In the previous lesson, I showed you how to build a web page using HTML. But that page isn’t going to do you a whole lot of good if it’s not on the web, is it?
So let’s learn how to upload it to the web…
(Watch this video…)
Main points:
You can download a free FTP client at: http://filezilla-project.org
(see demo on video)
You can “drag and drop” files directly from your computer onto your website.
Action step:
1) Upload at least one page to your site using FTP.
Note: the file should be named index.html if you want it to appear as the home page of your website. (Or index.htm, index.php, etc)
In the next lesson I’ll begin showing you some tools you can use to make your website look nice.
As always, you are welcome to post your questions and comments below 🙂
Have a great day!
I was able to connect to my website by putting in appropriate info and do the quick connect. That worked great. I dragged my index2.html file into the the public_html file of the root directory and that worked. I then typed in infrastructurehealing.com into my address bar of a new web browser and it did not work. I got the following:
Index of /
* .ftpquota
* cgi-bin/
Apache/2.2.10 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.10 OpenSSL/0.9.8i DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at http://www.infrastructurehealing.com Port 80
I do not know what I did wrong. Any Suggestions? One concern I had was in my public_html file I did have a file with an IE logo called default.html. Not sure how it got there because I have never had my website up. I am using hostgator that you recommended.
Thanks Mark
Hi Eric, thank you very much for your online, very powerful and FREE lessons. I am following your each every lessons.
I want to have your valuable opinion. As you said in lesson19(choosing a niche), the niche could be my interested topic or completely NEW topic. I have choose a topic which is partially my interested and also a new topic for me. I have surveyed my niche also. It has huge market and people are not satisfied with their current available resources so I want to fill this gap by my info product.
I have read your book about Info product in 30 days and got some very valuable information. But still I am finding hard to create my content.
I know you are going to cover each and every thing in this course but I think you will take your time to upload the further lessons(I can understand your situation).
So, can you please suggest me any course which is as simple and as basic as you are running, preferable yours or some of your reference.
I really want to thank you for your awesome teaching. Your course made me to take decision about my online business. And its my pleasure that I am learning from such a great person.
Thank you very much in advance for your guidance.
I am eagerly waiting for your reply. 🙂
Sohan Negi(India)
P.S. I’ll make you proud Eric really so!!!
I can only think of 2 possible explanations…
1) Perhaps you inadvertantly dropped it in the wrong folder. If it was in there, you should see it.
2) If you had previously connected to your site using MS FrontPage, there is a slight chance you may have corrupted the file structure. FrontPage users should stick to FrontPage and not use FTP, and vice versa.
That’s a good question. The problem is most people are focused on teaching tactics, and not the core elements of setting up an information business. I know of a good course, but it is $1500. If you let us know what area of content you are having trouble developing, maybe myself or someone else can offer some advice…
I did not put it in the wrong folder.
I have never used MS FrontPage.
I have never had my site online before.
Any other suggestions.
Thanks Mark
Thank you very much for replying Eric.
I have chosen my niche as “Degenerative diseases” like Diabetes, BP, Heart Attack, Cancer and all that. My planning is to release a series of ebooks in which I will uncover some very important secrets about these diseases. And I am going to answer some very important questions like for example for diabetes “how to control diabetes with diet adjustments”, “Natural cure for diabetes”, “Diabetes supplements”, “how to cut down insulin and reduce blood sugar” etc…
I thing you got the idea. Please guide me to setup a very strong information business related to my niche.
Thanks in advance.
Sohan(India)
Hi Eric,
Thanks so much for the great info. and instructions as usual…I appreciate every video so much! I have a quick question if you didn’t mind. I’m trying to do a couple things at the same time…create my own products with your help and also dabble with affiliate marketing. There are so many training courses on affiliate marketing as well…is there one training course(in your opinion) that stands out the best for trying to learn affiliate marketing? Thanks Eric and…
Happy Holidays to You and Your family,
Gary
I found my problem. My website address is a ad on domain with Hostgator. Because of that how you sign in to FileZilla is different.
