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What Are Some Good Tutorials for HTML Beginners?

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:11:00 GMT

Here are a few basic HTML sites with useful tutorials and HTML primers are:

NCSA HTML primer - Need to know what a certain html tag does or how to get it to work? This site will explain it all.

Webmonkey.com - Need help with understanding how HTML works? This site has all the info you need.

Davesite.com - Another greate site with tons of HTML help files.

Disk Quota Explained...

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:54:00 GMT

All files associated with your web site will count towards your disk quota - these files can comprise five of different file types:

1. Web site HTML and image files.
2. User web site files
3. e-mail stored on the server
4. logfiles generated by your web site activity
5. statistics generated by the server for your site

To evaluate which of these file types are contributing most to your quota, we have a number of tools.

a. Control Pannel Disk Usage - accessed as follows:

Using a browser (Internet Explorer, or firefox will do), visit the following address

http://www.yoursite.com/cp/

(change www.yoursite.com to match your site) - you will be asked for a login and password - these were supplied to you when your account was setup. Only a web site administrator can access the siteadmin area of your site. At least one was created for you when your site was setup, and you may have created more.

On the left hand side there will be two colored bars. They will either be green, yellow, or red. If the bar is in the green your fine, Yellow is a warning that your almost at your limit and red means that your over your limit and you will be charged an overage fee.

If you do not see a reason for your site quota to be exhausted, you may have a logfile or statistics issue. Logfiles are set to rotate when they hit 10% of your total disk allowance (there will be one logfile for FTP, one for E-Mail and one for Web Traffic). These are found in the folder called 'logs', which is one folder ABOVE your main website. ie, ../../logs when you login, instead of ../yoursite.com for your website.

Logfiles are generally NOT the cause of problems except for very large sites (300Mb+). For larger sites, the FTP and email logfiles can grow over time to be a total of 20% of the quota (10% each) - ask support to reduce the size of these logfiles - we will typically set them to be 5% or even lower, as the default setting of 10% is more than is typically required.

Site statistics can accumulate over time, and sites that have been live long enough (6 months or more) can have a site statistics problem. If you suspect a site statistics problem, use an FTP program to download your stats, and delete the contents of the stats folder found inside your site web folder

If the quota overage happened during the night, it is possible that during logfile rotation, a temporary site quota overage happened - this can occur as the old logfile is being archived and should NOT be a concern. It might be advisable to reduce the size that your logfiles are allowed to grow to.

If web files, log files and statistics are NOT the issue, we are generally left with email. Make sure that user of your email are downloading there e-mail instead of just using web mail to check it.

We hope this explanation of site quotas and how they can be used up has been helpful - if you need further assistance, please open a helpdesk ticket!

Microsoft Discontinuing FrontPage

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:47:00 GMT

Microsoft FrontPage is being discoutinued and because of security reason we will not be able to provide our customers with access to FrontPage extensions as of December 1, 2006.

This might not affect some features of FrontPage and abilities to use FrontPage after December 1st, but we strongly recomend finding a different solution for your website.

For more information on this please click the file link below.

Using Front Page to Publish Your Files

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:09:00 GMT

Update: Miscrosoft will be discontinuing the FrontPage software and as of December 1, 2006 our servers will no longer support FrontPage extensions. This will might not effect FTP or editing using FrontPage, but we strongly recommend finding a better solution then trying to use out of date software. Click the file below to see more details.

You can use Front Page if you wish to upload files to your Web Your Business / AAA Business Hosting account. You will NOT need to have Front Page Extensions enabled, simply follow this tutorial EXACTLY and you can use your Front Page software as an FTP program.

This tutorial assumes a BASIC UNDERSTANDING of FrontPage. This tutorial can help you move forward once you have created your entire web page. This example will be focused on one file, index.htm, the basic starting point for any web site.

Step 1: Open Microsoft FrontPage

If you are starting your website from scratch, you will need to build your pages first. In this example, we have simply created a text page.

Step 2: Saving Part 1

Save your file by using the "File > Save As" command. FrontPage will save your file in a "My Web" folder in your "My Documents" folder. Name the file "index.htm" and click OK or hit the Enter key.

