Binary Net

If you have your files on your machine, and want to transfer them into your account, you can use any ftp client. For instance, the one that comes with Windows XP. You need to create a file on your computer, using any text editor, like notepad or an HTML editor. Call the created file index.html

As an option, if you are using an HTML editor, or have downloaded a Web publishing wizard, please follow the directions for the specific editor.

Let's try to create a simple web page.

Open Notepad, and type in the following lines:

<HTML>
<BODY>
This is my first home page!
</BODY>
</HTML>

Now, save this file as, for example, C:\TMP\index.html, or call it index.html in any other directory.

At the menu on thelower edge of your monitor screen, click Start/Run, in the text field type ftp ftp.yourdomain.com.

So, you need to run ftp. When you start it, the program will say something like

Connected to matrix.binary.net.
220 matrix.binary.net

User:

You will need to enter your user id at Binary Net. Then the server will ask you for your password, which you will also need to enter.

If your login was successful, the server will reply:

230 User yourid logged in.

Now you need to change the current directory to pubhtml:

ftp> cd pubhtml

And now you need to specify which type of file you want to upload on the server: text or binary. All HTML files are text files, all program sources are usually too, as opposed to images, executable programs and so on, which are binary.

Since we are going to transfer our index.html, which is a text file, we need a text transfer mode, which we engage by typing:

ftp> ascii

The server responds:

200 Type set to A.
ftp>

And at this point we are ready to transfer our index.html. We do so by typing:

ftp> put c:\tmp\index.html index.html

Server should respond with something like:

200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for index.html.
226 Transfer complete.
13372 bytes sent in 0.27 seconds (49.53 Kbytes/sec)
ftp>

Your first file in pure HTML is there, and everyone, who's on the Internet can see it! The only thing they should know about your web page is the web address, or URL (Universal Resource Locator). Yourdomain.com

Open up your page, you should see something different there now.

Of course, this is just an example of how to transfer files, there are many different ftp clients available and creating HTML documents is possible not only in Notepad, but also in specialized HTML editors, and even such programs as Microsoft Word.

This example is only an illustration how the process of creation of a web page works.

For further reference there are manuals about HTML, and text/HTML editors.

Please contact support@binary.net with any questions.