Old Dog Can Learn New Tricks

For those of you who read of my dilemma yesterday this is an update, for the rest, this is the story of being a quick study in finding web hosting, ftp uploads, securing a domain name, and getting your website back up in 24 hours or less!To bring you up to speed our techie owned and was hosting our school site on an external server, for what ever reason the hosting company shut him down and we were left with our school site down and domain name held hostage.  My adventure today was to find a host, purchase a new domain, upload our site and make it all happen like yesterday.I purchased a domain from godaddy.com, got hosting from inmotionhosting.com and have spent the better part of the evening trying to get them to talk to each other and work.  I have been able to upload my files to the host site through filezilla (mac users ftp = free)  and I can see them there. However, I can’t get the files to show public via the url.  I know its a simple fix, that I have just missed a “little” step somewhere. In fact its probably just a matter of changing the index.html location.  But it is 11 PM and I am too tired to continue working on the site, I will do better in the morning, I hope.This has been a crash course for me since the technical end of things really aren’t my gig.   I do design and know my way around dreamweaver and some html basics, but when it come to the technical hosting and servers, I’m like a deer in the headlights.  That was until today when I was baptized by fire. Everyday in education is an education.