Downloading your FTP program

1. Go to FTP Planet Download Page, and download the trial version.
2. You can choose to download to a floppy disk or to your hard drive.  This download should take no more than a few minutes.

Setting up your FTP program and making a shortcut

1. From the Start menu, choose "Run."
2. Select "Browse" and find the WS_FTP exe file.   If you put it on your hard drive, it will be in Program Files.  (You may have to use the "Find" function of Windows Explorer to find it.)
3. Run the WS_FTP exe file.  This will "unpack" the file and install it on your computer in  Program Files.
4. Create a shortcut to your FTP program by right clicking your mouse in a blank spot on your desktop.
5. Choose "New " from the pop-up menu and select "Shortcut."
6. Choose "Browse," and go to the "C" drive.   Click on Program Files and open the folder labelled "WS_FTP."
7. Choose WS_FTP exe and click on "Open."
8. Click "Next," and  then "Finish" when the next screen appears.
9. The shortcut will appear on your desktop.

Running your FTP program

1. Click on your shortcut.
2. A "Session Profile" dialog box will pop up.
3. Leave the  "Profile Name" blank."
4. Use the Tab key to move down to the "Host Name" field.
5. Type in 137.125.248.24
6. The "Host Type" field should read "Automatic Detect.
7. Uncheck "anonymous login" and type your user name in the "User ID" field (Your username is the same as your Blackboard username).  Use all lower case letters or the system will not recognize you.
8. Uncheck " Save Password" if it is checked.
9. Click on "Apply;" then click on "Okay."
10. You will be prompted for your password; type your password *in all lower case letters and numbers.*   The Linux system is case sensitive. If you use the wrong case, it will not recognize you.
11. A box will pop up with your computer files showing on the left and the server files which you have permission to enter on the right.

Putting your web pages on the server

1. Double click on the "Public HTML" folder.  You will see a file named "index.html."  This is your current web page -- a generic page put up by our data base manager when he opened your account for you.
2. If the file you want to make your web page is already named "index.html," skip the next step.
3. Highlight the file on your computer that you want to make your web page; click on "rename" and change your filename to "index.html (Don't use quotation marks, and don't use capital letters.)
4. Go to the files on the server and highlight "index.html;" click the delete button and say "yes" when the dialog box asks whether you want to delete the item.
5. Go back to the files on your computer and highlight "index.html;" click on the arrow pointing to the right.
6. You have successfully transferred your file and now have a web page.
7. Your address is: http://snyfarvu.farmingdale.edu/~yourusername.
8. If you put pictures in your web page, you may have to send the pictures to the server.  You send the pictures to the server the same way you sent your index page.

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