Creating your own home page, or a basic web site is fairly simple. First, create your site, or hire a web site developer. Then transfer it to Junctionbox. Finally, visit your site. Make sure it looks as good and appears quickly to dial up Internet users.
Web sites are composed of text files and images. The text files are written with a special code, HTML, that determines the site's appearance. We recommend outlining your ideas for your site on paper first, and then create it in HTML. If this is your first site, keep it simple.
Remember, the front page of your site (often called the home page) must be named either index.htm or default.htm to make that page appear when people surf to your site (index.html and default.html are working names too).
Your sites appearance says a great deal about you or your company. If you are looking for some ideas about how to make great sites, these are a couple of good places to start.
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is very easy to learn language for formatting web pages. It consists of content (the writing you want on your page) and tags (the formatting for your page). Below are a couple of tutorials and a link to the World Wide Web Consortium, the group that defines the tags for HTML.
These programs help make it easy to create your web pages. They allow you to focus on writing the content and placing your pictures, by helping you with the HTML.
Netscape has a good web site creater called Composer built into it. Below are links to other programs that you may be interested in using.
Junctionbox provides the space for your site on the Internet, but does not help you create the sites. However, if you need help creating your site you'll need the services of a web site developer. If you need help finding a developer, call our main office (352) 683-0349 (8:00 AM to 9:00 PM Monday - Friday) and one of our Account Managers can recommend one to you.
The best way to get the files that make up your new web site from your personal computer to your directory at Junctionbox is via FTP (File Transfer Protocol). FTP porgrams establish a connection between your computer and Junctionbox. This allows you to easily see what is in your director at Junctionbox and send files back and forth between your computer and that directory).
If you are a FrontPage 2000 user, uploading your site to Junctionbox is simple. Just click on the "Publish Web" icon, and specify ftp://ftp.junctionbox.net as the location to publish to. That's it.
These instructions are written for the basic 5M website that comes with individual Dial up and DSL accounts. They can also be applied to other accounts, just use the hostname, username and password from your Hosting Account Information sheet.
If your ftp client requires that you specify a complete path, use one of the following: ftp://ftp.junctionbox.net/domain-name-here/www
We recommend that you use a separate program, rather than the publishing features built into some HTML editors (i.e. FrontPage, Adobe GoLive). Many of these FTP programs are shareware, and allow you to more easily move files and see what is in your web directories at Junctionbox.
Windows MacOpen your Internet Browser (Internet Explorer, or Netscape Navigator) and open location: http://home.junctionbox.net/username
It's always a good idea to check your web page in more than one browser. Simply put, HTML isn't an absolute set of rules for writing your page, just a set of guidelines that some browsers follow better, or worse than others. If having a wide audience is important to you it is a good idea to check your page in another company's Internet browser. Here are a few of our favorites.
Doing an outside test will also help you ensure that your pages look and behave properly.
Now that you have created it, posted it and tested it, share your site with the world!
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