Through this process I am understand more how things work rather than just memorizing the steps.
May do the other type of account with Hostgator because each domain has its own cpanel. Makes more sense for a newbie if I have more than one domain
Hey Eric,
Wow, lesson 29 was great everything work great except one thing, when I went to view the webpage after uploading the html file into the filezilla which by the way is very cool! but the web page had a similar problem as Mark but when I clicked on one of the links that were on the page, then the file showed up correctly but again I had to open the page and then click on one of the things that was there I forget exactly what it was but when I did then it showed the page.
With this said I’m still very happy with what I learned in this lesson and want you to know how much I appreciate all your help.
Hey Eric,
This is what happens when I load the website:
Index of /
cgi-bin/
nick/
text.html
Apache/2.2.10 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.10 OpenSSL/0.9.8i DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at http://www.hostgogator.com Port 80
It brings up the page when I click on: text.html
I would also like to know how to install a link onto the page.
Thank you,
Nick
Got my site up and running,thx!!!
http://www.valentinorossivideo.com
Hi Eric, thank you very much for your Tips, very powerful and FREE lessons. I am following your each every lessons.I agree with all the way.
Thanks again.
Dindin
Hi Eric,
Filezilla looks great.
Thanks for that I have just downloaded to my computer and look forward to using
Rich
Hi Eric, I am glad to see the lesson come out. I wish I had it before I uploaded my page I now know what I did wrong with filezilla. However the online support staff at host gator was very good and corrected it for me. Thanks again for your lessons. I hope we get to ecover creation soon as i have been struggling with that since the last lesson came out i already have the book written now need an ecover and well you know the rest.
Mark rename the index2.html to index.html and is should work ok. By default most hosts will look for index.html or default.html Their are ways of using another name but I will nor confuse the issue. So in brief your ‘Home Page’ needs to be called index.html
Eric thanks for the course I will be trying to get my 10 year old Grandson interested, he’s already into writing simple games. I f i get him to bite then I will buy him a domain name!
Thanks Tony….Melbourne Australia
I have always been adding cubit to my knowledge each time I go through the articles and lessons here good work Eric!
Bless you Eric!!!! I have looked for this everwhere….I finally have it thank you ever so much.
Happy Holidays all
Mark, Index2.html certainly never reached your root directory because I had a look. You may have moved it to one of the folders by mistake. Firstly, make sure you move the file to any white space on the screen and not directly over a folder. Secondly, NEVER use index2 or any name for that matter, other than those listed below for your home page. Only use index.html, index.htm or index.php depending on the code you’re using. You may use default.php or default.html but I don’t recommend it.
By using index.html (htm,php) you will not only direct a visitor to the home page, you will also ensure that the remainder of your root directory is protected. The file name index.whatever is like a padlock. Without it, people will see your site’s full file structure.
Good luck.
Also, if anyone needs a free web site, please go to http://at3host.com and contact me by email from there. Don’t sign up until you contact me.
Another great lesson! I learned a lot from it, in my case, not so much WHAT you teach, but HOW you teach, that’s reason #1 why I follow your lessons.
A huge problem for experts often is, that they can’t walk in the shoes of the ones they want to teach, they can’t remember, how it was, when they were newbies. These guys are not teachers, but smart asses, many of them writing useless IM courses, ebooks, tutorials and stuff: Follow these simple 10 steps and get rich like me, a 4th grader could do it … Such a bs, when you have no idea, what you are doing there. If a Guru makes 10 steps and you do EXACTLY the same steps, the results will be VERY different, I bet.
So you are a genius teacher, and you know, where you came from, a rare TALENT to fascinate listeners.
BTW: My tools are Dreamweaver and all these Macromedia and Adobe thingies. Maybe you should mention in your lesson, that as soon as you understood and applied the basics, you should reduce workload with the best tools available. But I would not recommend to start off with Dreamweaver, in case you mess up, you have no idea, how to fix it, because when you read the help files, you have no idea, what they are talking about, when you don’t know the basics.
