The vision of Verelink is to provide affordable hosting and support for all businesses. When we were choosing a direction for our company, we decided to focus on training webmasters to make use of all the tools of the internet - design, databases, programming, and more - to give their sites the maximum impact. This tutorial will help you get your website off the ground. To launch a website, there are several steps. On a basic level, you need to first prepare your web files by modifying the HTML that is on your web page. Then you will need to upload those files onto the server. Your information will then be available online for others to see. If you would like to do more advanced work that uses scripting (PHP) or databases (MySQL) then you will need to use one of our advanced tutorials. Please contact Verelink support for more guidance on how to do this.

Step 1: Learning and using HTML

Web pages appear in your browser in the form of text, tables, and images. However, the content that is sent to your web browser comes in the form of text code in the language known as HTML, which is then interpreted by your browser. There are click and point editors available that allow you to modify your website via a WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) interface, but those simply modify the HTML for you. In order to be an effective webmaster, you will need to learn the basics of HTML. While we could go into some detail about HTML, there are plenty of good guides available on the internet.
Once you have a working knowledge of HTML, you can begin to use WYSIWYG editors such as Dreamweaver and Microsoft Frontpage. These editors allow you to simultaneously use a graphical interface and text editing interface, so you should be familiar with some HTML to effectively use them. Once you have files prepared, you are ready to upload and publish your files.

Step 2: Uploading to your server
We recommend for webmasters to directly upload their pages onto the servers via FTP. When you connect to your account via FTP, you will see a list of folders. The folder that is called "public_html" or "www" is the one you want to open. In that folder, you can publish any of your files. A tutorial for using FTP is available here.

If you upload a file called "serviceinfo.htm" then people can access that file by entering "http://www.yourdomain.com/serviveinfo.htm" into their browser. If you want people to see your file by typing only "http://www.yourdomain.com" then you should upload a file called "index.htm." By default, that one will show up
if anyone enters your domain name.