Introduction to FileZilla FTP client

Pt. 1 of 5 | 1:38 |

Easy FTP with FileZilla

Monday August 10, 2009

Your Internet service provider (ISP) probably offers you a bit of space on the web for your own

personal web site

. Perhaps you already have your web site created and sitting on your computer.

how do you transfer the files to your web space

though?

FTP or File Transfer Protocol

is the answer and FileZilla is arguable the

best free FTP client

for the job. FTP is also useful for

sharing files between remote computers

and a host of other file transfer jobs.

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Show Notes

- Download
FileZilla for Linux

Download
FileZilla for Mac

Download
FileZilla for Windows

- FileZilla is a

free and open-source FTP client

but donations for further development are accepted.

- The

FTP program

is easy-to-use and works on multiple platforms.

- The display differs slightly from some other

FTP clients

in that each side has two panels instead of one.

- The upper panel shows the root of a folder and the lower panel shows the contents of that folder.

- In the coming segments we'll look at connections, transfers, online file editing and some of FileZilla's Extras.

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