Uploading Your Websit to Internet Connection

Now that you have a domain name and a hosting plan you need to upload your site. This is normally done with an FTP program. FTP is the easiest and most popular way to transfer your site onto the Internet.

In this tutorial we will use the FTP program WS-FTP. This is a free program for personal non-commercial sites, and students.

After downloading and installing WS-FTP, naturally the first step is selecting it from the start menu and running it.

The first screen you are presented with displays a list of settings of a server you might want to connect to. Because we want to connect to our own servers we click the "New" button on the right. This gives us blank settings to enter our details into.

The settings are as follows:

• Profile Name: The name you would like to call your site in WS-FTP's settings. It doesn't make any difference what you name it but it makes it easier if you pick something easy to remember.
• Host Name / Address: This is the IP address of your hosting account. You can check your IP address in the welcome setup email you received from us when you ordered your hosting.
• Host Type: The default of "Automatically detect" is correct.
• User ID: Your hosting FTP username as found in your setup email.
• Password: Your hosting FTP password as found in your setup email
• Account: This can remain blank.
• Comment: This can remain blank.
• Anonymous: This must not be ticked
• Save Pwd: This is optional, but it makes connecting in the future easier if you tick it.

Once all of your settings are entered, click the "Apply" button to save them, and then click the "OK" button to connect.
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If all of your settings have been entered correctly then you will see it connect, and then leave you in your "root directory". It is important to note that you do not place files here if you want the public to see them.

You must first go into your public_html directory to upload files if your account is on a Linux plan or the httpdocs directory if on a Windows plan. This directory is where to place files that you would like the public to see (like your website files). Double-click on the public_html / httpdocs directory as appropriate to enter it.

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In the public_html / httpdocs directory we see the following:

• A "cgi-bin" directory for placing any CGI scripts you need. Most websites we host do not use this feature.
• An "images" directory. This is where the "holding page" stores its images. You can feel free to delete this directory.
• An "home.htm" file. This is the "holding page" and can be deleted or overwritten.

To upload your website all of your files need to be placed in this directory. To upload your first page, go to the directory on the left-hand part of the screen. Then select your homepage file (this should be named index.html) and click the "->" arrow to upload it. Remember that if your page contains any images they need to be uploaded too.

Congratulations! Your website is now fully working! Now anyone can type www.yourdomain.com into Internet Explorer or another web browser and he or she will see your page

How to Make Website

Making a website is very easy.

Do you want to learn how to build a Website, personal or business, and are looking for clear and comprehensive information and help?

Here you will learn how to make your own website using easy to understand, step by step courses, articles and tutorials designed especially for beginners.

Steps to Build a Web Site

Regardless of whether you want to build a business or personal Web site, there are 3 main steps involved.

Starting with the basics you will learn... How to:

1. Plan
2. Choose the hosting and domain name
3. Design and build

Your Website

But what if you don't want to build your own website but would rather have someone make it for you?

What do you need to know?

As with any project the more you understand what is involved, the easy it is to make it a success.

Therefore I would recommend that you become aware of the basics, and these are covered in websites for business owners

However it doesn't end there. Once the site is built you will then need to:

1. Build Traffic to the site
2. Monetize and Make money - Even personal websites can make money for the site owner.

Monitor and Maintain your site

Worm & Viruses

In general terms a virus is a program that runs on a system against the owner's or user's wishes and knowledge. Viruses have one or more methods they use to spread. Most commonly they will attach a file to an e-mail message and attempt to trick victims into running the attachment.

Virus Damage

In most cases, viruses can do any amount of damage the creator intends them to do. They can send your data to a third party and then delete your data from your computer. They can also ruin your system and render it unusable without a re-installation of the operating system. Most have not done this much damage in the past, but could easily do this in the future. Usually the virus will install files on your system then will change your system so the virus is run every time you start your system. It will then attempt to replicate itself by sending itself to other potential victims.

The normal effect a virus will have on your system is that over time your system will run slower. Also when you are using the internet your connection may seem to run slower. Eventually you may have trouble running programs on your system, your system may freeze, and in the worst case you may not be able to get it to boot up when you turn your computer on.

How Viruses or Worms Spread

Most commonly viruses today use e-mail to spread however they have used one or more of the following methods to spread in the past.

• Some viruses will load themselves onto any part of a writable removable drive as possible and spread from computer to computer as people use the removable drive.
• A worm is a program similar to a virus that will exploit a vulnerability in an operating system or application that a computer user is running. The best defense against a worm is to have either a personal firewall on your system or be behind a corporate firewall. Another good defense is to update your system regularly. All you need to do to get a worm is to connect an unpatched computer to the internet or infected network when your computer does not have firewall protection.

