Learn HTML Onlinetutorials for beginners

So you have purchased your domain name from your favorite registrar and you are ready for your website to go live. You have setup an account with a host server (If you don’t have a host server yet, here is a list of web hosts recommended by WordPress). The only thing left is to upload your files to your server with FTP software.

For the sake of this tutorial, we will be using a free FTP software called FileZilla. You can download it at the FileZilla website.

Basically all we will be doing is transferring our HTML files to our web host (server). Hence the name, FTP (File Transfer Protocol). All of the files that make up our website will be transferred on to the server. Once the files are on the server, you can type in your domain name into your browser and you should be able to see your website.

Let’s look at a couple of screen shots that are on the FileZilla website. We will be looking at these screen shots through iframes.

Site Manager Screenshot

This screen shot shows us the site manager. This is where we will log in to our server. All of the ftp log in information should be provided by your web host.

In this example, we have a user that wants to connect to a computer that they have named “Website”. When the user selects “Website” from the left, all of “Website’s” login information is displayed on the right. All the user has to do is click on Connect and they will be connected to that particular computer.

Now say for instance you want to add a new web host to connect to; you would pretty much do the same.

You would enter the login information, click on New Site, and then name the connection. You would then see your new connection. Select it and click Connect. You should be connected to your host server.

Main Window Screenshot

Once we are connected to our server, we will see something similar to the above screen. Our computer is on the left (Local site) and the server is on the right (Remote site). From there on it is just a matter of selecting where your files are located at on your computer. Once you select the file you want, simply drag it to the right side (server) and you will see the upload progress on the bottom.

From there on all you have to do is just organize the folders and files the way you want them on the server.

Even though we took a look at a specific FTP software, all FTP programs are based on the same concept.