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Your site is going to experience a downtime while your DNS
record is being changed and propagated through the world's
WHOIS
servers. It will take about 24-72 hours for the process to
be
completed.
Maintain any existing services set up on your old domain
name
such as email forwarding, web pointing and website hosting
until
the transfer is complete to ensure continuity of your
service.
You can check the progress of your domain name transfer by
using
a Domain Name Search facility such as Whois.net. You
should see
the details change from your previous Host to your New
Host when
the transfer is complete.
4. Upload all files to your new
Web Host.
When you are sure your domain name has been transferred,
upload
the files to your new Web Host.
Dreamweaver – define your site first, and then use the
PUT
command to transfer all your files and html pages. This
will
ensure that your whole web will remain intact with the
transfer.
FrontPage – create a new Web from the site files you
have
imported from your old host, then publish them to the new
host.
Make sure your new host has Front Page extensions
installed.
This process will transfer your complete site to your new
Host.
5. Transferring web pages to the
New Host.
Dreamweaver or FrontPage editors make it very easy to
transfer
html web pages. They keep most, if not all your web site
intact
for the transfer (as explained above).
Another way to transfer your web pages is to copy the
source
code by right clicking on the page as you see it when you
visit
the site and select 'view/source'. It will come up on
Notepad.
Select 'file/save as' and save to a place of your choice
as an
HTML file. To do this, at the bottom of the box just
before you
save it, it will say '.txt'. Change the drop menu to 'all
files'
and then change the '.txt' at the end of the name you're
saving
it as to '.html', then save it. You will then have a
complete
page ready to load to wherever you want. If you have
images
though, you'll have to save them separately.
6. Amending your web site.
Sometimes your web site may not look exactly the same as
on
your last Web Host. This is because the html code and/or
files
did not completely transfer. This may happen more often
with
the editors. FrontPage will do this more because it uses
FrontPage
extensions for publishing (extra files for easy
publishing).
Make the necessary design changes to mirror the site you
had
previously hosted. You may have to eliminate or add some
code to
completely reflect your original site.
7. Testing your web site.
Once the domain name and your web site files have been
transferred,
you should test that all services are working on the your
new Host
(i.e. email services, etc). If it’s working correctly,
go ahead and cancel
all your remaining services with your previous hosting
service.
Transferring your web site to a new Host doesn’t have to
be such
a nerve-racking task, once you know the exact steps to
take. Now
you can enjoy the savings and services of a new home for
your
web site.
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Herman Drost is a Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW)
owner and author of iSiteBuild.com
Web Site Design and Low Cost Hosting
(http://www.isitebuild.com)
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