Every Customer that connects to YouBetNet for Internet Access and uses Email through YouBetNet has a personal website.

The Link to your personal website is:

For youbetnet.com users: ~http://www.youbetnet.com/~yourusername
For youbetnet.net users: ~http://www.youbetnet.net/~yourusername
(Insert Your Username in the yourusername area)

Uploading Pages and Information to your Personal Website

To create pages and upload them to your personal website, you will need to programs. One to create pages and one to Upload them to make them viewable by others.

There are many programs on the internet to create, edit and manage web pages. Many can be found at www.download.com. Some are free and some require a small registration fee.

When designed your website, there are a few simple things to remember.
1. Don't add to many pictures to a single page. Remember, the more pictures on a pages means it will load slower. The personal viewing it might get frustrated and simply leave without viewing it.
2. When uploading your website, The default page is always index.html. The reason for this is so the person viewing it doesn't have to type in ~www.youbetnet.net/~username/page1.html. The webserver knows that if there is a index.html in that directory, this page is the default home page. So the person can type in ~www.youbetnet.net/~username/ and your page will pop up.

Once you have designed your personal site, you now have to upload it to your personal website. Any standard ftp client will work. We recommend using "WS_Ftple." It's a very simple program for downloading and uploading via ftp. You can download it here.

Configuring your Ftp Client to upload pages to your personal website

There are a few things to you have to know to upload your pages.
1: hostname of server. In this case the host name will be either www.youbetnet.net or www.youbetnet.com. Depending on your email address at either youbetnet.net or youbetnet.com..
2: Username and Password. Your email username and your email password. This is usually your dialup username and password.
3: The upload directory. In this case, the upload directory is always "web/"