Hi, I don`t know whether this is the correct place to post this request but I am new to web authoring and would appreciate it if anyone could point me in the right direction for tutoring on FTP, directoties, root directories, folders etc. These inrelation to uploading. I am trying to use cutFTP. Thanks, Laurence
The first place to start is knowing how files are stored on your PC.
You have your C: harddrive and it's filled with folders. Within the folders are files. These files have extensions that are attached to the filenames, like .jpg .exe .doc You access the files (open them or save-as) by referencing the path using folders.
Example: c:\My Documents\My Pictures\myhouse.jpg
This is called a path. Notice how the folders are separated by a backwards slash.
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When you deal with the internet, it's all UNIX, so things change a little bit ... mostly in terminology.
"folders" (as on a PC), now become called "directories".
Directories "pathnames" are separated by forward slashes "/" instead of backwards slashes "\".
This becomes important when you start making webpages because you can create webpages on your PC without being on the internet. The file extension ".html" opens the file using your browser (Internet Explorer). If you create a webpage on your PC and reference other folders, you will be using a backwards slash "\". When you upload the files to the internet, those slashes need to be changed to forward slashes.
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You are using CuteFTP for uploading your files.
You will be selecting files from your PC Harddrive and sending them to the disk where your webpages are stored. This is a disk just like your harddrive, except paths are separated by forward slashes "/".
If you look at the address of this website at the top of your browser, you will see the domain name and various things separated by forward slashes "/" ... these are directories.
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Now after all of that ... here's the answer to your question:
You can search Google for:
HTML tutorial Beginning HTML FTP tutorial Making a web page
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On 8/03/05, Laurenceuk wrote: > Hi, I don`t know whether this is the correct place to post > this request but I am new to web authoring and would > appreciate it if anyone could point me in the right > direction for tutoring on FTP, directoties, root > directories, folders etc. These inrelation to uploading. I > am trying to use cutFTP. Thanks, Laurence
Laurence,
The first place to start is knowing how files are stored
on your PC.
You have your C: harddrive and it's filled with folders.
Within the folders are files. These files have extensions
that are attached to the filenames, like .jpg .exe .doc
You access the files (open them or save-as) ...See More