Website Design:
Once you have created a website on your hard drive you need to get it up on to the Web. This is called "uploading“ or “publishing” or “ftp’ing” Publishing your Website Stages of creating a Website Publish
Publishing your Website Downloading: process of receiving a program, document or file via a network from another computer Remote Site (server) Local Computer Uploading: Local computer Remote site (server ) Internet Provider (IP) host
Publishing your Website Not all FTP clients will connect to a server Other FTP applications: PC: Secure Shell Filezilla WS-FTP Mac-based: Fugu Fetch Find out which FTP clients are compatible with the web server you are working on at the time. FileZilla
Publishing your Website Need 4 pieces of information from web host: 1.Host name check for the proper address provided by your Web site's Host ftp.tripod.com Username (user#) 3.Password 4.URL or Web page address
Publishing your Website Once you have this information, you can use it to upload your Web pages and images to the Web site. 1. Connect to the Internet if not connected all the time. 2. Open up an FTP program Some good ones are Filezilla for PC and Fetch for the Mac 3. Put in the host name of your Web site 4. Put in your username 5. Put in your password 6. Connect to the site 7. Highlight the files you would like on your Web site and click on the option to transfer them to your Web site 8. Don't forget to transfer images and other multimedia files that are associated with your Web site. These are Similar steps with other FTP software
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