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[vimtojoe]

Apologies if wrong forum.

I'm a bit slow and not very knowledged on computers + programming so try to explain in basic language.

I've bought a domain from GoDaddy.com
I'm using atspace.com as my web host.

So far I've put atspace's name servers onto GoDaddy's. After this, I'm a bit stuck.

I have no idea what to do next,
or how to get something showing on my websites

Please explain the steps of what I need to get running and connected. Thanks.

Edited by vimtojoe, 07 July 2011 - 09:10 AM.

[Revolt]

Ok if you've got that far it now depends on whether or not you want to learn how to actually use PHP and other languages to create a site or you just want to create a simple site and edit content using a graphical editor.

If you are looking forward to learning how to create your own site from scratch you could have a look at a blog post I made some time ago outlining the general process of going about it: Revolt - Blog - Tutorial - Making a Website

If on the other hand you could care less about coding or don't want to code it from scratch, the next step is installing a CMS (Content Management System). There are a multitude of those the most popular being:
- Joomla!
- Open Source Content Management System - Open Source CMS - CMS PHP - CMS Made Simple
- Drupal - Open Source CMS | drupal.org
- WordPress › Download

You can find detailed instructions on how to install and edit content in each of the CMS on their respective websites. You can also find lots of addons and themes which can be easily installed to extend the basic funcionality of your site.

[vimtojoe]

My problem is less to do with what to put on the website, HTML, or such. It is more involved in how do I get something to show on my website, how do I get it all running so people can view it?

[Revolt]

Well since you've already configured the namespaces on your domain accessing the site through the aforementioned domain should open the index.html that resides at the root of www on your atspace.com account.

To add new things to the site you just add content to the www folder (may also be called public_html or other stuff depending on the host). So if you were to add a contact.html to www/ and a index.html to www/mysubsite1 you could access them using www.mydomain.com/contact.html and www.mydomain.com/mysubsite1/ respectively.

If this still hasn't answered your question I'm sorry but I'm having trouble understanding what your specific problem is.

[vimtojoe]

I have 0 knoweldge on this which makes it harder for me. I think you're giving the right info but it still doesn't read as English to me.

Also when I attempt to upload a file I get this message - [Error 0x04001]: Some file(s) was not uploaded!

[bbqroast]

You may wish to call your provider(s) about this. Check is you need to setup your domain name on atapace, when a request is sent to your server Apache (Apache is probably the web server) checks its URL and reads its config files to try and find the htdocs file that this request is for, generally on a shared hosting plan multiple sites will be handled by a single instance of Apache which has a single IP.
Also the nameservers must know your domain (unless all of the servers run on the same IP).

Thats my subtle understanding...