1c. Putting your Page Online

Once you've written your webpage, you'll need to put it where other people can see it. That was your intent to begin with, wasn't it, you little exhibitionist?

Unless you're using a text editor to write your file directly into the destination directory, you'll need some means of getting it there. This usually means an FTP client (which stands for File Transfer Protocol). For Windows, you can use WS FTP LE, which does the job quite nicely and is free if you say you're student or something; for Mac, use Fetch. If you're writing it on a UNIX system and need to copy it, use scp (which stands for Secure CoPy) (for more info, do `man scp`).

Connect to your server -- the computer hosting your domain, or your big sister's domain, or your school's domain -- using your login name and password. You will be prompted for these.

It's usually pretty straightforward from here to transfer your files to where they're going. You usually just highlight the filename of the page you've written on your computer, go into the destination directory on your server's computer, and hit "transfer" or a little arrow or something. And voilą!

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