upload your Web Pages
How Do I Get My Pages Live On The Web?

OK, you've created your own web pages, and you want the world to see them - how do you get them onto our web server, so everyone can look?

Using the FTP software that was supplied with your start up pack, you can upload your completed web pages to your own area of our web server, quickly and easily. Here's how....

If your pages don't seem to work properly, check that you haven't broken any of these rules:

  • The first page you wish people to see should be called index.htm
  • All your HTML files should have the extension HTML or HTM.
  • Only GIF and JPEG files can be used to represent pictures on the net.
  • Your web area is on a UNIX machine that is case sensitive - if you wish to reference a GIF file called picture1.gif calling it using PICTURE1.GIF will fail to work. Similarly if you try to link to a file called page3.html in your HTML when the file is actually called PAGE3.HTML, this will also fail.
  • If when uploading your pages the error message 'Disk space quota exceeded' appears this means that you have exceeded you allocated space on the Web server. As part of your start up pack you have a web page set up with 1Mb of web space if you encounter the above error you need to either delete files you don't need, or contact us to rent more web space.
  • Ensure that your files go into public_html, if they haven't nothing will have changed when you view your pages. Use the ftp software to move them into their rightful place.