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)
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:
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Enter your control panel and click on the ‘Mail Manager’ link.
- 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)
- 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.
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