All Dial-Up and DSL accounts come with a free personal web site with 25MB of web space. Your web site is automatically configured when you sign up. You just need to upload the pages to this site. 

Building Your Web Site

The first step in creating a web site is building the web pages you want people to see. Web pages are written in a language called HTML. Here are a few sites which will help you get started in creating web pages using HTML. 

	About.com: Build a Website
	Webmonkey: HTML Basics
	A Beginners Guide to HTML

The good news is, you don't need to be an HTML programmer to build a web page. There are programs called Web Editors which makes building web pages much easier. Here are some Web Editors you can use: 

	Tucows: Web Editors for Windows
	Tucows: Web Editors for Macintosh

Transferring Your Web Pages to the Internet

After your web pages are created, you will need to transfer them to your web space on our server. You will need an FTP program to do this. Here is a list of some of the most common FTP programs available. The setup information is found in the table below. 

	WS_FTP: 30 Day Trial
	Smart FTP
	Tucows: FTP Programs for Windows
	Fetch: For Macintosh Computers

FTP Server
FTP stands for "File Transfer Protocol". This server is used to host your website included with our dial-up and DSL services.

Username/Password
Use your TCQ login name and password when transferring files to your web space. 

Web Site Address
This is the address others will use to view your web site using a web browser. It will be http://members.tcq.net/ followed by your TCQ username.

Default Document
When your website address is entered, our web server will load the default page. It first looks for a file named index.html. If it does not find it, it will then look for index.htm, then default.htm. Your initial page needs to have one of these filenames. Other pages can be named whatever you wish.