http://www.universal-webnames.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 09 May 2007 10:16:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, you've taken the first big step into the world of the web and you've got yourself an Internet identity - you have bought your own domain name! And the first thing you probably want to do is use your domain name for email. That means TWO different things: You need to ... http://www.universal-webnames.com/archives/5 If you visit a web site you will notice the address of the page you are viewing will look something like this: http://www.somesite.com/index.htm In this example the domain name is somesite.com. That's the bit that can be acquired and owned (The bit before the domain - "http://www." - is called the ... http://www.universal-webnames.com/archives/4 What is a domain name? Wherever you look these days you can see the ubiquitous www sign, as in: www.something-or-other.com It's there on the TV, on the sides of vans, in the newspaper...everywhere. Then there's the "@" symbol in email addresses, as in: sales@something-or-other.com In these two examples we have different prefixes - "www." and ... http://www.universal-webnames.com/archives/3 Do you own or run a small to medium sized business? If so you will probably want to make some use of the Internet. At the simplest level you will probably want to add email to your existing methods of communicating with customers and suppliers. But then again you could ... http://www.universal-webnames.com/archives/1