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Setting Up Your Personal Web Site
geeksnet offers 10MB of FREE personal space to
our dial-up users. To set up your personal web space click
here to fill out the form and submit it to geeksnet...
Then follow the instructions below to upload and access your site.
File Transfer Protocol
So, you've created a web page and
you want it show it to the world. To get your web page from your
computer to your server you will need an FTP Client. An FTP Client
is used to move files across the internet from one location to another,
we recommend WS_FTP
LE for Windows Users and Fetch for Macintosh users. This
short tutorial covers uploading your web page with WS_FTP and assumes
that you have downloaded and installed it.
Once WS_FTP
LE has been started you will probably be looking at a
window similar to the one shown above. This window holds all the
information necessary to connect to the server. The "Profile Name"
at the top is simply the name of the session, it can be anything.
Host Name/Address is www.geeksnet.com. The "User ID" is your user
id and your "Password" is (surprise!) your password. Is this all
there is to it? Yes, when you press the "OK" button you will be
connected to the server and will probably be looking at a screen
somewhat similar to the one below.
This window is split into two columns:
one on the left, and one on the right. The left column represents
the files on your computer and the right column represents our server.
Using the ".." file in the left column navigate yourself to the
folder which you stored all of your web files.
In the left column select all the
files you wish to upload, you may hold down the key to select them
individually or the key to select a group of them. Once selected
press the "->" button to send them to the server. Once they are
on the server, they should be viewable by the world.
Please note: Web space provided by geeksnet is for personal use. Advertisement
of or solicitation for business constitutes a business web site and
will be billed accordingly. If you would like a business web site,
please refer to:
http://www.geeksnet.com/web/web_develop.htm
or contact our Sales
Department.
The URL address of your home page is...
http://personal.geeksnet.com/username
Where username is your username.
You may add additional pages to your home page by creating additional
HTML files and providing links to them, or structure your home page
into sections by creating subdirectories in your www
directory.
Each HTML file must have the .html or .htm extension. All other
files must have the appropriate extension describing what type of
file they are (.gif for GIF format graphics files,
.jpg or .jpeg for JPEG format graphics
files, .au for Sun audio files, etc.).
The full URL address of any given file is...
http://personal.geeksnet.com/username/path/file.ext
Where username is your username, path
is the path of subdirectories (if any, relative to your www
directory), and file.ext is the full filename (which
defaults to index.htm if unspecified).
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