Building Your Website on HealthyPlace.com

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Welcome to HealthyPlace.com's site building center.

From your application, we are assuming that you already have a good understanding of how to build a website and that you are using your own html editor. If you need help with any aspect of site development and marketing your website, please feel free to contact us. We want to help you make your site the best it can be.

PLEASE READ EVERYTHING BELOW THIS.

Files & Passwords

Files: When your application was approved, we sent you an html file. That file contained the template you will use for your website.

Passwords: We will send you an ftp username and password. We will also set up a HealthyPlace.com email account and assign a username and password.

You can access your email at HealthyPlace.com directly from the web:

http://mail.healthyplace.com

or by using your own email client. Here are the settings:

POP Account: yourname@healthyplace.com
Default Domain: mail.healthyplace.com
Return Address: yourname@healthyplace.com
SMTP: mail.healthyplace.com

File Transfer

We use ftp to transfer files and images. If you need an ftp client, you can download this one for free.

Once your ftp client is open, click the "general" tab on top and the "new" button on the right. Here's what you need to fill in.

Profile Name=HealthyPlace.
Host Name/Address=ftp.healthyplace.com
Host Type=select "automatic detect"
User ID & Password we will email you.
Account & Comment- leave blank
Click "save password" box

After everything is filled in, click the "okay" button at the bottom.

In ftp, the files on the left side are the one's on your computer hard drive. The one's on the right, are the files already on the HealthyPlace.com website.

The "arrow" buttons in the middle indicate which way you want to transfer the file(s) that you have highlighted.

If you open your ftp client while working, make sure you hit the "refresh" button on the left side to update the ftp client before transferring your files.

For security reasons, if your ftp client is open and unused for more than 10 minutes, the link will automatically close down. You will then have to close down and reopen the program and connect again.

Each site at HealthyPlace.com has it's own folder. You will get the name of the folder via email. You will put all htm, html files inside that folder. Also inside that folder is another folder labelled "images" for you to put all your "images" in. You must do it this way so that all the template links work.

Templates

HealthyPlace.com is designed so that visitors can easily navigate throughout each specific community and the HealthyPlace.com website. There are common elements on each page of the community that must remain and are already included in your page template. These cannot be removed or tampered with:

page background image
community banner (top of page)
community navigation button (top-left on page)
in the "links column" at the bottom of your links, "send this page to a friend" and "back to ___ community homepage.
all HealthyPlace.com sponsor buttons, banners, and links.
the coding at the bottom of the page, inside the "msinclude" tag for the HealthyPlace.com navigation links.

Your site links should go along the left side of the page in the column underneath the community navigation button. They must be in "H5" heading, with "arial" typeface. Each site within a community has been assigned a link color code which is already included in your template.

Your content begins underneath the community banner.

Any links off the site, must be "target=new," so that a new browser window opens when you click on the link.

Remember, in accordance with your HealthyPlace.com partner agreement and the HealthyPlace.com Terms of Use, displaying any kind of commercial sponsorship or ad banner, including those that are generated by banner or link exchange services, that is not sponsored by HealthyPlace.com is prohibited.

Updating Your Site - VERY IMPORTANT!

We have two servers, one for development, the other is the main server.

When you ftp your pages over to HealthyPlace.com, they are going onto the development server. To view your pages as you are working on them, go to:

http://dev.healthyplace.com/communities/the rest of your link

When you are ready to update your site to the main server, send an email to: dev@healthyplace.com. In the subject header, put the words "site update". In the body of your email, put the link to your homepage. From there, we will update your pages to the main server.

Site Building Suggestions

Make your pages easy to read.
Make your pages a reasonable length (not overly long).
Keep the number of images on each page to a minimum and make sure each image is no larger than 10 mb. This ensures that your pages will be fast-loading.
Make sure you use the "title" tag and meta-tags at the top of each page.
Make sure you submit each page if allowed, or your index page (first page of your site) to the major search engines.

Buttons-Banners

If you have a site or personal homepage outside of HealthyPlace.com, we have some banners and buttons you can use to promote your HealthyPlace.com site.

Please remember, if you need assistance with anything, all of us on the partner team are ready to help in anyway we can. Just email us at: partner@healthyplace.com

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