Before copying (or "uploading") your web site to the Efficient Hosting servers, you will first need to create and test it on your local computer.
At Efficient Hosting there are basically two different methods you may use to create (and then upload) your site.
Firstly, there are a large number of software packages available which are designed to make designing and creating a web site as easy as possible for both beginner and expert alike. Many of these programs are available free of charge and some of the best are reviewed and rated at the Tucows shareware site.
Once you have created and tested your site locally using one of these programs, the next step is to upload it to our servers using FTP (File Transfer Protocol).
Nearly all web design programs, with the exception of Microsoft FrontPage, use FTP to upload your pages to the Internet. Some will have their own built in FTP program, whilst others will require you to use a separate, stand alone, FTP program to upload your web pages.
We recommend using either WS_FTP or Cute FTP when uploading your web pages, but any other FTP program may be used if you prefer.
An alternative to using an FTP program is to use our web based File Manager to upload your pages. However, the File Manager is best suited to uploading only a few pages at a time rather than an entire site, and to making minor updates to pages live online.
The second method of creating and uploading your web site is to use Microsoft FrontPage.
Again you can create and test your site on your local computer. When you are ready to upload your site to your account you should use the built in Publish feature of FrontPage, so no separate FTP program is necessary.
Microsoft FrontPage is particularly well suited to beginners, and allows the creation of a quality web site quickly and easily, without the need for HTML coding or any other specialised knowledge. There is also no need to use an FTP program to upload your site as a FrontPage site can (and should) be "published" from within the FrontPage application itself.
On the other hand, many more experienced web site designers consider FrontPage to be limiting and prefer to have more direct control over their web site code.
See Do you support Microsoft FrontPage? for more on using FrontPage at Efficient Hosting. |
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