Step by step setting up a web site If you are an advanced user, click here to choose our hosting package and starting to uploading your new web site in minutes. Otherwise, read on this short article if you have never setup any web site before... Setting up a web site is not really hard as you might imagine. There are three basic steps to do: Step One: Find a web hosting service Web hosting service provided by a company which rent some disk spaces on their web server for you to put your site on. How a web server work? When you want to visiting a web site, you are typing it's address at location bar on your browser. A web server will responding your request and sending contents of desired web site to your browser. Web server is a computer software running on a special computer systems which connected 24 hours a day and 7 days a week via fast line to the internet backbone. As you may have guessed, ChaliceHost.com is a web hosting company and we hope that we can earn from your business by rent disk spaces on our web servers. Step two: Register a domain name This is an optional step, as we can give you a free sub-domain name, but most people will want to take. A domain name are familiar with www.companyname.com or a country level domain name like www.companyname.it, www.companyname.tv, www.companyname.co.uk, www.companyname.com.au, etc. By using your own domain name for your web site, it will make easy for a potential visitors to remember your site. Without a domain name, your web site will only accessible trough yourcompanyname.chalicehost.net. Registering a domain name is a separate process from getting a web hosting services and involves a separate company from your webhosting company. Although ChaliceHost.com is not a domain registrar company, we can help you to registering your own domain name with a competitive price. Contact our sales dept to request more information regarding registering a domain name for you. You don't need to have your own domain name in order to start working on your website. You can sign up with ChaliceHost.com now and use free sub-domain name from us: yourcompanyname.chalicehost.net to access your site. Later on, when your web site are ready to "go live", you can register a domain name and we will attach it to your account at ChaliceHost.com with NO additional fee. Step three: Create, upload and test your new web site There are many option to choose to creating your web site, ranging from manually (like this site) to fully automated using many web site creator programs. Even most word processor programs can saving your document into a web page (HTML format) today. By default, web server will looking an "index.htm" or "index.html" file as a default document. Those files are case sensitive on Unix/Linux systems. Here are some web sites which will help you to start creating your web site manually by learning HTML: (note: all web site will be opened in a new window) WebMonkey Tutorials HTML Goodies HTML Help HTML & Web Site Resource Page You may also searching at Yahoo! for an exhaustive list of HTML related tutorials and guides. Once you have created you site, use a FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program to transfer all files for your new web site from your local computer to our web server. Once your files uploaded to the server, you (an anybody else which connected to the internet) can view your new web site through a web browser. Here are some web site which offering FTP programs for Windows® machines: WS_FTP CuteFTP To find another FTP programs, try to searching at Yahoo!. You may also using our web based file manager on the control panel to managing files on your web site such upload, edit, delete, rename, etc. Welcome to the world wide web! After you have these basics covered, there is still a whole world of things you can do to enhance your website. We offer free access to a great scripting engine (PHP4) which you can use to make webpages that are fully interactive and customizable for each visitor. You can get started right now by signing up for web hosting services from ChaliceHost.com. Click here to choose one of our plans which meet of your needs. Keep in mind that we have a full 30-day, 100% money-back guarantee. If you are not happy with our services, just send us an email and we will refund all fees you paid to us. You've got nothing to lose!