• Brief explanation about your web site
• Brief glossary of terminology
• Error Codes

Working with your Web Site

• Counters
• E-mail
• FTP
• Logging in with FTP

Brief explanation about your web site

Welcome. If you are currently a customer, congratulations, you now have a very powerful tool for your web site needs. We have provided the tools, the connectivity, and the server software to run and maintain an efficient web site. Access to your website is provided 24-7 in the form of, FTP for uploading to your web site.  If you are a beginner to web sites or the internet in general, it is advised that you find some of the rich online resources available on the Internet to help guide you in these first stages. Regardless, consider this Self Help section your "instruction manual" for your new website  and utilize the information provided.

If you are new to web hosting or the internet in general, here are a FEW of the terms you may want to learn.

• ISP - (Internet Service Provider) provides connectivity to the Internet, usually via modem and dialup lines (we DO NOT provide ISP services)
• IPP - (Internet Presence Provider) provides presences on the Internet, usually provides web hosting and e-mail services (this is what we do)
• WWW - (World Wide Web) refers to the vast web sites and such that span the Internet
• POP - (Post Office Protocol) physical e-mail accounts you log into with a username

and password to pick up any e-mail sent/forwarded to that account
• Email Alias - aliasing allows you to have multiple e-mail addresses sent to a specific

POP e-mail account (ie. pick up webmaster@yourdomain.com, sales@yourdomain.com, etc. from
one POP account rather than from several separate ones
• Email Forward - forwarding allows you to have e-mail forwarded from a specific address or POP account to another POP account (ie. have all e-mail sent to webmaster@yourdomain.com

sent to your POP account provided by your ISP)
• FTP - (File Transfer Protocol) this is how you will upload and download your web pages

etc. to and from your computer to and from your virtual server
• ASCII - used in FTP and the WWW, this is a type of file, usually any kind of file

that you can read (like a text file) falls under this classification (HTML files
should be ASCII files)
• BINARY - used in FTP and the WWW, this is a type of file, usually any kind of file

that is unreadable as text falls under this classification (graphic images, sound
files, etc. should be BINARY files)
• HTML - (Hyper-Text Markup Language) the name of the standard coding used to create

web pages, most web pages are written/coded in HTML
• Domain - this is the convention used to access a web site (www.whatever.com , etc.)

Domain names must be registered with InterNIC to be valid and usable on the internet
• Non-domain - this is usually a sub-site on someone's domain (www.whatever.com/subsite)

Non-domains do not have to be registered with InterNIC
• InterNIC - the regulatory agency that handles the assignment and database tracking of

active/inactive/available domain names. Each country has their own NIC registry service
for handling foreign (or domestic) domain names.
• Propogation - a period after a domain name is registered or transferred when the domain name

is updated amoung all the nameservers found on the Internet around the world. This period
usually lasts 3-7 days and may result in visitors not being able to visit the domain name
until the period is over.

E-MAIL (Electronic Mail) is used for communicating by "mail" with other people on the Internet. There are many e-mail programs currently being used on the Internet, please note that our tech support is versed in using Netscape Mail, Internet Mail, and Eudora Pro/Light and will not have information on how to configure/use other E-mail programs.
When setting up your e-mail program(s), the following settings will most likely be used when configuring the program.

Incoming (POP3) Server: worldwebcom.net
(NOTE: DO NOT put 'www' or 'pop', etc. in front of the domain!)

Outgoing (SMTP) Server: worldwebcom.net
(NOTE: DO NOT put 'www' or 'smtp', etc. in front of the domain!)
**Some Internet Access Providers require you to use their SMTP server.

POP3 account/user name: youraccountname
(This would be the account you have with us)

You will most likely be prompted for a password when you first try to log-in to your mail server. This password that it prompts for will be the one that you chose when you first set up that particular POP3 account.
 

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is used for transferring files (HTML pages, graphics, etc.) to/from your server. We suggest using programs specifically designed for FTP'ing (transferring) your files. Listed below are some suggestions for FTP programs to use. Please note that our tech support is versed in using WS_FTP and will not have information on how to configure/use other FTP programs.

For Windows(tm), we suggest the following ftp program: WS_FTP from Ipswitch, Inc.
You can get a shareware (evaluation) copy of WS_FTP from: ftp://ftp1.ipswitch.com/pub/win32/ws_ftple.exe

For Macintosh(tm), we suggest the following ftp program: FETCH
You can get a copy of FETCH from: http://tucows.tierranet.com/mac/files/Fetch-3.0.3.hqx
 
 

Logging in with FTP

Based on the assumption you are FTP'ing with WS_FTP (as recommended above) the following section will give you a basic run-down on how to configure and use WS_FTP for transferring files.

1. You will need your initial e-mail from Worldwebcom entitled "NEW WEBSITE  INFORMATION". Locate the part of the e-mail with your "IP #", "Login", and "Password" information.
2. You will need to start up WS_FTP. You should first be prompted with a "Session" dialog box.

• Profile Name: This is any name you wish to identify your ftp information.
• Host Name: Your IP address ("IP #" in your initial e-mail)
• Host Type: Automatic Detect
• User ID: Your login name ("Login" in your initial e-mail)
• Password: Password (BE SURE to put a check in the Save Password box)
• The remaining entries should remain empty.

- Click the "OK" button and WS_FTP should start logging you into your FTP site. If there are any login error messages in the message box in the lower part of the WS_FTP screen, please check your IP #, Login, and Password (the password is CASE sensitive, meaning 'YOURPASSWORD' is different from 'yourpassword'.
- Once you have correctly ftp'd to our server, You will see your website directory in the right-hand window.
       This is where you will ftp your files.
The left-hand window is your local computers directory.
(Note: When setting up your HTML files, BE SURE name your homepage (your main page) - 'index.htm'
Files are case sensitive. If you document says MYFILE.HTM then your file must be saved as MYFILE.HTM not myfile.htm.

Any subdirectories you would like to create may be created in the directory.

• The 'MkDir' button creates a directory.
• The 'RmDir' button removes a directory.

FTPing with Netscape Communicator

When ftping using Netscape Communicator you must use ftp://yourdomain.com/ for the location to publish to.

Counters

A counter may be added to your page by including the following line in your html document:

<img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?ft=5\dd=C\frgb=255;255;255;&df=login_name.dat">

(replace the login_name with your server login or something similar)
For additional counters (on other pages) simply add login_name1, 2, 3, etc... You can modify the look of your counter by changing the
following values:

     ft=x - ('x' equals the size of frame around counter)
     dd=A,B,C,D, or E - (you can try different ones, 5 different counter digits have been pre-installed for you (A,B,C,D,E)
     frgb=xxx;xxx;xxx; - (color codes for frame)

Invisible Counter Code
Put this code in place of the normal counter code if you do not want the counter to be visible.

    <img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?sh=F&df=datafile.dat">

To view your counter data.

 Create a html page to view counter data file.
 

    1.Create a page with the following code for the counter.

            <imgsrc="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?ft=5\dd=C\incr=0\frgb=255;255;255;&df=datafile.dat">

            With datafile.dat being the data file for your invisible counter.

    2.Ftp the html file to your  directory.
    3.View the file in your browser
.
This will not update the count for the counter.