Using FTP to get your web site online

Pt. 9 of 10 | 3:42 |

Create Your Own Web Site 101

Thursday December 10, 2009

If you opted to

create your own web site

using the

free web site design software

covered in part seven of our Web Site 101 series, you'll need to get those web pages and associated files to your site host's servers.

File transfer protocol (FTP)

is the answer. Simply enter your login info and server address (provided by your host) and send all your files!

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- There are many good FTP clients, here are a few:

FTP Voyager

CoffeeCup Direct FTP

CuteFTP Professional

WS_FTP Professional

- In the FTP client of your choice, make a new connection to your web host.

- Give it a name, and put in the FTP information provided to you by your host.

- You'll want to log in using your host credentials and not anonymously.

- Your computer and associated files will be in one area and your web site host's server will be in another.

- In most cases you can drag and drop files from your PC to your host so they will transfer.

- When you've made improvements to your site and upload a file it will warn you that you're overwriting the existing file.

- If that's your intent, just say OK.

- You can can transfer many files to your Web host fairly rapidly.

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