Total Noob Web Question

[Flip]

After guest blogging on a couple of sites for quite sometime...I took the plunge and delved into the mystical world of my own web page...weeks and loss of hair later (hehe) I am sort of ready to launch it...however.

I only use the ntl webspace at the moment for linking images and stuff...however the url always gives my full name as in the user name ntl gave me when i signed up.

Whilst not ashamed of my name I'm sick of seeing my name in the url as in:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/neil.hu...ebackroom2.htm

How do I get rid of it?

Can i get rid of it?



Thanks in advance

Hi

afaik you can't change the 'homepage/ntlworld/username' part of the address, sorry

- have you thought about registering your own domain & using a hosting service? The deal offered by i-web solutions to members of this forum is very good value, for example.

- check it out at

http://www.i-websolutions.co.uk/nthwwhosting.html

[TheBlueRaja]

You could use www.tinyurl.com to change that into something completely different.

Then you would just give out tinyurl.com/Flip or something similar to people.

[Stuartbe]

Go with an I-web account m8... Send a PM to KingPheonix... He's a top bloke !!

[TheBlueRaja]

Eh, dont want to annoy the sponsors or nothing, but www.web-mania.com offer much more than that for a fixed 20quid a year.

500MB of disk space
6GB of data transfer per month
Frontpage extensions version 2002
Unlimited POP3 mail@yourdomain.com
Unlimited mail forwarding mail@yourdomain.com
Email is filtered for Spam and Viruses.
Unlimited subdomains of your domain name
e.g. http://subdomain.yourdomain.com/
CGI-BIN directory
Control Panel
Perl 5
PHP 4
SSI (server side includes)
MySQL Database
phpMyAdmin for MySQL management
SSH access
Full FTP access
Detailed visitor statistics
Close control downflow air conditioning units.
UPS system and Generator back-up

@20 quid a year.

[TheBlueRaja]

Compare that to I-Web,

50 Meg Storage
1 Gig Transfer
1 SUb Domain
5 Pop 3 e-mails

@24 quid a year.

Nuff said really.

[paulyoung666]

riot

[TheBlueRaja]

LOL

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by theblueraja

LOL

nowt wrong with a bit of healthy competition

Originally Posted by theblueraja

Compare that to I-Web,

50 Meg Storage
1 Gig Transfer
1 SUb Domain
5 Pop 3 e-mails

@24 quid a year.

Nuff said really.

that's the 'standard' deal, the 'special' for forum members is £10.69 per year & includes 100Mb storage & 2 Gig transfer, but no sub-domain.

Ok still not the same as the web-mania deal, which looks very competitive, but I have to say my experience of i-web has been very favourable and suits my modest needs.

[Flip]

Hey thanks for the quick replies and help guys...the tinu url was sitting in my favourites (doh!) thanks for reminding me!


As for setting up domain and host...I'm curently being bombarded with offers, but have to say the 20 quid a year looks pretty cool

I'm just testing the water at the moment and getting my head around code...which too me is like learning swahilli blindfolded with 17 thumbs...muhahahaaa!

Thankfully Coolio (see sig) has spent ages letting me run riot on his site and the Flophouse will have a similar look but with a blog attached...old journos never stop writing crap to anyone who'll read it!

Thanks again and make sure you pop over to Coolios and The Flophouse (when it's open hehe!)

Cheers

[Halcyon]

Another thing I'd reccomend is signing up for a free address at www.dot.tk so your address would be for example:
www.whateveryouwanthere.tk

That is the address you can give uot to people and then it redirects to your ntl website.
Simple and free.

[50420]

hi flip....
you can change your homepage address to avoid having your name in the url....did it myself

will take a call to tech support though

firstly...you'll need to create an email address...with a username that u'd like to have in the homepage url

give tech support a call...they may even create the email for u ..while your on the call... the agent will then need to remove your webspace from sabs and create new webspace.... but the url is limited in that it can only contain a valid username from your own sabs account (...as far as am aware...have been off for a while)...hence the creation of the new email address.

if u've uploaded anything to your existing ntl webspace.... it'll be gone when removed from sabs...so will need to upload any existing pages to the new homepage url

....hope that makes some kinda sense

[SMHarman]

There was a tech on .com I think that did this for me, it can be done.

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by theblueraja

Compare that to I-Web,

50 Meg Storage
1 Gig Transfer
1 SUb Domain
5 Pop 3 e-mails

@24 quid a year.

Nuff said really.

I wouldn't personally host with someone who has a box sitting at what looks like Easynet. After having a leased line through them a few years back I'd rather die in a horrific chemical fire than ever deal with them again.