Information on how to publish your website , in other words upload it to the Internet.

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Publishing Your Website (Uploading it to the 'Net)

publishing to the internet OK! You now have the website prepared and ready to go. The next move is to publish it on the Internet by uploading it to a server. A server is one of these very special computers used by the ISPs or hosting companies that we spoke about earlier.

Your website will consist mostly of web page files and images. The process used to upload the files from a desktop PC to this space is called FTP (File Transfer Protocol).

Essentially this is the opposite process from downloading files from the Internet. The download process is all handled automatically by your web browsing software so you don't need to know anything about FTP to do this.

Navigating to your Hosting Space

Before you can upload anything you must find your way to the your hosting space. When you sign up with your hosting company they will provide information on how you should do this. You will be given details of the location of your space, a User ID and a password, which you can generally change to your own password.

To actually upload the files you need an * FTP Client. This is a software application designed to facilitate the FTP process.

Within the FTP client you set up the connection with the required information (the user ID and login from your hosting company). When this is set up for your site then all you have to do is drag and drop the files from your PC to the hosting space. This process is very similar to moving files between folders on your own PC using Internet Explorer. The FTP client saves the details making it easier to do this on subsequent occasions.

When your site has been uploaded it can be accessed immediately via the Internet by entering the domain name into the address bar.

* You can purchase FTP client software applications for this purpose but there are several free versions available to download from the Internet. These include SmartFTP, CoffeCup and the open source FTP client, Filezilla.

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