How to transfer webpages to your website

Here is some generalized instructions for setting up the web site
ignore the windows orientation if not applicable.

 File transfer to the site is available via the internet standard of FTP (File Transfer Protocol).
You may use any ftp program you are familiar with, one possibility is
the built in ftp program in Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista to connect to your new web
site,(other alternative are programs such as Cute FTP, WS_FTP, or the FTP
function of an HTML editing program such as Netscape Composer, Adobe Golive, Pagemill, Dreamweaver etc.
(more than 50 different ones are available). If you use the FTP function of an HTML editing program
please consult the documentation for that HTML editor. If you have difficulty
using the ftp function of an HTML editor please try the Windows Command Prompt FTP
method described below, the error messages are often clearer. A brief summary of the Windows FTP
program follows:

Start from the Command Prompt (MSDOS mode} in the directory that contains the files you wish to
upload. What you type is in bold type below
 

ftp ftp.mycompany.com
username: mycompany-com     (note this username  is the 1st letters of the domain followed by a hyphen and the top level domain
e.g. mydomain-com
(not to be confused with the entire domain name the ftp user name is limited to 16 characters maximum)
password: whateverwasspecified
cd public_html
put windowsfilename unixfilename    e.g. PAGE2.HTM page2.htm
    and repeat as necessary
use the binary command before transferring the 1st image (.gif or .jpg) file.
the ls command will list the files uploaded in the current directory.
help will list the other available commands most of which will not be needed.
quit will terminate your ftp session.

The directory for web pages is public_html. (Actually
/home/mycompan/public_html) The default home page (initial page) is
index.html (some web servers use Welcome.html or other names).  Please note
all names are case sensitive INDEX.HTML is not the same as index.html i. e.
the Unix file names must be the same case as the references
in the HTML files to them. (Windows performs automatic case conversion
so that a file TEXT.HTM can be referenced as Text.htm and still work even
thought the HTML reference is actually to a different file.)
Here is a helpful tutorial for FTP FTP Tutorial
 
 

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