lc63

I am a beginner. I created a website using Contribute software by Macromedia. All I want is to get connected.
1) I don't know my server. I read in the forum to type a command, telnet ipaddress 25, but type it where?

2) Also, to connect my website using Contribute's Connection Assistant, I need the network path of the web server. How do I find that?

3) What's the email address for my site? (mail.yourdomain.com isn't complete).

I would appreciate any help. I'm confused and I'm just beginning. The welcome instructions aren't clear on how to operate in the cpanel.

Very Sincerely,
lc63

sacjeanie

LC, I went through this a few weeks ago. 1) The easiest way for me to find the server was to go to this link: http://www.afterbeing.com/tutorials/serverdetect.php and enter either you IP address or your URL.

2) I'm not familiar with Contribute, but it can't be much different from Dreamweaver. When setting up your FTP connection, your URL is sample.com (don't add the www). Your folder that you store documents is: /public_html/. Your user name is the administrator name and password you received from Surpass.

3) I found my email was mydomain.com/webmail. It took me weeks to find it there. Usually I went into the CPanel and read the mail through there.

Good luck to you.

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benjamin

Just a quick note on Contribute. It is in fact similar to Dreamweaver in terms of setup but is extremely scaled down. Things are much simpler to use (no HTML knowledge required) but of course the program isn't nearly as powerful. It's great from a developer's standpoint because it allows you to control exactly what different users can do and even those with no dev experience can post things... (And the code generated by Contribute is fairly clean.)

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sacjeanie

I know our College ITC's love Contribute because they can define the format, look and behaviors of the pages. The professors can just go in and add content. I understand it's pretty involved to set up on the administrator side. I'm still trying to sell the product for the web areas I support.

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benjamin

Funny. I am actually considering using it for a university client for much the same reasons you enumerated. There are other options but Contribute is definitely great: easy to manage and set up, fairly flexible and relatively inexpensive...

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lc63

Thanks so much, Sacjeanie. You helped me a lot. I'm still unsure about how I create my email (because I want to create a link to it on my site). The welcome email indicates.....
4. Email accounts can be created in cPanel in the Mail Manager.
The incoming and outgoing mailservers will always be: mail.yourdomain.com
The complete email address should have the and something before it, like info or sales, so how do I personalize my email address to be: infomail.yourdomain.com?

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks,
lc63

sacjeanie

Yeah, the alternative is how I have to do things. I have multiple include files and some include files are dependent upon where in the organization you are. It gets a little interesting. I strongly feel Contribute would make the whole thing more useable. We have departments that are not embracing computer technology. This is the software for them.

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David

That part is explaining what you need to put into any program you use for email. If you decided to use Outlook, you would need the mail.yourdomain.com part to put into Outlook.

Look in CPanel, and there should be a section called Mail. Under it is a place to add email accounts. That's where you can do the personalized mail which would be youyourdomain.com.

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sacjeanie

LC, I'm just setting up one now.

1)Log into CPanel
2)Choose the mail icon
3)Choose Manage/Add/Remove Accounts
4)Choose the "Add Account" at the bottom of the screen.
5)Fill in the fields and viola'

Easy Peasy.

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