Ferny-Dust ~ V.10 Coffee Shop

Using FTP

To understand this tutorial, you need HTML knowledge.

I'll be using FileZilla, you can download it from here. Once it's been installed, open the program and you will have something like this (You'll see some numbers on the screenshot, I'll explain them later):

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You'll see this bar:

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Host: Your host will give you a url like: ftp.YOURHOST.com/.net/.info/whatever. Fill that area with the url.
Username: Your host will give you this as well.
Password: Fill it with your password.
Port: Your host will give you the port too.

Once you've succesfully logged in, lets get started. Create a new folder @ your computer desktop. Mine is called "mysite". Place all your pages and folders here. An important fact about FileZilla is that you can't edit your pages once they've been added to FileZilla, you'll have to edit the from the folder you've just created and replace them (by uploading the page again). Now lets go back to FileZilla.

As seen on the 1st screenshot, FileZilla has 4 windows that we'll be using.

The 1st window: It shows you all the folders you have in your computer.
The 2nd window: Shows you all the folders you have in your site.
The 3rd window: If you click any folder from the 2nd window, the folder will open in here, and will show all the content of that folder.
The 4th window: If you click any folder from the 1st window, the folder will open in here.

Example:

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As you can see, I clicked the "mysite" folder on window 1 and all the content appeared on window 4. And I clicked the "graphics" on window 2, and all the content appeared on window 3.

You are new to FileZilla, so you won't have any files on windows 2 & 3. To start uploading your pages to your ftp account, look for your folder on window 1, once you've found it, click it and the content will appear on window 4. Select all the content, right click and select "upload". Your files will start uploading on window 3. And we are done uploading.

To create a new directory/folder, right click on the folder on window 2 and click "create directory". If you want to upload new pages inside this directory/folder, click the directory/folder you have just created, it will be empty. You are now ready to start uploading your files. If you want to link any file from other directories/folders you must link them as: http://yoursite/directory/page.htm (or any format you use).

To edit a page, you'll have to edit it from the original folder, in my case, I'll have to edit it from the "mysite" folder, once you have finished, go to FileZilla, look for the page on window 4, right click > "upload". A new window will appear:

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Just click "ok" and the new page will replace the old one.