How to FTP

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File Transfer Protocol

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FTP is an abbrveiation for file transfer protocol. It is way of transfering your website files that are on your computer to your webhosting server. Once you transfer these files they are now viewable to the world wide web.
Remember before you actually start FTPing you will need to learn HTML

There are hundreds of FTP programs that help you do that.
I'll name a few right here.

Ace FTP Freeware
CUTE FTP Free Trial
Ftpclient.com FTP for Macs

If you are using a windows based computer I recommend Aceftp.
1. Download Aceftp and add it to your start programs.
2. Open up Aceftp
3. Below is what it should look like.

how to ftp

FTP Tutorial

4. Ok now you will need to use the hostname and password your webhosting company gave you.
Your hostname is usually yourwebsitename.com and your password is what you gave your hosting company as a password.

5. See image below. Hostname is where you type in yourwebsitename.com. The id is where you type your username. And the password is your password.

how to ftp

6. You can now edit your webpages using HTML-KIT and upload those files to your webhosting server.

ftp tutorial

7. Be sure you upload your files to the "public_HTML" Directory. IT is also called the root and main directory.

ftp lessons

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