Critical Steps To Online Success - Launch Your First

Website-Upload to your FTP site

If this is your first website you'll want to keep it pretty simple for now…just an "Opt-in Page" and a "Download Page". You can add more later, but right now we want to get you on the road.

If you're ready to upload your pages to your site, then by now you will need to have designed your pages, tested the links, tested your Opt-in form with your autoresponder, selected and registered your "Domain Name", chosen and registered with a Hosting Service Provider (such as GoDaddy or Host Gator etc), opened your Hosting Account and finally tested and found that your site is now live and ready to have pages uploaded.

If you are working with GoDaddy (which I do because that's where I started and I like it) and you built your webpage with Dreamweaver or a simple HTML Editor you can simply use Windows Explorer (the Windows file manager program).

You open your FTP website in MS Internet Explorer (note: it has to be IE for this to work-you can't use Firefox here).

Remember to use the "FTP" prefix instead of the usual "HTTP":

Eg: "ftp://your-own-domain-name-goes-here.com"

All you have to do now is copy and paste your files from your hard drive to the server directory and you're done. If you have created your web pages using "Microsoft Front Page" it's a bit more complex. You need to use some FTP (File Transfer Protocol) software to upload your files. It's a quite a bit more hassle to upload (we call it FTP) your files to your site.

If you can, I recommend finding other web creation software to work with (that's just my personal preference…you may love it). Front Page may be easy to create pages with but I've found it to be much more annoying when you want to edit your site files and directories.

This process with Front Page involves quite a bit of detail so I'll treat it in a later article.

Keep on winning

Regards

Jim

SUMMARY

If this is your first website you'll want to keep it pretty simple for now…just an "Opt-in Page" and a "Download Page". You can add more later, but right now we want to get you on the road. You've chosen and registered your domain name and now you want to get your site up on the web. Here's what you do...

KEYWORDS

website, hosting, ftp, upload files, godaddy, host gator, autoresponder, firefox, internet explorer

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Jim Keayes is an expert Internet Marketer. He coaches internationally in how to build successful Home Based Businesses Online. You can visit his website at: http://homebasedbusinessontheweb.com/