Most viruses will spread themselves using e-mail attachments. They may tell the user that they neet to open the attachment to get the rest of the information that is being sent to them. Many times the virus may claim it is an administrator and the user needs to either read the data or install a program on their system. Viruses have even claimed to be Microsoft sending a system patch as an attachment to the e-mail. Microsoft would never send a system patch through e-mail.

Manage Your File

File Organization

Files can be placed in folders similar to the way single sheets of paper can be placed into folders in a file cabinet. Folders can be created on the hard drive or nested inside each other any way the computer user desires.

Browsing Your files using Windows

If using a Windows operating system double click on the "My Computer" icon on your desktop. A window like the one shown below will open

The first drive in the window shown is a floppy drive. It is labeled as drive A. The second disk is the system hard drive labeled as drive C. The third disk shown is a data disk shown as drive D. This is not a normal setup on most systems but I like to use a hard drive to hold my data that is different than the hard drive that holds the operating system. Drives E and F are compact disks (CD ROM drives) of which one is a read/write drive.

The drive letters will vary depending on how your system is configured and depending on whether you have any network drives. If you do have network drives, you should use them for the mail place you store your files. This is because files on network drives are usually backed up nightly in most organizations. If your files are not backed up and your hard drive fails, you will lose your data.

Copying Files

There are several ways Windows operating systems allow files to be copied or moved. They include:

• Drag and drop - In the window above it is easy to drag one of the files into one of the folders. This will move the file into the folder. This can also be done by opening two windows using the "My Computer" icon and dragging the file from one window to another.
• Copy and paste - You can open a "My Computer" window, and do the following:
• On the "My Computer" menu select "Edit", then "Copy".
• Navigate to the location where you want to put the file. You can navigate by using the "Up" folder to go up one level into the folder structure or by double clicking on folders to enter them. If the "Up" folder does not exist in your "My Computer" window, on your menu, select "View", then "toolbars", then select "Standard Buttons".
• On the "My Computer" menu select "Edit", then "Paste". The file will be copied to the location you have navigated to.

Copying Multiple Files

There are several tricks that can be used to make copying or moving multiple files easier. They involve the selection of the files to be copied or moved. You can hold down the Shift key and select one file by clicking on it with the left mouse button (called left clicking). While still holding the Shift key down left click on another file several files down on the list. This will cause all files from the first one through the last one selected to be highlighted and selected. Release the ShiftCtrl key and by left clicking on any other files, they can be either selected or de-selected. Release the Ctrl key. Once you have selected the files you can move them by dragging and dropping them (after releasing both the shift and control keys) into another folder. This is done as follows: key. After this, you can hold down the

1. Put the mouse cursor over one of the selected files.
2. Left clicking the mouse and hold it down
3. Drag the file to the desired location such as a folder icon.
4. Release the left mouse button.

If you want to copy the files:

1. On the "My Computer" menu select "Edit", then "Copy".
2. Navigate to the location where you want to put the file.

On the "My Computer" menu select "Edit", then "Paste". The file will be copied to the location you have navigated to.

Basic Tutorial

You Can operate your computer?

This basic computer tutorial is written for those who do not know very much about computers. The purpose of this basic computer tutorial is to help the reader better understand how to use their computer more effectively and safely. It will help the reader understand:

• What files and file types are.
• How to copy files.
• Where your files are stored.
• What the parts of your computer are.
• What an operating system is.
• What a computer program is.

Security and Performance

With the above basic information, this tutorial will explain methods that you can do to make your system more secure, keep your data safe by backing it up, and avoid most performance degredation caused to bad applications and SPAM.

• How some file types can be used by third parties to gain control of your computer.
• How to modify your file view settings so you are not as easily fooled by e-mails containing viruses.
• How to prevent viruses and worms.
• How to reduce SPAM.
• How to back up your files.
• How to reduce or eliminate unwanted programs that could reduce your system performance.
• What to do if you receive a virus or worm.

What to do if you receive an e-mail telling you that an e-mail you sent contained a virus.

This basic computer tutorial gives some basic information about hardware, operating systems, and programs in the first half to help the reader understand later information about files, e-mail and computer security practices. Depending on the reader's level of knowledge, some of the basic information may be skipped and the reader may refer to the terms page if they do not understand some of the terms.