AceFTP is available for free download here: http://software.visicommedia.comAceFTP.

Once you have your HTML code created on your local hard drive, you are ready to upload the files to the server. After you have installed AceFTP on your local computer, double click on it. You should see a screen similar to:

Connection Bar

Local File Listing

Remote File Listing

Fill in the Connection Bar with your account details. Enter your domain name (or IP) in the field labeled Host:. Enter your Account Username in the field labeled ID:. Enter your Account Password in the field labeled P/W:.

Notice that when you fill this information in, the icon beside the P/W field becomes clickable. This is the Connect button. Once you have your information entered in correctly, click Connect. You will notice that the Remote File Listing has changed.

This is the current directory structure of your account on the server. Double click on the www directory.

The www directory is where you want to upload anything on your account that is Web accessible. This means that anything you upload in your www directory will be accessible by going to http://yourdomain.com/yourfile. You will see a file named index.html. This is the placeholder file that was seen previously when you went to your domain name. Since you are uploading a new Web site, your new index.html file will replace the one that was there as a placeholder.

After you upload, the file listing will refresh to show the files that are then present in that directory.

In the Local File Listing side select all of the files that you want to transfer. You can do this by selecting the top file or directory and press Shift and using the down arrow key to go all the way to the bottom. This will highlight all of the files/directories in that directory. Or you can hold Ctrl and single click on the files that you want to transfer. This will highlight only the files that you have selected. After you have the selected files, click on the arrow that is pointing to the right, that is between the Local File Listing and the Remote File Listing.

When you click on the Copy to Right button. The files will begin to transfer. A window will popup that shows your transfer progress.

After this process is complete, the Remote File Listing will refresh to show you the new file structure. This should include the files that you just uploaded. Now when you go to your Web site, you will see the pages that you created and uploaded to your site.

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