Step 5: FTP

What is FTP?
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol This is how you upload your files to your file server, or host. This is why you purchased hosting for you domain. The way you do your FTP is you need an FTP client. You can use IE (internet Explorer) as an FTP client or you can download freeware software like Filezilla to help you (filezilla is a little bit more intuitive than IE of course). You can also use Dreamweaver if you have the money and you’ve purchased that.

Anyways, the way you upload is you use your domain host, usually your domain name, and you use your username and password that your hosting company gave you. If you’re using IE, type this into the address bar “ftp://yourdomain.com” and then go. Choose file>login as, Then you can put your username and password in. it will now give you a directory structure. Usually your files should be stored in a www/ or html_public/ folder. There you will copy all of your files that are associated with your web page (make sure to include pictures and stylesheets).

Congratulations, you’ve now completed your website.

A word about INDEX files:
If you want a webpage to appear without typing in another file name after the path (ex: yourdomain.com/path.htm) Name the html file “index.html” and it will show up in that root folder.