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WHAT IS A WEB ADDRESS? A URL? A DOMAIN NAME?
URL stands for Universal Resource Locator. Put simply, it is a Web site address, also called a domain name. For example, this site's domain name is www.firewebsitehosting.com

WHY DO I NEED A DOMAIN NAME OR SUBDOMAIN?
Your Web site will be located on the World Wide Web (WWW) for the public to access via the Internet. Every Web site requires an address. A domain or subdomain is the address to your Web site. Users type the address in the location of their browser to get to your site. As part of our design packages, we will promote and market your address so your customers find out about it.

HOW DO I REGISTER A DOMAIN NAME?
Domain names ending with .com, .net or .org can be registered through many different companies known as "registrars". You can also register your domain name with Fire Website Hosting & Design at a very low annual cost, but if you would rather use another regestar an alphabetical listing of these other companies appears in the InterNIC Registrar Directory. If you are uncomfortable doing this yourself, we will establish the initial order and supplying the technical information Internic needs for free only charging the cost of the domain registration.

WHAT IF I ALREADY HAVE A DOMAIN NAME REGISTERED?
If you have already registered a domain name and want to host your Web site with Fire Website Hosting & Design, the domain will need to be transferred to our servers. We can help you do this or we can provide the necessary information to redirect the URL to our servers.

WILL MY SITE BE REGISTERED WITH SEARCH ENGINES?
Upon launching your site to the Web, we will register the site with the top search engines and directories, but this does not guarantee top search engine ranking.

WHAT IS WEB SITE HOSTING?
WEB SITE Hosting is the term used to describe the storage and access of a site to the Internet. The Internet is a federation of host computers that are interconnected and able to "speak" with one another Fire Website Hosting& Design hosts all Web sites on our virtual servers. This means that when someone types in your URL or accesses your site through any search engine, they will be communicating with our servers. Our servers will house the Web site and pull it up upon command.

WHAT TYPE OF REPORTING DO YOU OFFER?
There are several ways to measure Web site activity to help quantify some type of return on your Internet investment. Most of our Web site design packages include a free stats page detailed Web statistics are available to track data of your Web site's activity including the number of hits by day, week, month, and time of day, country of origin, visitor system information and visitor referral information (how people found you). [sample stats] All Web statistics are updated daily.

WILL I HAVE FTP ACCESS TO MY SITE?
When you order a hosting account with Fire Website Hosting & Design you will be e-mailed a Welcome Letter with all the information needed for FTP access. If you plan on maintaining your own site, FTP access will be made available. Please contact Technical Support if you need more information on FTP access.

CAN I USE MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE TO CREATE MY OWN WEB SITE?
Fire website hosting & Design has servers available with MS FrontPage extensions.