Designing your first web site

Load Your Web Site Onto Your Host

You'll need a File Transfer Protocol utility to transfer your Web site to your host. You can find a number of shareware choices on Download.com. For our example site, we used ACEftp, a popular freeware utility. Click here to download

To upload your site, you'll need the following information:

• Host name (for sipero online customers this is located in your hosting account control panel and will look something like: ftp.siperoonline.co.uk ).
• Log-in name and password (for sipero online customers this is usually your account name and password, however you should check your welcome email to confirm this).
• Directory for your Web pages. (for Sipero Online customers using a Windows hosting account your directory will be /www whereas UNIX accounts simply use the root of your webspace ( / )

Once you've connected to your host you should see two windows (as shown above). On the left you have the files and folders on your pc, on the right you have the files and folders on your web space. When you've moved to the correct directory (/www for windows hosted accounts), it's time to upload your index.html file.

Simply select the files from your left window (your pc files) and click the right arrow between the two windows to copy them to your web space. Alternatively you may drag and drop your files from one window to the other (the procedure depends on your FTP utility). Don't forget to move any graphic images as well (if your graphics are located in a different folder on your pc you will need to create this folder on your web space also).

Disconnect from the Web site, close your FTP utility, open your browser, and do a final check to make sure your site looks right. If everything works correctly, you're open for business.

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