Altherr Web Design http://www.altherrwebdesign.com/blog Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:46:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Adding images to your page http://www.altherrwebdesign.com/blog/adding-images-to-your-page.php http://www.altherrwebdesign.com/blog/adding-images-to-your-page.php#comments Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:43:15 +0000 Joey http://altherrwebdesign.com/blog/adding-images-to-your-page.php One of the most simple things that you can do on a web page is add an image. There are two steps to the process. The first is to upload the image that you want to add to your server, and the second is to put the HTML code on the page for the image. Alright, first create your image and save it as either a .jpg or .gif file. These 2 files are usually what’s used on the web, since they are small files and load quickly when visitors download your page in their web browser. I’ve created an image named sample-image.jpg. Now that I have my image, I need to put it on the server. To do this, I use an FTP program. If you don’t have one you can download one for free at www.aceftp.com. Once you download and open ACEFTP you put your server information in, as shown below

Once you are logged in you will see a bunch of folders, double click on the folder named “public_html” and then on the one named “images”. Find the image that you created on your computer and simply drag it and drop it into your images folder in the right-hand window of the FTP program.Next thing to do is go to the file manager and follow the directions that I gave you in my previous post Editing Your Pages With cPanel. You’ll want to enter the following code on your page in the location where you want the image to be


That’s it! Now go to your web page in your favorite browser and your image will be on your page.

]]> http://www.altherrwebdesign.com/blog/adding-images-to-your-page.php/feed Creating email accounts on your domain http://www.altherrwebdesign.com/blog/creating-email-accounts-on-your-domain.php http://www.altherrwebdesign.com/blog/creating-email-accounts-on-your-domain.php#comments Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:25:38 +0000 Joey http://altherrwebdesign.com/blog/creating-email-accounts-on-your-domain.php It’s simple to create new email accounts on your domain. The first thing you want to do is login to your cPanel, by going to www.yourdomain.com/cpanel and typing in your username and password. Once you’re in cpanel click on the “Mail” icon

Once you’re in the mail administration section you’ll see a list of options. Click on the one titled “Manage/Add/Remove Accounts”. enter the new email address, password and quota. If you plan on receiving a lot of images or big files, be sure to set this at 200mb or higher, if just a standard email account you can set it at around 50. Once you fill out all of the information, click the “Create” button at the bottom left of the page.

Now, you’ll want to add the account to your email client (Thunderbird, Outlook Express, etc.). Just fill in the following information for setting up an email account and you’ll be ready to go.Display name - The name you would like the people to see when receiving your emails
email address - The email address you set up
pop3 server (incoming mail) - mail.yourdomain.com
username - The email address you set up
password - the password you created
smtp server (outgoing mail) - This one is a little tricky. You can enter mail.yourdomain.com if your internet service provider allows it. If not, you’ll have to enter their smtp servers. The following 2 are the most popular in Cincinnati
Zoomtown - smtp.fuse.net
RoadRunner - smtp-server.cinci.rr.com

If you need any assistance, don’t hesitate to email me.

]]> http://www.altherrwebdesign.com/blog/creating-email-accounts-on-your-domain.php/feed Editing your pages with cPanel http://www.altherrwebdesign.com/blog/editing-your-pages-with-cpanel.php http://www.altherrwebdesign.com/blog/editing-your-pages-with-cpanel.php#comments Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:09:04 +0000 Joey http://altherrwebdesign.com/blog/editing-your-pages-with-cpanel.php If you see a typo, or need to change a small portion of text, on your website there’s an easy way. Instead of breaking out your Dreamweaver or FrontPage software, just login to your cPanel using www.yourdomain.com/cpanel. Once you are in cPanel you can navigate to the File Manager icon

Once you’re in the file manager, click the folder icon next to the public_html folder.

Once you are in the public_html folder you will see a list of all of your pages that are on your website. Click the file name that you would like to edit and you will get a list that pops up to the top right-hand side of the page. Click on the “Edit File” text and you will open a new window with the HTML code of your web page.


Make the changes to the text in there and click the “Save” button at the bottom of the page.

That’s all there is to it. If you’re not sure what you’re doing then don’t mess with any of the other non-text code, if you need major updates then you can simply send me an email and I’ll make the changes for you at a rate of $35 per hour.

]]> http://www.altherrwebdesign.com/blog/editing-your-pages-with-cpanel.php/feed Welcome to the new blog http://www.altherrwebdesign.com/blog/welcome-to-the-new-blog.php http://www.altherrwebdesign.com/blog/welcome-to-the-new-blog.php#comments Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:11:10 +0000 Joey http://altherrwebdesign.com/blog/?p=3 Thanks for checking out the new blog from Altherr Web Design! I created this blog to keep all of my customers informed about what’s going on with the company. There are also a lot of questions that I receive on a weekly basis about how to do things, so hopefully I’ll be able to use this blog as a little tutorial to walk you through some things that you may want to know about your websites or hosting. Check back in the future, I plan on blogging about two or three time per week starting out and we’ll be able to see how useful it is. If there’s something that you would like me to cover in here, then send me an email and I’ll get it posted.

Thanks,
Joey

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