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FTP
When you have written your pages and designed your images, if you want them, you now need an ftp program. Ftp stands for File Transfer Protocol, in other words, a standard for transferring files over the Internet.
One ftp program which can be used with windows is called WS_FTP LE, and can be downloaded from FTP Planet.
With WS_FTP LE you also have access to an online manual and help. The WS_FTP homepage can be found at Ipswitch.com.
This version is only for personal and non-commercial use, if you wish to use WS_FTP commercially you will need to download Ipswitch.com.
Windows 95 also has a built in ftp program, ftp.exe, in the windows directory. To start it, go to Run... from the Start menu and type ftp in the dialog box.
For those of you who use Macs, you can get Fetch, the best Mac ftp program, from Fetch Softworks.
Download the program, and then unpack it ready for use. Have a look at the documentation that comes with it to make sure you understand how the program works. Now you are ready to transfer the files.
In your ftp program, the remote hostname or address you want to connect to is homepages.karoo.net. The username or user ID is your username, and the password is the same as for your dial-up account.
For the HTML files, which will all be just text, you want to transfer them in ascii mode. Images should be transferred in binary mode (note to Mac users - you cannot transfer them as mac-binary).
You can now go to your web-browser, and simply put in the URL http://www.username.karoo.net/ and see your pages. If anything doesn't work, you can check why by looking through your page to see if you have typed something wrong.
Netscape for FTP
It is possible to upload your files using Netscape, although this is not recommended. In the location bar enter ftp://username:password@homepages.karoo.net, replacing username and password with your given username and password, and press return.
You can now select Upload File from the File menu, select the file you want to transfer from your hard drive, and it will upload it for you. Netscape will then update the directory listing, so you can see the file has transferred correctly.
The main problem with this route is that as it occasionally seems to change file names into all upper case (for PC users), you may have to change your links from lower case (as stated above) into upper case, so using a separate ftp program seems to be advisable at this time. You also cannot rename or delete files you have uploaded.
