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PUBLISHING YOUR WEB PAGE
Create Your Home Page
Merr.com will set up a
web directory for our Internet customers at no extra charge upon request. If
you would like us to set up your web directory, please call us anytime at
1-877-493-9470 or email us at
office@merr.com. You may store up to 60 megabytes on your web
directory at no charge. If you store more than 60 megabytes, we will
bill you $0.25 per megabyte per month for the extra megabytes.
When you first try to access your home page address you may receive the
error message "HTTP/1.0 403 ACCESS FORBIDDEN." This is because your
directory is empty - not because you don't have access to it -- it's just
that there is nothing there to access yet.
To publish your home page on the web, you must first write the page. Several
programs are available to help you author your page - try searching the web
with a search engine such as Google or Yahoo, for "HTML, Web Authoring."
Some of the more popular programs include: Microsoft Front Page, Hot Dog,
and HTML extensions to word processors such as Word. The pages are just text
files and can be written and edited with any text editor like Notepad,
Wordpad, Write, or Word.
Once you have your page written, you must upload it to your directory on our
server using the ftp address listed on your setup sheet. This is done using
an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program. Some of the more popular programs
include WS_FTP and Cute FTP. Again search the web for one if you don't
already have one. When someone tries to access your homepage address, the
browser will load a file called default.htm by default. So name the lead
file of your home page, default.htm. Make sure any links in your other pages
point back to default.htm to get to your home page. All other pages and
images that are called by your home page should also be uploaded to your
directory and the references adjusted accordingly. See FTP instructions
below.
FTP Your Home Page
You may follow these instructions to FTP files to your web space on our
server.
The following examples assume your user name is UN, your password is PW, and
your directory is at
www.merr.com/users/UN. If
your domain is shopstop.net just substitute shopstop.net for merr.com. If
you have your own domain or have had FrontPage Extensions setup see the
instructions at the end of this page at 3 and 4.
1) If you are using command line FTP, from the DOS prompt:
FTP
OPEN
to: ftp.merr.com
user: UN
password: PW
cd /UN
This will leave you in the proper directory and you can do dir, get, del,
etc. from here.
2) If you are using
WS_FTP, start WS_FTP by double clicking its icon, then in Session
Properties. Click on the General tab, and enter the following settings:
PROFILE: can be any name you want like mywebspace
HOST NAME:
www.merr.com
HOST TYPE: Automatic Detect
USER ID: UN
PASSWORD: PW
ACCOUNT: leave blank
Click on the Startup tab, for Initial Remote Host Directory, enter:
/users/UN
Click OK and you should
see the files in your web space.
3) If you have your own
domain name, such as mydomainname.com, start WS_FTP by double clicking
its icon, then in Session Properties, under the General tab, enter the
following settings:
PROFILE: can be any name you want like mywebspace
HOST NAME:
www.mydomainname.com
HOST TYPE: Automatic Detect
USER ID: UN
PASSWORD: PW
ACCOUNT: leave blank
Click on the Startup tab,
for Initial Remote Host Directory, leave this blank.
Click OK and you should see the files in your web space.
4) If you have FrontPage extensions with a web space, such as
www.mydomainname.com, the preferred way of uploading files is to
publish out of FrontPage but you may use FTP.
Start WS_FTP by double clicking its icon, then in Session Properties, click
on the General tab:
PROFILE: can be any name you want like mywebspace
HOST NAME: www.mydomainname.com
HOST TYPE: Automatic Detect
USER ID: UN
PASSWORD: PW
ACCOUNT: leave blank
Click OK and you should see the files in your web space.
FrontPage Extensions
FrontPage Extensions are available at no charge. Merr.com does not provide
technical support for FrontPage Extensions. |
