FTP Program Tutorial
First, download the file at http://software.visicommedia.com/en/products/aceftpfreeware/ and install the software on your computer.
Then open it up and you will see below:
What you want to do first is click the connect button which is right about the Log button, circled in green. This will then take you to the screen where the red circle is. There you can click on an existing site(ie. Empiresites) or click on New Site Profile. Since this is your first time, click on New Site Profile. This will take you to the box that says "New Site Profile Wizard" This is where you enter in your ftp info that your host gives you. See below:
Where I have "Empiresites" just put your site name. Anything descriptive. Then further down, fill in the "Server" box. I have www.empiresites.com . Just put in your site name that you own.
Then enter in your User Id and passworrd. This is what your host will give you. If you need hosting, contact us. Then I suggest putting a check next to "Save Password" and leaving "Anonymous" unchecked. Keep the Port at 21 also. Then when set, click "Next". You will then come to this screen:
Here, just enter "www" in local folder or leave blank. Then click "Finish" This will save your server info and profile. Then to connect to the server, go back up to the green circle in the first picture and click the "Connect" button. Then double click on your site and it will connect you if your user ID and password are correct. If you just bought the domain , sometimes it takes up to 48 hours for it to connect to your server, so it may not connect if that hasn't happened yet. If having problems, double check the info you entered.
Then you will see a screen like this:
The left side is your local files on your computer. The right side is the server, your site. If you see the green arrow o the right, it points to biuttons that perform actions on your server directory, like creating folders and renaming files. Place your cursor over the button and it will pop up what it does.
To transfer files to your server, hilite the files on the left you want to move to your site, as the blue arrow is pointing to. You should be hilighting all your files, including folders, the first time you upload the site. So you'd hilight from the Images folder on the left all the way down to the last file. Then with all that hilighted, press the right arrow button, that is circled by the blue circle above. This will transfer over the files to the server. It will not be instant, it will take a minute or so, depending on how many files.
You also can transfer files from the server back to your PC in the exact opposite manner.
That's it. You've just uploaded your files.