How To Upload Using WS FTP PRO (IPSWITCH)

Once connected you will see a listing of files within your site. You will see the 'www' - 'public_html' or 'html' and 'cgi-bin' directories in right window  (depending on the sever info sent to you).

On the left-hand side will be files on your hard drive and on the right-hand side will be files on our server. When you are ready to upload your files to our server, change the directory on our server by clicking on the 'www' - 'public_html' or 'html' .

Then drag the files you wished to be copied from the left-hand side to the right-hand side.

You must place all your html and image files in the  'www' - 'public_html' or 'html' . directory.

Only files placed in the 'www' - 'public_html' or 'html' .directory, they can be viewed on your website. Keep all filenames in lowercase characters. Your main page should be called index.html or index.htm.

The webserver first looks for index.html by default and if not there it looks for index.htm and index.shtml.

1. Please open the WS FTP program from your desktop.

2. You must first create a site account. Highlight the folder "MySites " on the left hand side .
Click on the button.

3. Enter a name for your site

4 . Enter the address of the server you wish to connect to as shown in the diagram below:

Enter : yourname.com
Click on the button.

5. Enter your FTP Account information provided to you into the following areas as shown in the diagram below:

User Id: yourname@yoursite.com
Password: your password

Save your password if you wish.

6. You must now log into our servers.

Open WS FTP pro and Highlight the site you created.
Click on the button to the right hand side.

7. You are now connected to your FTP account!
It should now look like this:

8. Double click on the WWW directory folder located on the right hand side so that the directory is opened.

9. From the left hand side, you will need to search for your files on your computer in which you would like to upload to your site.

10. Highlight all of the files you wish to upload and Click the green arrow in the center of the program to upload the pages to our server . You may also DRAG them over to an open area on the right hand side of the program so that you will upload the files into your WWW directory.

11. Your files will upload instantly onto your site.

12. REMEMBER to name your homepage index.htm (all lowercase) for your site to be visible so that it overwrites our default index.htm file we provide to you.

13. Once you have finished uploading your files, go to your site and visit your finished product!