BT Yahoo part 2

[sirius]

We switched to BT yahoo here at home, because my dad can no longer afford to rent office space and is having to work from home.

Ive kissed my lovely reliable and solid "BT Classic" broadband goodbye and had to get BT Yahoo option 3 which was the closest equivelant as it got us a free wireless router/modem and webspace which my other account never had. The webspac is intended to be for my dads company webpage.

At work, he is on Dialup with BT untill he switches fully to work from home.

On his dialup account, he was allocated webspace, and me and my brother made him a website and uploaded it via FTP to his dialup account. He registered a domain name, such as xxx.design4u.co.uk, and this redirected to xxx.design4u.btinternet.co.uk automatically. He also has another registered domain that uses his first one to redirect.

His email is linked, say its info@design4u.co.uk, - thats his email address that all his customers know, and hundreds of letterheads and business cards have on them. He opens the mails on outlook xpress using his BT account. When he snds mail, it says from owner@design4u.co.uk or whatever, not btinternetyahoo or whatever.....

Now though, on Broadband Yahoo we are supposed to have webspace for a website with this account........but Im now praying to god that it doesnt mean a free bloody "Yahoo" web page. He wont want one of those, with banners and yahoo crap allover it, and he cant b affording to change his well established web address or email contact details.

Can sombody explain this to me, whats going on, whats needed to do? How to transfer the website from the dialup account to the nw Yahoo BT thing? Is it bad news? will he loose his clean website and email addresses?. Whats going on? lol.

Cheers

Sirius.

 

[johns_ar]

Dont quote me on this but im pretty sure that the "webspace" with BT Yahoo is simply a yahoo briefcase (with xx mb of storage) that you would access via his yahoo profile. Fucking useless so you'll probs have to set up a proper hosting account.

And to get rid of the stuff like BT Yahoo communicator just unistall it from add/remove programs and its defo in the startup tab in MSCONFIG because Ive binned it off there before.

 

[sirius]

I have been looking for hours on this, its a total nonsense to me, i cant gt my head round it. Im not into webspace and how it all works.

It seems we get webspace and this yahoo webspace where it will be like a yahoo website with www.yahoo.co.uk/mywebsite or whatever on it, and loads of adverts.

However, I think there is also normal webspace to host a site.

comment regarding the 15 megs of webspace is slightly wrong. Customers will be advertised 15mb of Yahoo Geocities space complete with sh*tloads of pop-up adverts (use your pop up stopper to block these) and customers will ALSO be able to get 20mb of webspace on the BT server i.e. both. However, we've been specifically breifed NOT to tell the customers this. However, please don't ask us to merge the two as it's a physical imposibility. You could use one as a mirror site to the other, if you feel frisky. Or brave

Its a total 'mare.

Looking around the BT crap thats come with this connection, I cant find anywhere what the scoop is, or any means to upload or change webpages. The staff on the phonenumbers didnt really grasp what I wanted, as I dont know how to explain it! :S

Heres what happened from scratch.

1) My dad got BT openworld dial up 56k.

2) He registered a domain name, such as www.design4u.co.uk and www.cadmachine.co.uk

3) Me and my brother made a website in Frontpage, my brother did the programming and I did the layout and graphics, photo's etc.

4) We logged into BT Openworld and uploaded via BT's FTP server for our details.

5) Somehow (I dont know how, who or why) People type in www.design4u.co.uk in google or whatever and it loads www.design4u.btinternet.co.uk . Type www.cadmachine.co.uk and you get to www.design4u.btinternet.co.uk too.

6) His email, people type info@design4u.co.uk and he gets his email by logging onto his internet dial up and opening outlook express, where his mail server is mail.btinternet.co.uk or whatever.

7) We got this BT Yahoo broadband.

8) We need to continue as before nothing changed except for connection speed. This means shifting the web to the new BT space (???), and making sure the urls go to the site and redirect (???) and that the email service still works.


I'm totally lost as to how all this works. . I dont even know how to describe it on the calls to India or wherever they base now.

Whats the craic here with this lot then? :$


eternal thanks

Sirius.

 

[johns_ar]

Retroandys work used BT for their hosting i seem to remember and for a bit it had the btinternet suffix in the address until it got moved over....i think

If not mate just get some cheap webhosting from somewhere, im with fhosts who do this place or loads of other places do it as well. Theyll take care of transferring domains and all youll do is save the site contents via ftp from where it is now and re-upload it.