INSTRUCTIONS ON TRANSFERRING HTML DOCUMENTS
TO YOUR PERSONAL WEB SPACE USING FTP (File Transfer Protocol)



Once you have created your web page using an HTML editor, such as Notepad,
you must save it as a web page, using the .htm extension.
Create a temp directory on the c:\ drive and save your page and associated files in that directory.
Make note of filenames used.
Start a command prompt or DOS prompt.
For Windows95/98/ME - Click Start, Run, type command and click OK.
For Windows2000/XP - Click Start, Run, type cmd and click OK.
Change to temp directory - type cd\temp and press enter.

Now to transfer the files.
Type ftp 65.214.200.9 and press enter.
Type in the username assigned to you by FirstMile Technologies and press enter.
Type in the password assigned to you by FirstMile Technologies and press enter.
Type put filename.ext filename.ext and press enter.
---put is the command to transfer the file
---filename.ext is the name and extension of your web page files.
---the second filename.ext is the name assigned to the file on the web server.
Repeat for each file to be transferred to web server.

TYPE IN QUIT AND PRESS ENTER WHEN DONE!

Type in exit and press enter to close window.


To delete files from your web pages,
Log in using ftp as listed above.
Type dir to list files in your directory.
To change to a sub-directory, type cd directoryname and press enter.
To delete a file, type delete filename.ext and press enter.
---filename.ext is the name and extension of your web page files.

Note: Files cannot be recovered after deleting.

Note: Keep copies of files on your local computer. FirstMile will not backup user files.



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