I still don't understand the difference between a domain and a sub-domain, other than its just another page to the site. If i'm wrong, somebody please correct me and describe what the difference is.
A subdomain is like forums.digitalpoint.com where the forums part is the subdomain. A domain is digitalpoint.com where it has nothing before it.
subdomain is a name you can use before your domain, generally where you see www on most sites. if you have a forum at www,yoursite.com/forum, you can create a subdomain called forum and link to it. then it would be forum.yoursite.com. looks alot cleaner and more descriptive
k, now my next question is how to properly implement sub-domains and how to know when and where to use them?
take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdomain [I made those urls up based on the standard wikipedia url structure so if they dont work just say] use subdomains when that part of your network is a different TYPE of website, but under the same name... so, say you have a mainpage... and you want a blog, and a forum aswell... I'd say put these in subdomains "forum" and "blog". Chuckun
Another thing is: Domains = contain the DNS, subdomains can't use their own DNS unless you have a script for it. Subdomains are usually where you put added on features to a normal domain, like a forum or gallery.
To create subdomains you need a domain to begin. Also how to make them would depend on the control panel your webhosting provider provides along with the option given by your web hosting provider to create them, check with your webhoster to check if they offer it as an option and which control panel they use to receive a proper response
my host does offer them, but I'm just been having a problem figuring the CORRECT way to implement one should I decide to do so