what to do after buying hosting?

Andr3w · 25 Jun 2006 at 20:11

Hey, so im going to buy some hosting soon to host a site.

Thing is, once ive been to the website,bought the hosting for like £3 per month or whatever it is. What the hell do i do then

As ive never done it before im not sure, how do i actually get my website ONTO the internet? I have the html files/css file and images i need.
What exacly do i do

Andr3w · 25 Jun 2006 at 20:44

how do i set up the host name

edit: im ready to upload all my files now for you guys to have a look at

Andr3w · 25 Jun 2006 at 20:49

ohhh, im going to buy hosting from somewhere now, which is the cheapest?

Andr3w · 25 Jun 2006 at 20:57

if i go with http://www.123-reg.co.uk/ i can buy hosting for about £1.49 a month and a .co.uk domain name for 2.59

Andr3w · 25 Jun 2006 at 21:19

actually i will buy a reg from somewhere, and then for the time been i will use my free 55mb ntl webspace just to practise on

edit: just bought www.nedsurf.co.uk from 123 reg

edit2: for some reason nedsurf.co.uk goes to a page but the one above doesn :confused:

Andr3w · 26 Jun 2006 at 10:32

i got a html layout from somewhere on the net. And then edited it that way, i did it like that so i can like see how tis done etc, im going to keep slowly editing it. Then i will try make a design from scratch,but its so much hard trying to do it via notepad than dreamweaver