Web Developer Zone - Uploading Your Pages
In order for the web pages you create to be visible on the Internet, a copy of them
must be placed on one of our web servers. This process is called 'uploading' your web
pages.
The program used to upload your files is called an
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client.
Your FTP client will establish a connection between your machine
and the web server, allowing you to easily transfer files back and forth.
In order to create this connection, you will need three pieces of information:
- The name of the server you wish to connect to
- Your FTP Login ID
- Your FTP Password
You will be told the name of the server (1) when you purchase your webspace.
The Login ID (2) and Password (3) will be the same as your current dial-up
Login ID and Password.
Below are some more helpful hints that will help you get your web pages working
as quickly as possible.
Use Relative Paths
If you create a link to another one of your other files, refer to that file by
simply using its filename with no path. Example:
Check out my <A HREF="bookmark.htm">Favorite Bookmarks</A>
Uppercase and Lowercase Filenames
If you link to another file, the link must exactly match the name of the file,
including upper- or lower-case letters, or the link will not work. Here are some examples:
If the file is on the server as
bookmark.htm,
then this hyperlink will work fine:
Check out my <A HREF="bookmark.htm">Favorite Bookmarks</A>
However, these hyperlinks will not work:
Check out my <A HREF="Bookmark.htm">Favorite Bookmarks</A>
Check out my <A HREF="BOOKMARK.HTM">Favorite Bookmarks</A>
Check out my <A HREF="bookmark.HTM">Favorite Bookmarks</A>
Remember, if the file is on the server as
bookmark.htm,
then in your HTML documents, you must refer to the file as
bookmark.htm,
not as
Bookmark.htm or
BOOKMARK.HTM, etc.
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