Website Creation
What is my web site address?
Your homepage address will be http://www.yourbusiness.com.au/
(once approved by Ausregistry or other relevant nic).
What sort of access logging can I get?
Complete logging is available for your virtual web server. Within
your home directory there is a directory called "logs"
which has your complete access Log, as well as graphical analysis
of your hits.
How do I create my web pages?
One of the best guides is NCSA--A
Beginner's Guide to HTML. This is an excellent beginner's
guide to HTML with descriptions of many HTML tags. There are also
some excellent guides at Netscape.
Alternatively, if you do not wish to create your site yourself,
our web design team can produce a professional looking site for
you. Contact us today for details.
Can you recommend any good HTML editors I can use?
If you are not familiar with HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)
you can use an HTML editor. There are dozens of different editors
available, many of which are available from our Tucows
site.
Does CIA have cgi-bin support?
Yes we do. See our cgi-bin help page
for more information.
Does CIA have forms support?
Yes we do. See our form-mail help
page for more information.
Do you have a counter I can use?
Yes we do. Cut and paste the following into your HTML source:
<img src="http://www.cia.com.au/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=login_name.dat|dd=A|ft=2|">
Modify the login_name to your login name. You should get something
that looks like this:
You can also modify the style of the counter by choosing from
the counter style page (this
takes a while to download).
Can I have more than one counter?
You can have more than one counter, but you will need to contact
support to get it set up. If you would like more freedom over
the setup and maintenance of your counters you may wish to have
a look at www.digits.com.
How do I create client side image maps?
You need two files: a html file, and an image file.
The html file contains all your html, as well as links to the
image, and all the coordinate information:
<img SRC="image.gif" ALIGN="middle" ISMAP usemap="#MAPNAME"
WIDTH="190" HEIGHT="260"></a>
<map name="MAPNAME">
<area shape="rect" coords="20,25,84,113"
href="rectangle.html">
<area shape="polygon" coords="90,25,162,26,163,96,89,25,90,24"
href="triangle.html">
<area shape="circle" coords="130,114,29"
href="circle.html">
<area shape="rect" coords="19,156,170,211"
href="mailto:support@host1.com.au">
<area shape="default" nohref>
</map>
How do I create server side image maps?
You need three files: a html file, an image file, and a map file.
The html file contains the html, a link to the image, and a link
to the map file:
<A HREF="image.map"><IMG SRC="image.gif" ISMAP border=0></A>
The map file contains all the coordinate information:
circle circle.html 25,25 0,25
rect rectangle.html 50,0 100,50
How can I get the search engines to hit my page when anybody
does a search on certain words?
Host1 now has our own Epositioning services. Let us do the hard
work for you. Contact us today.
If you want to submit your site yourself, you can either do
this with each search engine individually, or go to sites such
as Submit-It
which let you submit to multiple search engines.
There is some useful information on how search engines work
and how to get the most out of them at Search
Engine Watch.
Custom Error 404 Messages
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The default error message:
Not Found
The requested URL /xxxxxxxx was not found on this server.
which comes up if someone types a URL incorrectly when accessing
your site is customisable. To change this, simply upload a file
called ".htaccess" (note the ".") which has the following line
in it:
ErrorDocument 404 /badurl.html
where "badurl.html" is a html file you create and upload to your
webspace.
My images are broken
Sometimes you may see that your html works, but the images will
not load. The first thing to check is the case of the files. Unix
is case-sensitive, so if your files have been uploaded in uppercase
but they are linked to in lowercase (or vice versa), they will
not work. Also make sure that your images are uploaded in "binary"
mode in your ftp client.
I get a directory listing instead of my homepage
You need to make sure you have a proper index file in your directory.
You can use index.html or index.htm as your index page.
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