Windows: download WS_FTP
Macintosh: download Fetch

1. First you need to be logged in and online.
2. Now launch your your FTP program.
3. Under Profile Name type: your_domain_name
4. Under Host Name type: ftp.your_domain_name.com
5. Under UserID type in your login.
6. Under Password type your password. Then press enter.
7. Under Local System (on the left hand side of the screen) choose a path for the file. The top portion of the screen refers to the drive where the file(s) are located. (A:, B:, C:, or D:) You should then see your files in the lower part of the screen on the Local System side.
Double click on the file(s) to upload them into the "root" if your domain directory. The files will appear under Remote System on the right.
8. The final step in the posting of your web page to the Internet is very important. If it is not so already, ighlight the file that is to be the first page or main page of your web site and rename this file index.html (See tips below) and then click O.K. It may be necessary for you to change the links in your other pages as well to reference your main page (index.html) as you have changed the name. Then when you have completed the transfer and the main page file name change, click on the Close button on the bottom of the screen and then click on Exit.
9. Your web page can then be displayed if you type in the URL:
   
   http://www.your_domain_name.com/
   
10. If you are only posting pictures they will display if you type the URL:
    
    http://www.your_domain_name.com/filename.jpg
    or
    http://www.your_domain_name.com/filename.gif
    

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Important Tips

• Be sure that all the pages and all the graphics for your site are transferred and that all the links within the pages are referencing the correct files within your directory. For example, if you link to images or pages that are in the same directory as the loaded page, the link should look something like this:
  
  <IMG src="myimage.gif" width="20" height="20" alt="My Image">
Or
  <A href"nextpage.html">Next Page</A>


• Set your transfer mode for Automatic. If the pictures look scrambled or don't come up correctly, this automatic mode may not be working correctly. Re-upload any page files in ASCII mode and any images, PDF files, video, Flash objects, Java Applets, or other non-text elements in BINARY mode.
• Some home pages may be on NT servers. ALthough the "8/3" filenaming convention died with the passing of Windows 3.11, we still recommend making a habit of naming your files only 8 characters long and a three-character extension. ie., logo123.jpg (with the exception of the HTML extension, see below.)
• It is important that you use no special characters or spaces in your file names.
• When you call another page or load an image, the filename called out in your page is case-sensitive. For example, if you have an image in your page
  
  <IMG src="myimage.gif" width="20" height="20" alt="My Image">

  and you name the file
  
  MYimage.gif or MYIMAGE.gif or myimage.GIF
  
  The broken-image icon will display on the page instead of the image. Be sure to use the same case structure in the page that you use in the filename. The same is true of naming your linked HTML pages.
• You may name your home page one of several names, but for simplicity name it index.html, all in lower case. When someone calls your site without the filename, as in
  
  http://www.your_domain_name.com
  
  the web server's directory indexing configuration will automatically look for index.html first and return your home page.
  As an added note, A web server normally indexes any directory's home page in a specific order. This is determined by the server's configuration file, and the standard indexing lookup order is index.html, index.htm, home.html, then other files, although this order can be changed or added to. If the first is not found, it looks for the next and so on. Your page will always index correctly if it is named index.html. This is useful if you want to set up subdirectories:
  
  index.html
mypics/index.html
mypics/vacation/index.html

These can then be linked from your page or called from a browser by the directory name only:
  
  http://www.your_domain_name.com/mypics
http://www.your_domain_name.com/mypics/vacation