2. Lesson 19
Upload Your Page
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3. Uploading pages
Until now, only you have had the satisfaction of viewing your
pages. Now it is time for the rest of the world to see your
masterpieces.
Is the world ready for that?
The world is ready - you soon will be too. To get your website
on the internet, you just need some server space and a free
FTP program.
If you have Internet access, you might already have some free server
space for your website. Your server space will then probably be called
something like http://home.provider.com/~usernumber. But you
might need to activate it first. Read more about this in the papers from
your Internet provider or on their support pages.
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4. Another option is to get some free server space on the Internet.
In the same way that you set up an e-mail account (at for
example Hotmail), you can register for free server space on
the Internet.
Several companies offer such a service - among them Angelfire
(click "Sign Up" and choose the free membership) - it will only
take a couple of minutes to register.
To have access to the server, you need to know the "Host Name"
(For example, ftp.angelfire.com) and have your username and
password ready.
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5. Is that all I need?
To access the server and upload your pages, you also need an
FTP program. FTP is short for File Transfer Protocol.
A FTP program is used to connect two computers over the
Internet so that you can transfer files from your computer to
another computer (the server). You might not have such a
program yet, but fortunately, this can be downloaded for free.
There are many different FTP programs. One of the better is
FileZilla, which is entirely free. So now you can download
FileZilla at filezilla.sourceforge.net.
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6. And how do I upload the pages?
Described below is how you upload your pages to a free account
at Angelfire with FileZilla. But the procedure is, more or less,
the same for all providers and FTP programs.
Open the FTP program while connected to the Internet.
Insert "Host Name" ("ftp.angelfire.com" under "Address"),
username (under "User") and password (under "Password")
and click "Connect".
You should now have access to the server.
In one side of the program you can see the contents of your
computer ("Local Site"), and in the other side, you can see the
content of the server ("Remote Site"):
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7. Find your HTML documents and images on your computer (on
the "Local site") and transfer them to the server (the "Remote
site") by double clicking on them.
Now the whole world can see them! (For example, at the address
http://www.angelfire.com/folk/htmlnet/page1.htm).
Name one of the pages "index.htm" (or "index.html") and it will
automatically become the start page. i.e. if you type
http://www.angelfire.com/folk/htmlnet (without any filename)
you will actually open
http://www.angelfire.com/folk/htmlnet/index.htm.
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8. In the long run, it might be a good idea to purchase your own
domain (for example:
www.your-name.com
or
www.your-name.net)
and avoid the long and complicated addresses you are being
assigned by your Internet provider or from providers of free
server space.
You can find and purchase domains at for example Speednames
or NetworkSolutions.
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