Web pages can't be seen if they live on your hard drive. Learn how to get them from there to your Web server.
Difficulty: Average
Time Required: 10 minutes
Here's How:
- Decide where you are going to put your pages.
- Find out the details of your account:your username, your password, the "host name" (the machine where you'll upload your files), and your URL or Web address
- Connect to the Internet
- Open up an FTP program (like Fetch - Mac or WS-FTP - PC)
- Put in the host name of your Web site
- Put in your username
- Put in your password
- Connect to the site
- Highlight the files you would like on your Web site
- Click on the option to transfer them to your Web site
Tips:
- Don't forget to transfer images and other multimedia files that are associated with your Web site.
What You Need:
- HTML Editor -or-
- Text Editor
- FTP client
