It’s thrilling to finally publish your work to the web, imagine the whole world can now view it. For most beginners, the step of uploading that content to your hosting server seems to involve some magic. Don’t worry, this step is incredibly easy, once you understand what’s going on.
The first thing you will need is your Emily Carr FTP login information. FTP just stands for File Transfer Protocol. It’s just how files are transferred over the internet. You don’t need to know any more than that. The good news is it’s the same as your Emily Carr username and password.
The FTP client program will allow you to connect to the FTP server on your web hosting account. Let me suggest some great, free FTP clients:
Fetch – This program is what is installed on the Macs in the university and you can download a free 30 day trial here
FileZilla – A great program with a great name. I know many people using this FTP program. It’s easy to use, and multi-platform. Download here
CyberDuck – Here’s another free option for Os X and it looks like it will be available for Windows very soon too. Download here.
A note about File Management
Typically, I’ve noticed that students are not very organized when it comes to managing their files. This can become a huge problem when it comes to publishing files to the web that are not in the right place. Because your html files link to other html files and images files they need to be moved together in the exact same file structure. That is why I suggest using my recommended file structure. You’ll notice the web folder contains all the files that need to be moved to your web hosting server and the source folder contains the files that will not be moved to the server.
The only thing you’ll need to do is move the contents of your web folder to a folder in your pub_html folder.
Test to see if your sites has been published by going to the following URL:
http://www.ecuad.ca/~yourusername/yourprojectname
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