The following information is contained within your "Welcome to The Great E-scape!" e-mail and is needed to connect you to your Web site via FTP:

USERID
PASSWORD
HOSTNAME

Each time you run WS_FTP the Session Profile window will be displayed. A profile contains the information needed to connect to your Web site. Creating a profile now will eliminate the need for you to reconfigure the software each time you wish to connect to the Web server via FTP.

To create a profile, click the "New" button and enter a profile name at the top of the Session Profile window, such as "My Web Site." Next, enter your Host Name/Address (yourdomain.com), User ID (yourdoma --the first 8 letters of your domain name in lower case), and Password for your Web site as illustrated below.

Click "OK" to continue. This will connect you to the root directory of your account on the Web server. WS_FTP will display a split screen. The files on the left-hand side are on your local computer. The files on the right-hand side are on the server. You will see several folders on the right-hand side including www. This tells you that you are successfully connected to your Web site on the server.

Double click on www to get into your Web directory. This is where all your files will be downloaded. This is also where you will create sub-directories. The only other system directory that you may need to use is "cgi-bin." The cgi-bin directory is for custom scripts.

Make sure your Home page is named "index.html" or "index.htm" in lowercase and upload it to the www directory of your account.

To upload a file simply highlight the file(s) on the left and click the right arrow button (->) in the center of the window. Be sure to upload HTML documents and scripts in ASCII mode and images in Binary mode. To transfer a file to a subdirectory, double-click the appropriate subdirectory to open it before transferring the desired file(s). To create a new directory, click on the "MkDir" button when you are inside the www directory or inside another subdirectory. Give the new directory a name when prompted.

As soon as a file is uploaded to the Web server, it is available for all to see. If, after uploading a file, you are still unable to see the updated file in your browser, try hitting the "Refresh" or "Reload" button. If that fails, you need to clear your browser cache. Browsers have "Help" buttons with links to useful information on how to find and clear caches and other features of the browser.

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