Even where you have arranged for someone else to create your web pages for you, there is a lot more to setting up a web site than just purchasing web hosting. In this short tutorial I discuss some of the alternative ways that are available to upload your web pages to your hosting.
With dozens of free FTP programs available for download you’d have to wonder why someone would want to use their web browser to do the job but it can be done. In this article I look at how you can use Internet Explorer to transfer files if you can’t spare the two minutes needed to download and install a better program for the job.
My favourite FTP program is WS-FTP. While the company that created this script no longer offers a free version, the versions that they used to offer free can still be obtained. In this tutorial that I wrote several years ago I show just how simple that it is to upload files to your web hosting using this program.
Unless you are a professional web developer and designer all rolled into one, there will be occasions where you will want someone else to do some work on your site for you. In some cases you may be able to get them to do the work for you, send you the files, and upload them yourself. Other times, particularly if you have little knowledge of how the web works you will need to give them access to upload the files for you. You wont want to give them access to everything in your hosting account.
The solution to this is to set up an FTP account for them on your hosting that gives them access only to the folder that they need access to in order to upload the files. This doesn’t negate the need to make sure you give the job to someone you can trust but it does help limit the damage they can do if it turns out that they made a mistake. Besides which any legitimate developer or designer will not want access to any more than is necessary to do the job. If something breaks in an area they don’t have access to then there isn’t even a possibility that they could be considered responsible.
The last mainframe job that I had was setting up leased line communications between a major Australian bank and their biggest customers. These communications varied between three different communications protocols depending on the requirements of the other party.
As I was doing that sort of work when I first created the site, I of course included a section on communications software with pages on all three of the protocols i was using.
While few of you will ever come across XCOM or Netmaster, most of you will have heard of FTP.
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