Step 4: Publish Web

Now that you have saved "index.htm" in your "My Webs" folder, click "File > Publish Web"

Step 5: Change Publish Destination Part 1

When the "Publish Web" dialogue box appears, click the "Change" button in the upper right-hand corner. A dialogue box called "Publish Destination" will appear. You must now click "Browse" located to the right of the default publish destination.

Step 7: Change Publish Destination Part 2

Once you have clicked "Browse" on the "Publish Destination" dialogue box, you will see a new dialogue box called "New Publish Location".

Here you will type EXACTLY as follows:

ftp://www.yourdomain.com/yourdomain.com/

(You must swap in you actual domain name in the first and second part of the address, but without the www in the second)

You MUST include the trailing slash "/" in this field.

Step 8: Connect to the Publish Destination

You will see the "Publish Destination" dialogue box again, this time, the address will look exactly like this:

ftp://www.yourdomain.com/yourdomain.com/

Click OK or hit Enter.

Step 9:

Once the FTP session has been initiated and you have connected to the server the first time, you must enter your administrative login name and password, supplied to you in the Welcome email you received when you started your Web Your Business / AAA Business Hosting account.

* Enter Login Name
* Enter Password

Click OK or hit Enter.

Step 10: Uploading Your Work

When you have connected the server, you will see on the left side of the dialogue box the files in your "My Web" folder, in this case "index.htm".

On the right side of the dialogue box you will see the contents on the server, and you should see 4 folders:

* certs
* logs
* users
* web

The web folder is where your website will reside.

Step 11: Finalizing Upload

Double-click the web folder on the right side of the dialogue box to open the web directory. If this is the first time you are uploading files, there will be a Web Your Business holding page here called "index.html". You may rename this file "index.html.old". Websites can only have one unique index, in this example it will be "index.htm".

If you have a site already on your server and you are attempting updates or over-writes BE CERTAIN to read all warning messages carefully, as FrontPage will delete everything in your web folder unless instructed not to.

Now that the web folder is open on the right side, and there is no index in place (or existing index has been renamed "index.html.old") we can upload the new index.htm.

Use your mouse to control-click all the files on the left side of the dialogue box. Holding down the left mouse button on the highlighted left-side files will allow you to drag them over to the right (onto the server in the web directory).

This will take a moment and if it completes successfully, FrontPage will indicate the upload was successful.

Step 12: Review Your Work

Now you are ready to open a browser and type:

http://www.yourdomain.com

When the page loads, you should see your Microsoft FrontPage index page.

I am Having So Many Problems with FrontPage... What Can I do?

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:07:00 GMT

The important thing to understand is that FrontPage is built with Microsoft proprietary technology, meant ideally to run on Windows servers.

The FTP (File Transfer Protocol) system has been in place for more than 30 years. In the development of FrontPage, Microsoft saw fit to use HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) exclusively for file transfer. It will work in the Windows server environment, but will have issues in a UNIX environment. This is why FrontPage must have all destination directories changed from HTTP to FTP in order to upload successfully to the WYB/AAA UNIX servers.

Web Your Business / AAA Business Hosting utilizes UNIX servers for a multitude of reasons including speed, reliability, and security. FrontPage can be made to work around its flaws, and can publish to UNIX servers (SEE FRONTPAGE UPLOAD TUTORIAL)

There are hundreds of alternatives to the constraints created by FrontPage. One very easy way to simplify your experience is to use a traditional FTP program:

-LeapFTP - CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A FREE TRIAL VERSION OF LEAPFTP

-CuteFTP - CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A FREE TRIAL VERSION OF CUTEFTP

-WSFTP - CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A FREE TRIAL VERSION OF WSFTP

These FTP programs can cut down the steps you'll need to take to upload your finished pages. Even if you design in FrontPage, it is wise to learn how to use these UNIX compliant FTP programs as they offer a superior ease of use to the built in FTP capabilities of FrontPage.

We can't support your technical issues with FrontPage, since we don't condone or utilize Windows servers, we can however try to ease your transition to technology other than Microsoft's which you may find entirely easier and incredibly more intuitive. When in doubt, consult our FrontPage upload tutorial and good luck.