Uploading Files to Your Web Hosting

In this step, you will be given instructions for uploading your pages to a web server. After this you will be able to review your site online in your browser. We leave it up to you what sort of hosting company and domain name to choose because such decision depends on the specifics of your business. In the following instructions it is assumed that you have a login/password combination available from your hosting provider.

Open a browser and type ftp://domain_name in address line. Where domain_name is the domain name of your future website.

In Internet Explorer, choose File>Enter as... to display authentication dialog. Enter your login and password and click OK. Now you are logged in to the FTP server of your web hosting.

Copy your web pages and folders to your site root directory as you would to any other folder on your computer. All HTML files should be placed in the root folder of your web hosting. All images should be located in /images folder, SWF movie files in /Flash folder. In other words you should keep the folder structure that was given to you in the HTML folder of your web design template.

Now you can view your great website online.