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Getting Started

The first, and probably most important of all the steps is to get your website published to the internet. Because there are many programs that will allow you to upload your site, we having taken the time to give you actual screen shots of many of the most popular tools for uploading your page, based on what our current customers are using. Below is a list of programs that we currently have (note: if the program that you are using is not listed here, you can still use it, we have simply not added it to our list yet)

Publishing ToolsFTP Clients
FrontPage 97 WS FTP
FrontPage 98 Cute FTP
FrontPage 2000 BulletProof
Netscape Composer LapLink
Dreamweaver DOS
Adobe GoLive Fetch
Adobe Page Mill


When you upload your site to the internet, you will want to make sure that you name your main page ‘index.html’, as this is how our system will recognize your page. Also, make sure that you are uploading your site into the ‘www’ directory.

Now that you have your site uploaded, the next step is to setup your email accounts using the ‘Mail Manager’ feature on your control panel. Here are the steps you will go through in order to complete this task:

  1. Enter your control panel and click on the ‘Mail Manager’ link.
  2. Once you are in the ‘Mail Manager’ you will notice that you already have a ‘default’ mailbox and also a mailbox with your ‘username’ that was setup with the account. The default box acts as a catchall box and it is automatically setup to forward to the mailbox with your username. If you do not wish to use the mailbox with your username, you can delete this address by clicking on the link for this address on the left side of the screen. Once you do this, you will also need to do one of two things, either setup a new mailbox and have your default mail forwarding to that box, or enter the default box through the link to it on the left and set that box to ‘Bounce Default Email (i.e. reject all email that does not have an address.) (Note: the default mailbox is setup to get all email addressed to all_addresses@yourdomain.com that do not have mailboxes setup for them, for example; you use marc@yourdomain.com and someone sends an email to mark@yourdomain.com, this message would be forwarded to the default box)
  3. To add a new email address click on the ‘New Address’ link on the left-hand side of the page. You will need to enter a username for the account, this will be the email address without the @yourdomain.com, you will then need to setup a password for the specific email address, this can be whatever you would like it to be. Click ‘add’ when you are finished.


The next step is to set-up your email client to enable you to retrieve the email from the addresses that you just created. You may either go into your control panel and click on the Web Mail icon to use our browser based mail or use one of the many programs available. While there are a large number of email clients available for you to use, we have screen shots for a few of the more popular programs for your assistance. Please click on the link below for the email client that you are using, you will need the username and password for the email account that you just set-up, as well as the outgoing mail server (smtp server) provided by your ISP so that you will be able to send email messages if you choose on of these clients.

Email Programs
Outlook 97
Outlook 98
Outlook 2000
Outlook Express
Outlook For Mac
Claris
Pegasus
Eudora Light
Eudora Pro
Netscape
Netscape Communicator

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