Hi i hate posting questions on my first post but im in dire need of you assistance. now i have bought a domain name and hosting and i have logged in my FTP program already and i have a temp. template i am going to use for now until i make my own. i dont know what to create in my directories to make the template work, i have the index.html and the images folder from what i can remember you need to define your images to the index.html i uploaded it to my FTP program and nothing came up on the website. so if you guys can help out it would be awesome this is the website http://www.promoves.ca/

and thats all it shows i dont get it?

heres a screenshot of my directory listing untouched

Is your domain name linked to your account or 'pointing' to your website?

i belive so , i mean i called them and got a domain transfer to my hosting and they gave me a password and IP and login. or am i supposed to tell them to point my domain somewhere now? im very lost

Well usually when you login to your hosting, you can edit your domain name settings, you need it to point to the IP Address of your website.

ok now i think i remember what you are saying, now after i have done that is there anything specific i should know about the name of the files on the FTP account, like the root folder? and how to point the images to the Index.hmtl

no, it should just point directly to your websites IP no specific folder, it may take a while to actually point to it, but thats all, nothing else should need to be done.

Make sure you name your home page index.html instead of welcome.html. The browser (firefox, IE) looks for this page.

You don't point your domain to the IP of your host. You should first put an addon domain in your host then point your domain to your host's nameservers.

The browser (firefox, IE) looks for this page

Nope, the server looks for the page to serve out to a browser.

Originally Posted by Lukero

You don't point your domain to the IP of your host. You should first put an addon domain in your host then point your domain to your host's nameservers.

Nope.

The nameservers point the domain name to the IP of the web server the site is hosted on.

thank you for the help guys, now im still a little confused i went to the Go daddy Hosting Control Center and im pretty lost on what to click on to point my website to this IP or what to configure to make it work i guess there is just too many options. is anyone familiar with their Control Center

anyone? i really need to figure this out and i dont wanna call go daddy it cost too much money please can anyone help