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Your own Domain and Website – Part 5

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Create a Website Using Google SitesThis is part 5 of the process of creating you own Domain and Website so that you can you own free email and website, that is completely legitimate.

So far we have, found a domain, created it on ZoneEdit, applied for the domain registrar to register the domain name, and setup ZoneEdit to get ready for the Web and Email forwarding.

Check All is in Place

Before you continue with Part 5, it takes about 24hrs for the domain or DNS propagation to occur. You need check that all the previous parts work. So if the propagation has worked:

First check the website forward is working. In this case we have a site on google site called onecoolname, if you type in www.onecoolname.co.za, it should take you automatically to sites.google.com/site/onecoolname.

Then from another email account, send an email to the email address you forwarded to (in this case joe@onecoolname.co.za) and if it gets to the Gmail address then you are ready to continue.

Setting Google Sites to point to your registered domain

To set your site to always use the domain you have registered you need to tell Google Sites that there is a domain registered and that it is pointing to that site. The process below is how to do this with google sites, blog sites and other sites have a similar process.

Here is the process:
  1. Go to your google site, or if you are logged into Gmail already on the top right hand corner click more v then Sites, this will take you to a summary of sites you have linked to your Gmail account, if you used a different account to setup the site, then you need to go and give rights to the Gmail you have registered, or login using those account detail. Either case here is the link
  2. Under the heading MySites select the site you want the domain to forward to, this will then load the site
  3. Click [More Actions] then [Manage This Site]
  4. This will display the Management interface, under Site Settings click [Web Address]
  5. This will display a page listing Web addresses for the site. Under Add a web address there is a user entry box, next to the [Add] button, add the domain name you require (in our case www.onecoolname.co.za).
And that is it.

Setting your Gmail to work with your registered domain

Now you want your email joe@onecoolname.co.za to be the one that Gmail send your email out as, so you need to change you Gmail settings.

Here is the process
  1. Login into you Gmail, If you are not already, then click Settings
  2. This will display you Gmail settings page. Click on the [Accounts and Import ] Tab.
  3. Under the Send mail as section, click [Send mail from another address]
  4. This displays a pop up wind that asks you for a descriptive name (which will default to the name you used for your Gmail) and then there is an email address. Add in the mail forwarding email address in our example joe@onecoolname.co.za, then click [Next Step]
  5. Leave Send through Gmail (easier to set up) selected and click [Next Step]
  6. Click [Send Verification]
  7. Leaving the Verificaiton Window open go back to your Gmail, and wait for the email to arrive in your Gmail account, it takes less than 5 minutes (if it does not then you either have not complete the Mail forward step in Step 4 below, or you entered the wrong email address.)
  8. Once the email has come through copy the verification number from that email (it is the number in the second line that comes after Confirmation code:), then reopen the verification window and paste the number (delete spaces if copied), then click [Verify]
  9. This will close the Verification window if the verification number is correct.
  10. Now go back to Settings -> Accounts and Import, and you will see your email address is not there, if it is not the verification process has failed.
  11. Next to the email address you want to be your email address click make default.
And that is it.

I may be worth looking at the other settings, especially the POP settings, since if you have another email address then Gmail will collect the email from that address and put it in this email box.

If you are using Outlook or something else to read your email then Go to the [Forwarding and POP/IMAP] and follow the process listed under POP Download:
3. Configure your email client (e.g. Outlook, Eudora, Netscape Mail) Configuration instructions
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