FAQ's

A domain name is also called a Web address. A domain name is used as an address for your Web site and e-mail, just like www.janesbagels.com and orders@janesbagels.com.

Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data that can be transferred in a given time, usually measured in seconds. It determines how much data can flow through your site.

E-mail is short for electronic mail. It consists of messages, often just text, sent from one user to another via a network.

This refers to an electronic mailing address to which e-mail may be sent and received.

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) allows you to upload files to your Web site from your computer. It's a necessity if you're using FrontPage or another Web site design software package to build and/or update your Web site. If you're using an online Web site design template provided by Network Solutions, you probably don't need FTP capability.

File Transfer Protocol is the method of transferring files between two computers and a method of gaining access to files stored in a remote computer.

Multi-User FTP gives you the ability to assign permissions to someone else to FTP pages to your site or you can even restrict it to a specific directory.

Also referred to as a Web page, the home page is the starting point of a Web presence. It is a sort of table of contents for everything that is on the Web site, offering direct links to the different parts of the site.

A programming language used to build Web sites; it defines how the Web pages will look and how the visitor will be able to move around the Web site. It used to be that you had to know HTML to design and build a Web site. But today there are online templates and tools, as well as software packages, which allow you to build a Web site without knowing HTML.

The actual words and terms that customers are using to search the Internet for products and services similar to yours.

Optimizing refers to making a Web site search-engine-friendly so it ranks as high as possible on search engine results listings. Also called Search Engine Optimization (SEO), optimizing includes finding relevant keywords to describe your products and services; writing Web site content in a specific way that includes these keywords; analyzing your Web site for technical and design problems that may keep search engines from seeing the entire Web site; and submitting your Web site to search engines and directories. SEO is a very specialized field and usually requires the assistance of an SEO expert to achieve optimal rankings.

A tool allowing users to search for information on the Internet using key words and phrases. Search engines explore the Internet and return a list of Web pages that are related to the key words or phrases entered. Popular search engines include Google®, Alta Vista®, Ask Jeeves®, Excite, Hotbot, Lycos® and Yahoo!®. Search engines are also a tool to market your Web site to potential visitors (see 'Search Engine Marketing' and 'Search Engine Optimization' for more)

Use search engines to let people know about your site and drive traffic to your site. When a person searches on a term that is related to your Web site, a brief description of your site with a link to it will appear in their search results. There are a number of different ways to approach Search Engine Marketing.

You can also pay to be listed on search results (in a different area from natural, non-paid search results) when a key word you designate is searched on. This is called 'paid placement' or 'paid search results.' Yahoo!® Sponsored Search and Google AdWords™ are two programs that allow you to pay for placement.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) makes your site more appealing to search engines and gives them a better understanding of who they should send to your site. Optimizing your Web site should result in a high placement in 'natural search results,' or in the area where companies aren't paying to be listed.

This includes the submission of your Web site to search engines and a complete analysis of your site, identifying improvement on your Web site that can help your Web site get indexed by search engines more successfully.

In the context of a Web site, a template is a Web page that has been pre-formatted for your use, allowing you to build your own Web site quickly and affordably. The template provides a basic structure for the Web page: for example, a template might place navigation elements across the top of the page, provide a space for a graphic or logo in the upper left-hand corner, etc. Many of the template?s elements can easily be customized. For example, you can change the background color of the page, insert a graphic or logo of your choosing, change text colors and/or fonts, and more.

Web hosting is an online storage service for information, images, video, or any content accessible through the Web.

Network Solutions' Web hosting packages are designed for the advanced needs of a technical user who wants to maintain one or more Web sites. All of our packages include generous amounts of disk storage and data transfer, FTP accounts, e-mailboxes, sub-domains and directory pointers, domain name (with annual agreement), secure hosting with 99.9% uptime, scripting and database functionality, site traffic reports, and your choice of Unix or Windows platform.

Web Mail allows you to access your e-mail account from anywhere using a Web browser. You should use Web Mail when you cannot access the computer that you have set up with POP access.

A Web page is a document created with HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) that is part of a group of hypertext documents or resources available on the World Wide Web. Collectively, these documents and resources form what is known as a Web site. Web pages can contain hypertext links to other places within the same document, to other documents at the same Web site, or to documents at other Web sites. They can also contain fill-in forms, photos, large clickable images, sounds, and videos for downloading.

A Web site is a collection of HTML documents or Web pages, that are linked together and that exist on the Web at a particular server. Exploring a Web site usually begins with the home page, which may lead you to more information about that site. A single server may support multiple Web sites.