Upload Your Web Pages Using Internet Explorer
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer version 6.0 has the ability to Upload or Publish your web pages from your computer to your web server.
You need 4 pieces of information in order to accomplish the ftp connection:
There can be many variations and this is one source of difficulty in getting setup with your web site and making changes and publishing those changes. All the above information must be exactly correct or you may not get connected. It may be possible to get connected but to be in the wrong directory. If this happens look for a directory named as mentioned above and open that directory. The correct directory will probably have a basic file called either index.html or index.htm which will be a sort of placeholder and may say something like Future Home of: followed by your domain name.
Open up the folder on your computer which contains the web page(s) that you want to upload. Now open Internet Explorer in another window.
If you don’t have Internet Explorer, download it free:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/critical/ie6sp1/default.mspx
In the address box type in your webserver address and your login information like this:
ftp://username:password@yourdomainname/uploadfolder
where username = your username for your web site
where password = your password for your web site
where yourdomainname = your actual domain name
(example sfi-1.com)
Where uploadfolder = whichever directory your Host gave you as the one to upload webpages to (example: httpdocs or one of the other choices above.)
If everything goes ok, you will see another page load into your Internet Explorer which will look almost the same as the My Computer window but showing the files that exist on your web site.
Since both these windows should now be in view all you have to do is to click the file in My Computer. While holding the left mouse button down, drag the file by moving the mouse pointer until it is over the window showing your website files. When it is there, drop the file by releasing the mouse button. You should see a dialog box indicate that the file is being copied to your website. Once that completes, you should see the addition of the file in with your other website files. You could also be uploading a newer version of your homepage in which case it would overwrite the old one.
You will be able to view the new file as you would normally view a page on your website using Internet Explorer and typing in:
http://yourdomainname/newfile.html where newfile.html is the name of the newly uploaded file. By typing the address in this way, Internet Explorer will display the file as a webpage.
It is probably good practice to keep all the pages, images, etc. that make up your web site in a folder on your computer. I suggest you use My Documents, My Webs. When you want to make a change in a page, first make it on your computer. View it in Internet Explorer and if it is the way you want it, upload it to your website.
You use http to view pages, and ftp to change them. But in order to change pages, you must have a proper username and password. This, of course, prevents unauthorized persons from changing your site.
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