With your Windows computer, you have a program called Windows Explorer that lets you organize your files into folders and subfolders. You can create folders on the C drive of your computer, giving them names that are easy to recognize and can save files inside those folders. Folders can also be created within folders, called subfolders, to further organize your files. Once you have created your web pages for your site, they should be stored on your computer, inside a folder. Each page should have a filename that ends with the extension [.html]. Filenames cannot have spaces nor special characters if they are to be used for a web site. You can use hyphens or underscores to separate words. For example, you might have web site files named:

index.html
aboutus.html
contactus.html
services.html
member-directory.html

Since the way you store your website files on your computer should exactly mirror the way they are stored on the web server, we recommend you create a new folder named the same as your account username on your computer's desktop. Simply right click on the desktop with your mouse, choose "New", then "Folder", and name the folder what your username is. Open your new folder with Windows Explorer and right click inside to create a subfolder called "public." You will save all of the individual files that make up your web site inside the public subfolder. If your web site has lots of images, you might want to create a subfolder inside the public folder called "images" and store them there. You may organize your web site any way you want, so long as all files that are to display on the Web are inside the public folder or one of its subfolders.

There is already a folder named with your username on the web server. That is where all your web site's files will be located. It was automatically created when your Hosting Plan was setup. Inside your username's folder are subfolders named cgi-bin, logs, private, and public. When someone types, http://webhostinghelps.com/'yourusername', in the address bar of their browser, the browser connects to the public subfolder and looks for a file named, index.html. The index.html file will be the default homepage of your web site, just as soon as you put it inside the public subfolder.

How to get and use an FTP program.

1. Go to http://www.coreftp.com
2. Click the "Download Core FTP now" link in the middle of the page
3. Click one of the 3 download links under "Core FTP LE 1.3c: free version." Download and save the installation file to your computer.
4. Double click the downloaded .exe file to install the program on your computer.
5. Double click the Core FTP icon on your desktop to start the program
6. In the Site Manager window, enter the following information to create your FTP site:
   Site Name: Any word can go here, such as "website" (no spaces, but may user underscores or dashes) Host/IP/URL: yourdomain (webmasterhelps.com or webhostinghelps.com) Username: yourdomain (webmasterhelps.com) or your email address (username@webhostinghelps.com) Password: your WebHelps password (case-sensitive)
   [leave all other settings at their defaults]
   
7. Click Connect
8. In the left pane will be a list of all the folders on your computer's C: drive. In the right pane will be a list of all the folders in your web site's folder on the server.
9. Find the file(s) in the left pane that you want to upload to one of your web site folders, by clicking the folders to open
10. In the right pane, locate the folder you want to upload the files into by clicking to open.
    For example, if you want to upload into the EasyStore Maker images folder, open the Public folder, then open the StoreMaker folder, then open the Images folder.
11. Click on the file in the left pane that you want to upload. To make multiple selections, hold down your Ctrl key and click on multiple file names.
12. Click the blue right-pointing arrow just above the list of folders/files in the left pane. You will see your files transfer into the selected folder on the server.
13. To download a file from a folder on the web server, select the file in the right pane, select the location you want to download the file into in the left pane, then click the blue left-pointing arrow just above the list of folders/files in the right pane.
14. To delete a file or folder on the web server, select the file/folder in the right pane, then click the "X" button above the list of folders/files in the right pane. You will be asked to confirm your desire to delete the file. Click "Yes" to delete, click "No" not to.
15. To make a new directory (folder) on the web server, first select the location (directory) you want the new directory to be created in by double-clicking to open folders and/or using the "Up One Level" button (blue arrow inside a while folder icon) to go back in the file tree. Then, click the yellow file folder button just above the list of folders/files in the right pane. Type a name for the directory and click OK.

    If you lose your connection, first try clicking the resume connection button (small blue arrows icon) above the list of folders/files in the right pane. If you cannot reconnect, click the quick connect button (navy blue lightening bolt icon), fill in your FTP site information if required, and click the Connect button.

    To end your connection, click the Disconnect button (small red arrows icon) above the list of folders/files in the right pane.