FTP

I`ve noticed loads of people having trouble with FTP, eventhough it is a simple and very handy program to use once you get the hang of it. So I decided to create this FTP tutorial using SmartFTP.

First, you need to open your ftp program, I use SmartFTP which can be downloaded here, though the tutorial will probably work for most ftp programms.

Once you`ve opened your programm you`ll notice something similar to this on top of your screen:

The adress if where you enter the ftp server of your site, which is server19.hosting2go.nl for my site, but will be something entirely else for your site. If you own the site you should know the server, if you`re a hostee you can ask your host for it if you don`t know it yet. You need to login to get access to the server, so a login name and pass have to be made for you, this can be done for every (sub)domain seperately or everyone can use the same server, if you bought your own domain I advice you to give every subdomain their own.

So..now you`re logged in. When you`ve got your own domain you`ll see something similar to this:

And when you have a subdomain you`ll see this:

For both, the only map you really need to make your site is the httpdocs map. Click it =D

When you open the httpdocs you`ll see all your files lined up like this:

But if you`re just starting yours will probably be empty except for the index.html..so how to create a new page? It`s quite easy really, you can just right click the page and a menu like this will pop up:

By clicking the new>file, you`ll be able to make a new file from scrath. Though you can upload a page you already made in notepad, or upload an image, aswell. To upload something from your computer do it like this:


Now we`re going to edit the file, I`m going to edit this tutorial. right click the page you`d like to edit and click edit like this:

Sometimes a box pops up asking if you want to download and open this file, click yes. Once you`ve clicked it (if it shows up at all) this box will pop up:

Click overwrite, your page will pop up in notepad (do make sure your .html and .php etc files open in notepad, not in word). You can edit the file to you liking like I`m doing right now. Save the notepad and click upload on the box which has popped up after clicking overwrite:

The box will dissapear and tada..your page is edited..sure hope this helped! =D