i dont know what to do?

[satrap]

i have a hosting account and a domain .but i have no clue how to get my website up and running. my hosting id with urlfreedom.com. since i don't know anything about website creating and etc i would appreciated if someone could guide me in a step by step simple language. thank you so much.

 

[scsi]

If it is your first website then you need to get a program for designing websites like Dreamweaver or Frontpage. You should read the basics at http://site-helper.com.

You create your html pages and then upload them with either the built in file manager or an ftp client.

The files go in the folder /home/<USERNAME>/domains/<YOURDOMAIN.COM/public_html

Replace your actual login name with <USERNAME> and <YOURDOMAIN.COM> with your actual domain name in the path if you use an ftp client.

The default file should be called index.html or index.htm.

You really should google for something like "beginner web design" so you can learn how it all works. Read that site-helper.com stuff it will help you out.

Good luck.

 

[satrap]

thank you so much for the help.i did some research on it and looked at the sitehelper.com and i did some stuff but when i try to look at the website it shows me a unfinished page with these stuff:
Index of /
Name Last modified Size Description-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 113_ca4582473fae7305..> 09-May-2009 00:08 244K
about.htm 07-May-2009 01:18 7.7K
cgi-bin/ 05-May-2009 09:51 -
contact.htm 07-May-2009 01:18 7.3K
images/ 05-May-2009 09:51 -
index.htm.htm 07-May-2009 01:18 8.0K
postinfo.html 05-May-2009 09:51 2.4K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.2.6 Server at makefreecashonline.com Port 80


so i am confused and don't know how i can make it be seen .as i said i don't know anything about it so i thought maybe there is a way to like make it like making a free website where you choose a template and edit and publish. lol i know its not that easy but..
any way thank you

 

[nobaloney]

That's true, you're confused. Starting at the beginning.

This is the DirectAdmin forum. DirectAdmin is a control panel for webhosting companies, and generally (but with some exceptions) it's found useful by webhosting companies using the DirectAdmin Control Panel.

As an end user who wants to learn how to create a website, you're definitely in the wrong place.

First, note that scsi wrote site-helper.com and you wrote sitehelper.com. They are NOT the same site, and we don't even know if you looked in the place scsi recommended.

Second, the site-helper.com site explains how to use DirectAdmin to host a website; it doesn't say a thing about how to design a website or how to use a program to create a website.

Now let's go into some detail: you're seeing a directory. Click on one of those files to see if any of them have content.

First rename the file (using the DirectAdmin file manager, or FTP) which you want to use as your main file. Rename it to index.html.

How do you program these files? How do you link them together? That's not so simple, and definitely beyond the scope of our program. I recommend you find a good book on website design for beginners.

Also ask your hosting company if they have a site-creation package of some sort that you can use.

Jeff