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[wolf63]

I currently have a website which is a blueyonder one. I load it all up on-line. But it is impossible to be creative or get things to go where you want them.

www.sm13.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

I bought myself a domain and email address - spur of the moment purchase. I now want to put a better site on this. This is where my moronic brain gets confused - do I have to 'find' webspace to actually put my stuff on. Have I only bought the name?

If this is the case can anybody suggest somewhere reliable that I can get the space from?

When I was leaving school they were just starting to allow pupils to use calculators.

Susan

[wolf63]

current site is http://www.sm13.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

[fo3nix]

If you want your own website, you need to get someone to host it for you, i.e., put it on their computer (a 'server'). Blueyonder, as you know, offer this as a free service. Most ISPs do I believe.

If you buy a domain, then you have two options. You can either set it up to simply point to your current host (blueyonder), or you can buy some hosting somewhere else for a fee. The former is perfectly fine but the address in the address bar of your browser will change to .pwp.blueonder. etc. which in some ways takes away the point of the domain. The latter will keep the domain showing just like most other sites, but you'll have to pay some small fee.

I found web mania to be pretty decent hosts for a personal site. Not a bad price either for what you get.

If you decide to go down this latter route, you'll simply have to purchase a hosting package at web mania, and then change the nameservers for your domain. This is done from the control panel from whatever site you used to buy your domain with.

[wolf63]

Frightening, I know, but I understood every word of that and it makes sense.

My brother is an IT specialist, but is not the most patient person in the world - especially with me.

Thanks - I will go for a nap before diving into web mania and making a total mess.

Susan

[SuperPigeon]

You are probably well on your way but I use tripod. Search it on google and you get it pretty much first. Its completely free and you can actually see what your creating without any html stuff. Well easy. Should be a tutorial on there as well.
Hope this helps

[fo3nix]

If you have any more problems just ask again on here; plenty of knowledgeable people on here.