Publishing Your Own Virtual Web Pages

Publishing your virtual web pages at Cloudnet involves four steps:

1. Get your own domain name  (www.yourdomain.com)  Cloudnet can register your domain name for you, or if you already have a domain name registered at a different location you can have it moved to a Cloudnet server. If you need a domain name registered or if you need an existing domain moved to a Cloudnet server, give us a call at (320) 240-8243.

2. Create your web pages.  There are many ways to create web pages.  The old fashioned way is to type out the "HTML code" manually (to see some code, click on your browser's View menu and on Source or Page Source.)  Typing the code for a page gives you the most control over the page and insight into how it works.  Most people now create web pages with an HTML editor like Netscape Composer, Microsoft FrontPage or Adobe Pagemill.  These editors look and feel like word processors, but with lots of extras that make web pages special - like being able to add links to other things.  Type some text and insert some images until you have something you'd like to publish - you can always change it later.
3. Transfer your web pages to the Cloudnet Server.  If you've used Netscape Composer to create a page,   Click Here.      If you used any other web design program or any simple text editor to create your web page files, you can use any standard FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program to transfer your pages to our server.  If you don't have one, go to shareware.com and get WS_FTP (for Windows) or Fetch (for Mac.) If you have trouble downloading or using your FTP program, call us for help.
   To view instructions for Ws_ftp for Windows   Click Here
   To view instructions for Fetch for Macintosh   Click Here

4. Viewing your web pages online - You should now be able to view the pages you just copied to the server by going to your browser and typing your virtual domain name (www.yourdomain.com) into the Address (or Location) bar near the top of your browser window and hitting "ENTER" on your keyboard.
   If you create more pages, with other names, such as otherpage.html, simply add   "/otherpage.html"  after your domain name.
   (www.yourdomain.com/otherpage.html)

Have fun!