Publishing your pages on the internet.
When you are satisfied with how everything looks on your homepage, you are now ready to
upload it to the internet. If your ISP (Internet Service Provider) allows you some space on
their server for your own homepage, you can use an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program
to upload your files. Some ISP's provide an FTP program with their other connection
software. If they do not, you can pick out either a Freeware or a Shareware program to
download from the TUCOWS
(The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software) website.
If your ISP does not provide you with space on their server for your own personal website,
then Geocities is one of the most user-friendly
places on the internet that provide free server space for websites. While you work your way
through Geocities' sign-up process, you will pick out an "address" from one of their "homes",
in one of their subject "neighborhoods". After you have filled out their application, your
password and new user information should be waiting in your mailbox within just a few
minutes. Your password will be something ambiguous and hard to remember, so you will
want to take their advice and go to their profile manager page and change it to something
easier to remember.
After that, go to their
file manager
page at and enter your username and password to get into their online file management program.
This is where you can use their EZ File Upload utility located toward the bottom of your
account's management page to upload all of your files into your directory with geocities
without having to have an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program resident on your computer.
