So you just bought a domain name and webhosting for your domain..

go to www.wanplanet.com if you don't have a domain name.

go to www.webune.com if you don't have a hosting plan.

if you have both a domain name and hosting, your ISP should have provided you with a login name and a user password. If you don't contact your web host and demand that they give you one. You can contact www.webune.com if you don't have a hosting yet.

now that you have you login and password, use your ftp to connect to your web directory where all you web pages will be pulblished. most hosting companies use /html, /htdocs, /public or /html which ever you host provided you with, this is the directory where you will need to publish your website.

When you connect to your website with your ftp program, you will see a file called index.html or index.htm or index.php, depending on what your host default index file is. note: some windows hosting plans use default as the index file.

When visit the wallpaperama.com webiste and your browser reads http://www.wallpaperama.com/ , do you know what file is loading? On almost all web servers, this file is index.html. When the web server sees / and no filename, it automatically looks for index.html.

For example, if you have three files in your root directory: index.html, aboutus.html and links.html, when you type your domain name without the file name, the default page to load will be the index.html. but if you were to type your domain name plus links.html, you will see the links.html file contents and not the index.html. Just remember that index.html is the default file your server or browser looks for when no file is specified.

If you're on your own domain, the files would look like this once you upload them on your server.

* http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html
* http://www.yourdomain.com/aboutme.html
* http://www.yourdomain.com/links.html

The first page, http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html, can also be loaded by just typing http://www.yourdomain.com/

Its also the same for directories (folders), if you make a directory called forums in you root directory, your will need and index file in the forums directory, so when you type http://www.yourdomain.com/forums in your browser, the http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/index.html file will load, if the forums directory is empty, you will received an error on your browser because the server does not find a default index file.

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