I have acquired a domain name. I can get assistance on building a web page. But I do not understand how to get me web page "into" my domain. Also, I do not understand how if I (hopefully) can get information into my domain how can others not do so but only look. Apologies if this is phrased technically inaccurately but I would appreciate anyone's help.

Most sites that offer pages all people to use and ftp program to upload their pages. Without knowing where your site is located, I can't be more specific.

Sorry about the screwed up typing. That should read "offer pages that allow..."

Steve is right. most sites that offer free web space, like GeoCities, Tripod, Angelfire, etc. have online "site maintenance" tools that allow you to upload your HTML files and images. often, you can construct your pages entirely on the web server itself so there is no need to transfer any files. this is great for beginners, but once you get the hang of it, an FTP program is really the way to go. if you can imagine the web server is your computer, then your domain would be just like the root folder (C:\) on your hard drive. any other directories you create in your domain are just sub-directories (folders) of that domain. in other words, a URL is just like a PATH in the Windows environment; in order to get to a file in Windows, we use Explorer to "Browse" through the levels of folders until we find the one we want, for example: C:\documents\index.html. in order to see index.html, we must open the C:\ drive (root directory), then open the My Documents folder, and finally locate index.html within that folder. a web site is the same thing. going back to our example: http://www.mydomain.com/documents/index.html <----Root Directory---><-SubDir-><--File---> the reason you are able to "get into" your domain and others can only look at the content is because you have a password for your account. the server will not let you into your root directory without the password. wow, that's alot of stuff!! there's alot more, but these are some basic ideas to get you started. i know it can be confusing at first, but with time you'll get the hang of it. then watch out 'cause you may get hooked!

If you have obtained a domain name through an ISP you should be able to get all the info you need from them also. I just got one of those free pages. And I wanted to upload some stuff I was disappointed that I couldn't make any subdirectories.... had to upload 1 file at a time with Netscape. FTP would be way better. It's free though.

hey Herring, you may want to try out WS_FTP. it's free for personal use and is way better than using a browser to upload files to a web server.