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There seems to be lot of confusion about uploading a website in web design. This is especially true if you are newbie trying dabble in web design for the first time.
Really speaking uploading a web site is the easiest and last step in a web design process.
Uploading Your Website with FTP.
Once you've created your website, you're going to need to upload it to your web
server. The easiest and fastest way of doing this is using FTP.
What's FTP?
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It's a standard for transferring files
quickly and easily between computers, intended to allow computers with different
operating systems to exchange files without users needing to worry about the
different file systems they use. Compared to HTTP, transfers over FTP are very
reliable, meaning that your upload will not just fail without telling you, and
you can pause and resume any upload you start.
As mentioned earlier, FTPying is the easiest part on the entire gambit of your
web design. Even a school kid do this step flawlessly.
To connect to an FTP server, you need three things: the FTP server's address, a
username, and a password. Your web host should have provided these to you when
you opened your account, or you may also be able to create one yourself using
your website's cPanel. Check your host's help for more information.
Before you can use FTP, you need an FTP program. Luckily, you have quite a few
choices.
Internet Explorer.
What, Internet Explorer? Yes, IE actually has an FTP program built in. Just go
to your host's FTP server using a URL with ftp:// instead of http://, like this:
ftp://ftp.example.com. You will be asked to enter your username and password,
and then you'll be presented with a view of the files and folders on the FTP
server, just like if they were on your own computer! To upload files, all you
need to do is drag them from wherever they are now into this window.
So what's the problem? Why not just use IE for all your FTP uploading needs?
Well, unfortunately, the answer is that it isn't very reliable as an FTP
program: it works, but it's very slow, and won't automatically try things again
if it runs into errors. It also lacks a good way of telling you how far along
your uploads are or giving you much control over them – fine for uploading one
or two files, but not so great when it comes to uploading a whole website.
It's always best to go for a specialized FTP software. In fact, you must have a
program as a part your web design kit. Here are some good FTP programs for your
to try out.
CuteFTP.
CuteFTP ( www.cuteftp.com
), by GlobalScape, was one of the first useful graphical FTP programs for
Windows, and is still popular. It supports resuming, scheduling transfers in
advance and multiple transfers at once, and also has the useful feature of
allowing you to quickly edit files on the server using a built-in text editor.
It costs $40, or you can get a Pro version with more features for $60.
WS FTP.
WS FTP ( www.wsftp.com ) is
another old, established FTP program, but recently became a lot easier to use
than it used to be. Some useful features include its various wizards and
tutorials for doing common things, editing files on the server using any
software you like (a rare feature) and sorting options that let you find files
quickly. It also has special features to help you out with blogging and digital
photography. Cost: $60.
BulletproofFTP.
BulletproofFTP ( www.bpftp.com
) is an FTP client that does a lot of things automatically – it's clever when it
comes to handling common situations in a good way, where other FTP programs can
often do things you wouldn't want or constantly ask you to confirm things.
However, the interface is looking a little dated now, and it costs $30.
The three programs mentioned above seems to be the choice among web design
professionals. These FTP programs comes with many features that are designed
specially for web design professionals.
But it is not necessary that you have to use them! Your web design will not
suffer if you choose other FTP programs too. Here are some free FTP software's
mentioned.
SmartFTP.
SmartFTP ( www.smartftp.com
) is my personal favourite FTP program. Why? Well, it has a modern, easy-to-use
interface. It's updated often, and has almost all the features of the programs
above, as well as very good support for queuing, proxies, backups, and some
obscure things like chmod that you might need to do from time to time. Best of
all, although it costs $37 for business use, it's free for non-commercial or
personal users.
SmartFTP can be compared with CuteFTP in terms of features and it can added to
your web design tool box. You can simply drag and drop the files to your web
server and it will not affect your web design in any way.
FileZilla.
Finally, if you want a completely free and open-source FTP program, FileZilla (filezilla.sourceforge.net)
is worth a look. While the interface is simple and a little technical, it does
most things you would want it to do, and is surprisingly fast and stable. If you
want an easy to use program that doesn't hide anything for you, then you could
do worse than FileZilla – and hey, if you want it free, you don't have that many
choice.
We hope this article will help you in your web design efforts. More such
articles on web design in available on this site. Browse them freely.
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