[karaman]

hallo,

background: looking at cheap webhosting sites. it says: 1 domain unlimited sub-domains.

here's what i need to do: am applying for a job as a teacher or a driver. i have a mydomain-name.com. when applying for a driver's job i want to give prospective employer a url that will direct him to a one-page cv as a driver. will this work: www.mydomain-name.com/driver driver being the file containing my cv as a driver.
same goes for teacher,etc. i want to keep them separate as i dont want either prospective employer to know i can do more than one job.

basic problem being i dont understand what a sub-domain is let alone how it works.

some help appreciated.

karaman
the spirit never dies
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[cwwozniak]

Sub-domains would be more along the line of having URLs of:

driver.mydomain-name.com
teacher.mydomain-name.com

They would work off of your existing registered mydomain-name.com domain name and not require any further registration.

The www.mydomain-name.com/driver and www.mydomain-name.com/teacher URLs would would also work for your needs. Depending on how your hosting service has the servers configured, both driver.mydomain-name.com and www.mydomain-name.com/driver could both use the same set of files in the same location on the server.

[lordsmurf]

That's a good idea you have there.

[karaman]

hallo cwwozniak,

thanks, youve put my mind at rest at buying the cheaper starter pack and in knowing it will work.
My webpages are under construction using Bluevoda's free software - seems to be perfect for newbies like me - so it may take a couple of weeks to bring to fruition but thanks again for your help, much appreciated.

karaman
i stand by the innocent bystander
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[cwwozniak]

Hi Karaman,

You're welcome.

You do need to check with the hosting company about how you need to organize the sub-directories for your domain name in order for the sub-domains names to work. You also need to make sure you use the the correct default home page file name that your hosting company expects when visitor uses a URL for a given sub-domain that does not include a file name.

A suggestion if you want to make it less obvious that you may have multiple versions of your CV for different occupations; instead of using sub-domain names like teacher and driver, maybe use yourlastnamecv and mycurriculumvitae.

[karaman]

hallo cwwozniak,

thanks again for the input, good idea, will do.

karaman

[lordsmurf]

cv.
mycv.
resume.
myresume.

More great ideas.