How does the post office find your house, to deliver you mail? They can do it because you have an address. The internet works the same way. Every website has a unique address. Whereas your home's address is something like: 111 Main Street, addresses on the web are much less interesting. An internet address consists of four numbers, seperated by periods, such as: 111.222.333.444 Every website on the web has an address like this. Actually, to be completely accurate, internet addresses point at the server, on which a website resides. There are times, and TalkSpot is one of them, when multiple websites reside on the same server. Think of this particular address as pointing at an apartment building. Most of us find numbers hard to remember, so the internet does something very convenient. There are servers, scattered around the internet, that associate names with addresses. For instance, our talkspot website has the name (called a domain name) of http://www.talkspot.com/, and the server it is on has the address 206.196.19.86
A domain name is the last two parts of a website address. For instance, in http://www.talkspot.com/, the domain name is: talkspot.com.
A website address is different from an IP address (which is the four numbers we discussed previously). When someone refers to a website address, the are usually referring to the full name used to access a website via the browser, such as http://www.talkspot.com/.
A URL (Universal Resource Locator) is the full name used to access something on the web, such as a webpage, a website, a picture, a song, etc. For instance http://www.talkspot.com/aspx/blob2/templates/footer/images/PoweredByTalkspot.png
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By securing a domain name and taking advantage of TalkSpot's tools, you can promote your site to the fullest!
Yes you can and no you won’t! You can use an existing name and swap it to your TalkSpot system. However, this will involve a manual process. Aside from the initial fee for establishing your upgraded membership, you will not incur any additional charges for a single instance of a domain name swap, per site. To make the change, you will need to set your DNS servers to:
You may need to contact the company that you originally purchased the domain name from to learn how to do this. The process is different for each company. Once you have made the change on your end, send an email to admin@talkspot.com with the domain name, and within 24 to 48 hours, your change will have been made. Make sure to include the name of your existing TalkSpot site. For more information check out:
Yes! To do so, email admin@talkspot.com
Once you signed in, you should have noticed a bar that looks like this picture appear at the top of your webpage. This is the Administrator Tool Bar. It only appears for you. Visitors to your site do not see it.
Each of these squares represents a webpage template (the layout of a webpage). They are, in essence: variety. Each one is a little different and will allow you some variety in how your various pages are laid out, while still maintaining a consistent coloring and style. You will also notice each page type is labeled. The labels are just suggestions as to the kinds of web pages you can add to your website. In actuality, you can use the page templates for anything.
Now, you will have added a brand new page to your website!
There is no single or simple answer to this question, other than, "Whatever you want!" Imagine you're standing in a stationary store, looking at the rows of folders, binders, clipboards, and so on. You can choose any one of these items and fill them with anything you'd like. How would you like to proceed? A website is little more than a collection of your "stuff". It can be anything from an online portfolio of your art, containing images, a resume, a work history and so on, or a collection of information and promotional materials about your business. It can be something as seemingly silly as charting the progress of your puppy's growth, to share with friends or as meaningful as the charting of your family's genealogy spanning years and generations. Generally, it's about one thing. It's a topic of some kind and all the information, images, sounds and motion are dedicated to this one topic. Pick something and start writing about it! Then, add an image of some kind to support your words. Then, add some more words! As your add things, you will absorb a little information. You can look around at other websites, similar to your own, to help you hone in on your goals. Ideally, you want to create a website that is not only informative and compelling, but is also a topic which is likely to grow and generate more information. It's like a scrapbook. It's never complete, but also gaining material, morphing and changing shape!
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