Uploading your Hosted Website

Creating your web page(s)
Create your web site and test it using whatever program you wish.

Once you have developed your web page on your computer, everything looks good and is working on your computer, you're ready to upload the files to our server. Until you do that, nobody will be able to see your website. Moving the Web pages you created from your computer to the server is achieved by using SFTP which is Secure File Transfer Protocol. If you do not have a SFTP program we recommend WINSCP for Windows, or FUGU for the Mac.

You'll need to supply your SFTP application with the following information:

Host or Server: User ID: Password: Directory Path:

web.kitcarson.net  your username  your password  not needed*

*You will be taken to the proper directory where you can then upload your files and create new folders.

Accessing your site on the web
Once your page is uploaded to your account, it can be accessed using a web browser at www.your domain.com

Things to look out for
Avoid any spaces in filenames; and remember that once it's been uploaded to the Unix server that case matters - in other words, "filename.html" will be seen as a different file than "Filename.HTML". 

These are the most common mistakes and easy to make since most desktop machines are case-insensitive and don't have a problem with spaces in filenames. 

Hints
Name the first file you want seen, "index.html" or "index.htm". This is the page that will be shown if someone requests your page.

Keep your image file sizes as small as possible. Most people don't have the patience to wait for a 200k full-screen JPG file, no matter how cool it is.