The video lesson on the instruction site shows the basics of downloading and installing a FTP Client and uploading files to your server. These notes cover the video lesson and specific details for members using the NZPCS Million Dollar Blueprint.

After you have completed your web-pages using your web-authoring program (we use NVU) you need to upload them to your server so they can be viewed online. To do this you need to:

• Sign up to a Webhost (if you haven’t already done so)
• Get FTP login information from your webhost (usually found in the webhost welcome eamil)
• Install a FTP Client Program onto your harddrive (several options listed below)
• Create webhost profile in your FTP Program (using FTP login information)
• Connect to the server
• Upload the files and folders of your site

FTP Client Software
There are a number of Free FTP Client Software Programs available on the web. I have made a list of some I Googled for you below.

Download the FTP Client of your choice and install the program

• FTP Surfer (used in instruction video)
• Filezilla
• SmartFTP (my personal favorite)
• CoffeeCup
• Free FTP Manager
• GoFTP
• Cute FTP
• GoldenFTP

Some are free-ware and others are free limited trials. All do basic FTP upload and download and the full paid versions have a few more options.
Everyone has their favorite so there is no right or wrong one to choose. Personally I like using SmartFTP. Try them all if you wish then settle on the one you like using. You can generally use the free version indefinitely and this version has everything you need. However for the trial versions you will be asked to upgrade every time you use it after your trial has run out. Only do this if you really like the program and have the spare cash to do so.

Setup Web-server Profile
Go to the email you received from your webhost and find the following information:
Your FTP Address: either ftp.yourdomain or ftp.yourserverIP
Your Username:
Your Password:
If you don’t have these details contact your webhost support
If you have a number of domains you can use the same FTPClient for all of them and set up a profile for each.

Connect to Server
click on connect button or go to file… connect… to log into your webserver and connect to it.

Understanding Server Layout and Directories
Your webserver is just another computer. It has a file and directory structure just like your PC. A little understanding of the file structure will help you to determine where you need to upload your website to.
A folder is a directory and a html file is a web-page. You can have folders and files within other folders (sub-directories and pages witin directories)

At the root directory of your server (ftp.yourdomain) you will find a number of folders:
.cpanel (if your webhosting uses cPanel)
public_ftp
public_html

(You may have others depending on your webhost)

The folder or directory we are interested in is public_html and this is the folder where you will be uploading your websites into.
In the MDB we will create our niche sites on sub-domains and will be using our main domain as a portal or gateway to our niche-sites. We set up the portal later on. For now you need to create a sub-domain using cPanel (you have already done this to create your work-from-home blog) and upload your niche site folders and pages into that folder (public_html/sub-domain)

Uploading your Website
It sometimes helps for you to think of your web-server as an extension of your PC when moving files, pages and folders from your PC to your server. So if you think of your FTP Client as Windows Explorer, the principles of moving files is the same. You drag the files you want to move or upload from the PC side of your FTP Client and drop then into the folder on your webserver where you want them to be. The only difference is the the FTP Client moves a copy of the files and the originals stay on your PC. Anytime you wish to make changes to your pages you edit them in your web-authoring program, save the changes and upload them again. The FTP Client will ask for you to overwrite the existing file to which you say yes and your web-page is updated.

If you have set up your website folder directories using the correct Silo structure (briefly covered in Lesson 4) you can just upload all the folders and pages as they are into the sub-domain directory for this niche site.

Not sure how to structure your niche-site silo?

Keep your eyes peeled for a future article about this.