software, etc) resulting in downtimes that may take a lot of time and energy to correct.

Thirdly, your home or business's internet connection is not likely adequate to host your own site.... especially if you want to achieve lots of traffic to your site. At best, you may have a cable modem connection, or even a T-1 connection (very rare among small businesses).

For the above reasons, the vast majority of companies and individuals with a website, out-source their Web Hosting needs to Web Hosting companies like . You get an "always-on" internet connection, a team of internet professionals to keep your website up and running, and a super-high bandwidth connection to the internet (many hundred times faster than a cable modem).

When you get a Web Hosting account from , you are given access to a portion of one of our servers. This is done by assigning you a unique username and password which you use to connect to your hosting account. Once a connection is established, you simply "upload" your website files to their server, and PRESTO... your website is instantly visible on the internet for millions of people to see!

There are probably many different definitions for "website", and the one found at www.dictionary.com is as follows:

Website web·site or Web site   (wbst)
n.
A set of interconnected webpages, usually including a homepage, generally located on the same server, and prepared and maintained as a collection of information by a person, group, or organization.

A website usually contains many files, organized into folders and subfolders, in much the same way as you have files organized into separate folders on your computer. The "main" page of a website is usually called "index.htm" or "index.html" or "default.html". When you type a web address (or domain name) into your browser (i.e. www.bishmore.com), your browser will look into the hosting account that the domain name is pointed to, and look for one of these main file names. If it finds an index.html file in the website, that will be the file (or page) that gets displayed in the browser first, and automatically.

The index.html file will typically have a combination of text and images arranged in such a way that the website designer finds visually appealing. Text would be embedded right in the webpage, whereas images would simply be referred to.... as they would actually be files of their own. The image files may reside in your website (in your hosting account.... either along side your other webpages or files, but typically in an "images" folder or directory), or they may be images located elsewhere on the internet. Some of the text and images on a webpage will also be hyperlinked to other webpages (i.e. you will be able to click them, and be taken to another webpage). It is this combination of all webpages, image files, and other files you may have in your hosting account, that make up the complete "website".

To simplify, "websites" typically contain many "webpages" and "image files".

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