How to Customize Your Subdomain on Bluehost

Organize website content by creating subdomains.

If you plan on hosting a large website, you should divide website content into subdomains in order to organize web content by category. For example, if you run an online news website, you may organize your news stories by creating subdomains for world news, local news, sports, entertainment and finance. Create subdomains easily with Bluehost, through the Bluehost control panel.

Things You'll Need

• Bluehost web hosting account

Instructions

1. Visit the Bluehost homepage. Click on the "Control Panel Login" button located at the top right-hand corner of the homepage.

2. Enter your domain name and password into the login screen. Wait for Bluehost to load the "cPanel," where website administration takes place.

3. Press the "Subdomains" button located within the "Domains" section of the "cPanel" homepage.

4. Select a subdomain name that represents the type of content you plan on creating. The subdomain name will appear before your domain name within the URL. If you create a subdomain called "news," for example, the URL for the subdirectory would read as "http://news.yourwebsitedomain.com."

5. Enter your chosen subdomain name into the "Subdomain" input box. If you have more than one domain name hosted within your Bluehost account, click on the domain name of your choice within the drop-down bar located next to the "Subdomain" input box.

6. Press the "Create" button to customize the new subdomain. Wait for Bluehost to process the subdomain address and return a confirmation message.

7. Test out the subdomain by typing the full subdirectory address into the browser's address bar. If you successfully created the subdomain, a temporary Bluehost place-holding page should appear.

8. Add content to your subdomain by selecting "File Manager" within the "Files" section of the "cPanel" homepage. Click on the directory name that matches the name of your created subdomain to open the subdomain directory. Upload all content files to this directory.

References

• Bluehost

Resources

• NetMechanic: Promotion Tip: Site Organization with Subdomains
• Case Western Reserve University: An URL by Any Other Name Would Still Work Like an URL