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Personal Web Site FAQ:
What is a Personal Web Site?
A personal web site is as service allowing you to create and store your very own Web pages
on Norwood Light's Broadband servers. You can create and publish web pages using any
standard HTML tools.
Norwood Light provides this service as part of your subscription to our
Broadband Internet service.
10 Megabytes of storage is included in each web/email account.
Why create a web site?
There are many reasons why you may want to create a Web site. A Web site is your
personal area on the World Wide Web (WWW). Your website is public and may be seen by any
person with Internet access. You may use your web site for:
- Sharing news and photographs with family and friends.
- Sharing your favorite hobby.
- And many other uses.
Creating a Web site is easy and Norwood Light Broadband will help you get started.
What is my Personal Web Site Address?.
Your Personal Web site address is: http://users.norwoodlight.com/accountname/
Account Name is the name of your email account. The name to
the left of the @ in your email address.
(i.e. jdoe@norwoodlight.com would have an
personal web site of http://users.norwoodlight.com/jdoe/
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How do I get started building my web site?
First you will need to create a web page using a popular software
program such as Microsoft FrontPage, Microsoft Word or any other program that can create
HTML files.
The first page you will create will be your home page. Your home
page will be the first page that appears when a user visits your website. Your home
page must be named default.html
Below are some helpful sites about creating web pages:
How do I upload my web pages to my web site?
- Go to http://mail.norwoodlight.com
- Login using your email account and password
- Click on My Web Site on the navigation bar
- Click on the Browse button and
select the html file on your hard drive.
- Click on the Upload button to upload the file to your
web site.
- Your web page is now available to the world.
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