Free FTP Upload Software for Your Website - Filezilla
If you’ve been working just a little on your website, and you’ve registerred a domain name and signed up for your free or cheap webhosting at Hostroute or 1&1, now all you need is a way to get your brand new site from your computer to your new online home. The FTP utility I use is a freeware version that is reliable and really easy to use. It’s called Filezilla, and you can download the latest version 2.2.25 by using the link below. Make sure you remember where you downloaded the file! I created a new folder under My Received Files and called it “Filezilla”.
Once you download the file, just unzip it (using WinZip, or download it here, if you don’t already have it), and follow the install instructions. Then just open Filezilla by clicking on the desktop icon, click File, and choose Site Manager… from the menu. In the Site Manager box input all of your sites info, name (www.yoursite.com), and the user name and password for your site. This is usually set up by the web site provider, and you can then change your password to anything you’d like. For Servertype, use FTP and under Logontype choose Normal. The Port is usually 21, but Filezilla should find it for you.
Next, click the Connect button at the bottom of the box, and Filezilla will log you on to your website. Find the file with your website in it in the left hand top pane of the Filezilla screen (should be saved under My Documents/website or website name, whatever you chose) and open it by clicking on it. The contents will be shown in the bottom left pane. Now click on the public_html file in the right hand pane to open it. Highlight all of the files in your website folder (click on top one and use down arrow while holding the shift key down to highlight all of them), then right click on the highlighted files and choose Upload from the menu. All of your files will be automatically uploaded to your website. Just make sure that your file for your main first page is named index.html, (hightlight it and rightclick on it to rename it, if necessary), and then disconnect (under File button on top row) and close Filezilla.
Your new site should be up and running, and you can visit it by opening IE and typing in the address. Make sure to check all of your links and buttons, to make sure they’re working, and start sending people to your new site!
Come back and visit, and we’ll talk about adding a Wordpress weblog (blog) to your new site, as well as some free ways to promote it.
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