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Publishing Your Web Pages

Publishing is the process of uploading, or sending, your web pages to the TelstraClear Web servers to be made available for the rest of the internet world to see.

When publishing you will use the File Transfer Protocol. FTP is just a way of sending files (your web pages are just a type of file) across the Internet from one computer to another.

Once your web pages are received by TelstraClear they will be accessible to anyone with a connection to the internet.

You can use almost any FTP programme to upload your web pages. For those that aren't sure which one to use, two FTP programmes that help make publishing your pages easier are "CuteFTP" for Windows or "Fetch" for the Apple Mac.

Please note that this software is Shareware. This generally means you may use it free of charge for a short time to evaluate it's usefulness. If you decide to keep using the software after this time you must pay the registration fee to the software's author. Each programme has information about registration included.

Configuring & Publishing with CuteFTP (for Windows)

The following steps assume you have downloaded the programme and installed it successfully.

Start CuteFTP by double clicking on it's icon.
The FTP Site Manager screen should appear. In the Window on the left hand side, click on the folder labelled 'Personal FTP Sites'.

Click on the 'Add site' button.

In the 'Site Label' box type 'Web Site' (or the name of your web site, anything to identify your site).

In the 'Initial Remote Directory' box type '/doc/'

In the 'Host Address' box type the URL of your site as you set it up. For example if you have set up your web site under the domain name of shoerax.co.nz you would put 'www.shoerax.co.nz' as the 'Host Address'. This will determine which web site your pages get uploaded to.

In the 'User ID' and 'Password' boxes, enter the clear.net user id and password of one of the Webmaster accounts you have set up.

Note: If you did not set up a Webmaster when you created your web site, you will have to go and create one now.

Leave the other settings as they are.

Click on the 'Ok' button to save your changes.

If you have multiple web sites with clear.net, you may want to repeat the above steps for each web site you will be publishing to. You can bring up the 'Site Manager' at any time from the 'FTP' menu.
From the 'FTP' menu, select 'Settings' then 'Options... On the 'General' tab, fill in your e-mail address in the box labelled 'Mail Address. All the other settings can be left at their defaults.

Click on the 'Ok' button to save your changes.

Publishing with CuteFTP

Start CuteFTP by double clicking on it's icon.
The 'Site Manager' window will appear. Click on the 'Personal FTP Sites' folder if is not already highlighted in the left hand window.

Click on the site name that you want to publish to. This will the name that you created in the set up step above.

Click on the 'Connect' button. You should see some status messages in the upper window as you are connected. The lower left hand window are files and directories on your local hard drive and the lower right hand window are files and directories on the web site you have just connected to.
To publish your web pages, locate the directory where your web pages are located on your local hard drive in the left hand window. You can use the right hand mouse button in this window to access options such as creating a new directory, deleting files and various other things.

Create any directories you will require in the right hand window.

Select the files you want to upload by left clicking on the files (hold down the CTRL key to select multiple files) in the left hand window.

While holding down the left hand mouse button, drag the files to the appropriate directory in the right hand window and release the mouse button.

You will be asked to confirm the upload of your files. Click the 'Yes' button to proceed. The status bar at the bottom of the CuteFTP window will show the progress of the upload.
When the transfer is complete you can close CuteFTP. You should now check your web site using your web browser to make sure everything works as it should.

Configuring & Publishing with Fetch (for Apple Mac)

The following steps assume you have downloaded the programme and installed it successfully.

Start the programme by double clicking on it's icon.
A 'New Connection...' window will appear.

In the box labelled 'Host:' type the name of your web site as you set it up. For example if you have set up your web site under the domain name of shoerax.co.nz you would put 'www.shoerax.co.nz' as the 'Host:'.

In the 'User ID' and 'Password' box type the clear.net User ID and password of one of the Webmaster accounts you have set up.

Note: If you did not set up a Webmaster when you created your web site, you will have to go and create one now. Refer to the 'Professional Web Hosting - Main Menu' page for instructions.

Type '/doc/' in the box labelled 'Directory'.

Click the 'OK' button. Fetch will connect to your web site.
If you want to save this connection as a shortcut in Fetch (to make it easy to connect next time), click on the 'Customize' menu and then select 'New Shortcut'.

In the 'Bookmark Editor' window that appears, check the details are correct and then click the 'OK' button to save this as a shortcut. Next time you start Fetch, click on the down arrow labelled 'Shortcuts:' and select your web site from the list.

You can repeat the above steps for your other web sites if you have set up more than one.

Publishing with Fetch

Start Fetch by double clicking on it's icon.
The 'New Connection' window will appear.

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If you set up a shortcut while you were configuring Fetch, click on the down arrow labelled 'Shortcuts:'

Select your web site name from the list. Enter the User ID and Password, if they are not already in the appropriate boxes.

Click the 'OK' button.

Fetch will connect to your web site.

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If you did not set up your web site as a new shortcut during configuration, enter your web site name in the box labelled 'Host:' Type the clear.net User ID and password of the Webmaster User ID you have set up in the User ID and Password boxes.

Type '/doc/' in the 'Directory:' box.

Click the 'OK' button. Fetch will connect to your web site.
In the window that appears, you will see your web site and it's directories.

The easiest way to upload multiple files is to use the Finder to open the folder where your web pages are stored, select the files you wish to upload, then drag the files to the 'Fetch' window. This will upload all the files for you automatically.

Alternatively, you can use the 'Put File...' button to select a single file to upload. The Fetch window will show the status of the upload.
Once your upload is complete you can close Fetch.