To all web masters I have another question...?

I signed up for yahoo web hosting.. yahoo tells me I have also 100 sub domains with my plan. I Don%26#039;t really understand what a sub domain is and what it is used for. I tried different sites to get an answer but still don%26#039;t fully understand. The example yahoo gives is info@mydomain.net. Is a sub domain like a e-mail address. To you pro%26#039;s this may sound like a stupid question, but we all have to start at the beginning and I am eager to learn. I am sure some of you guys started out with a little bit of knowledge on these matters. Could someone please explain to me in plain english what a sub domain is and how I can use it for my website. Thanks you guys/gals
To all web masters I have another question...?
john.yourname.com


harry.yourname.com


lisa.yourname.com





those are subdomains.
To all web masters I have another question...?
Sub-domain...is like if you want to add someone else %26quot;www%26quot; address to your site.
Reply:A subdomain is a seperate area of your own domain. For example if you own mydomain.com your sub domains could be iown.mydomain.com news.mydomain.com yaddayadda.mydomain.com, forums.mydomain.com and the can be pointed to different areas of a web server or to do whatever you like with.
Reply:Think of sub domains like children in a family. You have the main domain, ie http://yahoo.com then you have sub domains like http://developer.yahoo.com or http://mail.yahoo.com





They are just easy ways to branch your website into different areas or in yahoo%26#039;s case, different services.
Reply:A sub domain gives a visitor direct access to a web page without going through the original homepage.





If you have a website called MyFamily.com the pages devoted to your son and daughter would look like:


OurSon.MyFamily.com and OurDaughter.MyFamily.com





However, you will have to direct visitors to the pages


originally called MyFamily.com/MySon.html and MyFamily.com/Mydaughter.html





Look under %26quot;redirect%26quot; in your webhosting pages. Sorry, but I%26#039;ve never done it in Yahoo, so I%26#039;m not sure what their procedure is, they use. The redirect takes about a day or so to be registered.