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The vision of Crossmap.net is to provide affordable hosting and support for all Christians to equip them to spread the good news of God over the internet. When we were choosing a direction for our company, we decided to focus on training webmasters to make use of all the tools of the internet - design, databases, programming, and more - to give their sites the maximum impact. This tutorial will help you get your website off the ground, no matter how you wish to glorify God with it. To launch a website, there are several steps. On a basic level, you need to first prepare your web files my modifying the HTML that is on you web page. Then you will need to upload those files onto the server. Your information will then be available online for others to see.If you would like to do more advanced work that uses scripting (PHP) or databases (MySQL) then you will need to use one of our advanced tutorials. Please contact the Crossmap.net support for more guidance on how to do this.
Step 1: Learning and using
HTML
Web pages appear in your browser in the form
of text, tables, and images. However, the content
that is sent to your web browser comes in the form
of text code in the language known as HTML, which
is then interpreted by your browser. There are click
and point editors available that allow you to modify
your website via a WYSIWYG (What you see is what you
get) interface, but those simply modify the HTML for
you. In order to be an effective webmaster, you will
need to learn the basics of HTML.While we could go
into some detail about HTML, there are plenty of good
guides available on the internet. We would like to
recommend the Webmonkey HTML guide as a good primer
for HTML instruction:
http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/teachingtool/html.html
Once you have a working knowledge of HTML, you
can begin to use WYSIWYG editors such as Dreamweaver
and Microsoft Frontpage. These editors allow you to
simultaneously use a graphical interface and text
editing interface, so you should be familiar with
some HTML to effectively use them. Once you have files
prepared, you are ready to upload and publish your
files.
Step 2: Uploading to your
server
We recommend for webmasters to directly upload
their pages onto the servers via FTP. When you connect
to your account via FTP, you will see a list of folders.
The folder that is called "public_html" or "www" is
the one you want to open. In that folder, you can
publish any of your files. A
tutorial for using FTP is available here.
If you upload a file called "serviceinfo.htm" then
people can access that file by entering "http://www.yourdomain.com/serviveinfo.htm"
into their browser. If you want people to see your
file by typing only "http://www.yourdomain.com" then
you should upload a file called "index.htm." By default,
that one will show up if anyone enters your domain
name. If you have more questions about HTML, you can
post under our forums in our HTML/CSS section.
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