Using WS FTP LE

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The free space is for intended for personal non-business use only.
Riverside reserves the right to remove untasteful or illegal activities.

The first step in getting your own personal website is to write the page. There are literally hundreds of programs, books, and websites written that will assist you at this. Try entering "HTML" in any Search Engine (Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, Infoseek, etc.). Once you get the hang of HTML, you can even write it in Notepad if you wish. Or you can use programs such as FrontPage, FrontPage Express, MS Word, MS Publisher, and Netscape Composer. After you have your webpage written, it must be installed on Riversides webserver. First, you must let us know that you want to put your page online. Call us at 652-2562 or email personal_website@mail.riverview.net We can then set up an account on the server so that you can transfer the files directly to it. You will be using a special program called FTP. It is used to transfer files between computers across the Internet. Your Internet logon name and password will be used to gain access to Riverside's server.

Getting and installing WS_FTP

WS_FTP is a FTP Program. FTP is an acronym for File Transfer Protocol. WS_FTP can be downloaded by clicking here 646KB. This is the latest version of WS_FTP. We recommend WS_FTP32 because we are familiar with it. We may not be familiar enough with other FTP programs to provide technical support on them. Upon running the downloaded file, it will install itself and create a Shortcut in the Start-Programs Menu.

Connecting and Uploading Files to Riverside's Server

This is what you'll see when you fire up WS_FTP. The first thing we want to do is hit the New button.

Now you should see this screen.

Enter Riverview in the Profile Name box.
Enter home.riverview.net in the Hostname-Address box.
Now enter your dial-up username and password.
When done filling in all of the information click on the StartUp tab.

Now that you've clicked the StartUp tab, you should see this screen. In the box underneath Initial Local Directory enter C:\webpages or whatever you named the directory on your computer where you keep your webpages. Now click OK and it will connect to Riverside's web server. It may ask you to re-enter your password before completing the connection.

Now we see this window. The left half of the screen shows files on your computer and the right side shows files in your directory on Riverside's web server. These are the most common actions:

Uploading Files: Highlight a filename in the left side window and press the arrow button that points to the right. Once the file has finished uploading it will appear in the right side window. Once a file has been uploaded it can be viewed by people on the Internet.

Downloading Files: Highlight a filename in the right side window and press the arrow button that points to the left. You can use FTP to download your files, edit them, and then upload them back to Riverside's server.

Renaming Files: Highlight a filename in either of the side windows and press the Rename button. Then enter in the new filename. A common use for this is to rename your home page to index.html. If some enters your web address in thier browser, http://home.riverview.net/your_directory_name, Riverside's Web server will only automatically load your webpage if it is named index.html. If there aren't any files in your directory named index.html, your visitors will only see a directory listing that shows all of the filenames of the files that are in your directory.

Deleting Files: Highlight a filename in either of the side windows and press the Delete button to delete files from your computer or your directory on Riverside's Server. BE CAREFUL!! ONCE FILES ARE DELETED THEY ARE GONE FOR GOOD!!

When you're done point your browser to http://home.riverview.net/your_website_name and check out your work!

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