JeevesBond — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 12:02:34 +0000

The cost of getting hosting is so little these days that there's little point in using a free provider, although it does depend somwhat on what you're trying to do. Unfortunately most free providers will load your site with annoying adverts that make it really worth buying a domain and space for yourself.

Tim, I'm shocked you got that wrong!

Quick pop-quiz: What is FTP part of?

demonhale — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 08:46:07 +0000

I have to defend tripod, they host one of my sites...
Yes they have a web based FTP, You can upload eight files simultaneously, you can also check the options if you want to replace files or rename files or allow overwrite...
The good on the FTP is that if you upload via the zip-file option, if you zip up the complete page from your hardrive (with pictures and etc.) you just upload it in a singe click and all these files will be up and running...
As for the ADS, you could move it somewhere more tolerable, look at my site...

steve40 — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:13:43 +0000

Gosh: I always thought FTP stood for "FILE THAT PAGE".

steve40 — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:09:30 +0000

If you go with Lycos, which I would not do. You have two choices Angelfire or Tripod. Go with Angelfire they have both FTP, and browser upload.

Tripod does not have an FTP the last time I checked. Both these places are "eat slap up" with adds, I used Angelfire for years but finally had to leave.

timjpriebe — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 12:58:53 +0000

karriston wrote: Wrong! It's file transfer protocol. Sorry, but I'm right

Doh! As a Computer Science graduate, I'm very embarrassed. Thanks for the correction.

And I'm not sorry you're right, just sorry I was wrong.

karriston — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 12:39:23 +0000

Quote: FTP stands for file transfer point.

Wrong! It's file transfer protocol. Sorry, but I'm right :csaw:

02bunced — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 19:13:15 +0000

It does stand for file transfer protocol!

vibins — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 18:21:10 +0000

timjpriebe wrote:
FTP stands for File Transfer Point.

I thought it stood for file transfer protocol, o well i must be thinking of http.
Thanks tim for that little note of infomation.

fifeclub — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 13:47:16 +0000

Many sites that host your sites for free, like Lycos and Geocities will often allow you to upload your files via a webpage interface (where you click browse, find your file, then click upload) which should allow you to skip any need to care about FTP. It sounds to me like you should just concentrate on getting your pages online in the simplest manner and learn the other stuff later.

One footnote: After you get your pages online, carefully check every single link. There's a good chance your links may have been set up for your computer's C: drive which will not work in the wild. If that is the case, change links (including image tags too) in the following manner:

on your hard drive:
C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\Website\filename.html
C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\Website\images\photo.jpg

should be changed to*:
/filename.html
/images/photo.jpg

There are many possible ways to link your files but I'm just trying to make it simple for you. Make sure all paths are forward slashes and not backslashes, and you can strip off all the junk before the main website folder that contains all your files.

Hope that helps. I suggest checking out http://www.ezhtml.net/ for more information on website coding. Good luck!

timjpriebe — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 11:54:22 +0000

Vibins is absolutely right. The best way to go about it is to keep a copy of the website on your computer. This should be the copy that you make changes to, then upload it to whatever web server you use.

This way, if something happens to the web server you use, you can just upload all the files again, and everything will be fine and dandy.

FTP stands for File Transfer Point. If you download an FTP program, it allows you to make your computer one point, and connect to another point, the web server. Then you can transfer your files (in this case, HTML and image files, possibly others) from one point, your computer, to another, the web server.

Most good FTP programs have an interface like Windows Explorer, where you can just drag-and-drop folders and files from your computer to the web server.