How To Upload Your Personal
Web Page Using WS_FTP

Note:  Before you can upload a Web page, you must create it.  Web pages are files that are in "htm" or "html" formats.  If you are not familiar with creating "htm" or "html" files, we recommend obtaining a Web page editor.  You can obtain an editor from TUCOWS.  You may also wish to visit Internet Texoma's Web Site Information Page for tech tips and links to useful information on creating a Web site.

1.  Create your "htm" and/or "html" files.  Note: Your "Home Page" must be named one of the following:  "welcome.htm", "welcome.html", "index.htm" or "index.html".

2.  Connect to Internet Texoma as you normally do.

3.  Start WS_FTP.

4.  A "Sessions Properties" window will appear.

5. Slide your mouse pointer over the "New" button (to the right, above the "Delete' button) and single-click with the left mouse button.

6.  Slide your mouse pointer over the "Profile Name:" entry box (the white area to the right of the words "Profile Name:") and single-click with the left mouse button.  Type "Internet Texoma".

7.  Slide your mouse pointer over the "Host Name/Address:" entry box (the white area to the right of the words "Host Name/Address:") and single-click with the left mouse button.  Type "ftp.texoma.net" (NO CAPS / NO QUOTES)

8.  Slide your mouse pointer over the upside-down triangle (to the right of the "Host Type:" entry box) and single-click with the left mouse button. A drop-down selection will appear.  Refer to the image above for guidance if necessary.

9.  Slide your mouse pointer over "Automatic detect" and single-click with the left mouse button. Refer to the image above for guidance if necessary.

10.  Slide your mouse pointer over the "User ID:" entry box (the white area to the right of the words "User ID:") and single-click with the left mouse button.  Type your user name. Your user name is the first part of your e-mail address, i.e., username@texoma.net. Note: If this is a commercial Web site, you will enter "www.yourcompanyname" for a "User ID:".

11.  Slide your mouse pointer over the "Check Box" to the left of "Anonymous" and click with the left mouse button until there is not a check. Refer to the image above for guidance if necessary.

12.  Slide your mouse pointer over the "Password:" entry box (the white area to the right of the word "Password:") and single-click with the left mouse button.  Type your e-mail password. Refer to the image above for guidance if necessary.

13.  If you wish to save your password to this profile, slide your mouse pointer over the "Check Box" to the left of "Save Pwd" and click with the left mouse button until there is a check. Refer to the image above for guidance if necessary.

14.  Slide your mouse pointer over the "Apply" button (lower right corner, in-between "Cancel" and "Help") and single-click with the left mouse button.

15.  Slide your mouse pointer over the "OK" button (lower left corner, to the left of  "Cancel") and single-click with the left mouse button. (The "Session Properties" window will disappear.)

16.  The window is split in half (left and right side).  On the left side is the local system (your computer).  On the right is the remote system (our server).

17.  Slide your mouse pointer over the "ChgDir" button for the local system (in the middle) and single-click with the left mouse button. An "Input" window will appear.

18.  Type the path to your "Htm" and/or "html" files (i.e., c:\My Documents\Web Pages).

19.  Slide your mouse pointer over the "OK" button (upper right corner, above "Cancel") and single-click with the left mouse button. The "Input" window will disappear and your "htm" and/or "html" files will be visible in the large white area on the local system side. Note: If you are uploading a commercial Web site, please skip instructions #20 - #23 and proceed to step #24.

20.  For your Web page to work properly, you need to create a directory on the remote system.  Slide your mouse pointer over the "MkDir" button for the remote system (on the right) and single-click with the left mouse button. An "Input" window will appear.

21.  Type "public_html". (NO CAPS / NO QUOTES)

22.  Slide your mouse pointer over the "OK" button (upper right corner, above "Cancel") and single-click with the left mouse button. The "Input" window will disappear and a new directory will be visible in the large white area on the remote system side.

23.  Slide your mouse pointer over the directory icon (the yellow folder) and double-click with the left mouse button. The remote system will change to the "public_html" directory.

24.  On the local system, slide your mouse pointer over the files you wish to upload to your Web page and single-click with the left mouse button. Note: You can highlight more than one file by holding down the "Control" key on the keyboard while you single-click on the files.

25.  Slide your mouse pointer over the button (in the middle) and single-click with the left mouse button. The files will be copied to your "public_html" directory on our server. Note: Commercial Web sites will have the files placed directly in their commercial directory on our server.

26.  After the copying is complete, slide your mouse pointer over the "Close" button (lower left corner) and single-click with the left mouse button. The connection to "ftp.texoma.net" will be terminated.

27.  Slide your mouse pointer over the "Exit" button (lower right corner) and single-click with the left mouse button. (WS_FTP will close.)

28.  To view your Web page, open your browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, etc.) and enter the address "http://home.texoma.net/~username". (NO QUOTES)  Replace the word "username" with your user name, as in step 10 of these instructions. Note: Commercial Web sites will enter the company name instead of "~username".