For the backup upload it’s great to know for newbies, that this is possible, but important to know, that uploads compared to downloads are terribly slow and no viable way to save larger files. Excitedly waiting for your lesson about backups, should be asap! Regarding backups I’m a paranoic, wonder, what you will recommend? I have 2 external HD, some DVDs and Acronis True Image, and still have nightmares about losing data.
Inspired by your video lessons, I wrote an ebook “Internet Marketing Grundlagen” (I’m German) and embedded a video on the salespage, influenced by your presentations:
http://www.internetmarketinggrundlagen.info/affiliates.php/7269
Thanks for your help Eric!
Sohan, There is no short cut but you may have 2 choices.
1)A book such as the ‘Teach yourself’ or ‘Dummy’ Guides.
2)I see you are with Host Gator if you log in to your ‘CPANEL’ and click on ‘Fantastico’ you can install Joomla or WordPress which do most of the work for you. I use Joomla (click my name to see my site) Its called a CMS Content Managemnt System and a very good book is available from Barrie M. North ‘Joomla A Users Guide’ ISBN-10 0-13-613560-9.
Wordpress is different both have good websites where you can read the manuals etc. You will quickly find that these Applications make it very easy with out getting down into HTML and they are Free! Fantastico can uninstall as well as Install so you can try each out. Each one uses 1 Database. You can have both installed just enter a directory/folder name during the install process such as ‘wp’ for wordpress or ‘joomla’ to get to each just add folder name to the end of the URL yoursite.com/wp or yoursite.com/joomla you could then have a simple home page with 2 links one to each location Eric may cover how to add a link to your Home Page later.
If you visit my http://echoshack.com this is Joomla Site, you will also find a menu link to my (rather empty)Blog if you hover mouse over the main menu links and look in the status bar of your browser you will see echoshack .com /joomla/xxxyyy or echoshack .com /wp/xxxyyy I have each Application is a seperate folder.
On your CPanel you can create a re-direct so that anyone typing your URL will automatically be directed to the correct folder/application (thats for another day)
I am also on http://twitter.com/echoshack
Hope this helps
Tony
Thanks for your email course, wished I had saved them as I lost some of them, been ill for a couple of months but feeling better. Thanks as your emails are interesting.
if you’re trying to write an ebook for your customers, I would suggest writing the outline first, than from there, write a basic script for an audio going more in depth as to what sub-topics you want to cover, but don’t write out what you want to say word for word, but do make the bullet points detailed enough so that what you want to say about that topic. If you need help with anything else, click the link above to twitter me and I’ll give you my email address than, I don’t want to give it out here because I don’t want just anybody emailing me.
Thanks,
Ben
PS
If your concerned about how the audio will turn out, I can easily fix up the audio for you in Soundbooth, even if there are alot of ums and ahs, I can take them out to make it more professional. I can also work with you to help you figure out what you want, but I’ve found that most of my ideas come from my mouth, than gets onto paper (or typed up), not the other way around, so even if all you do with the audio is have it transcribed and make an ebook out of the transcription, you will still get alot more information out of that than trying to get it all on paper without doing the audio. I’ve tried dozens of times to create content without doing an audio first and it’s frustrating because you don’t know where to start. If you only focus on bullet points than record an audio from those bullet points, your content will come much quicker (I know this because when I blog and “think aloud”, I usually get it done much quicker than if I don’t think aloud)
Only real success is the security website and a bit of google ads on a website, so hopefully one day I can find my niche. Thanks for your email course.
I have build my own website recently and would like to share with all of you.
Thanks Mr Eric, it is not as difficult as it seems
Hi Eric,
Great lesson as always. I use the admin panel for simple uploads but find that Filezilla is much better. At first it was a little intimidating because I was afraid of making mistakes and messing up my website. I like to keep a copy of all the web page files stored locally on my computer.
Your last lesson was helpful because it made me play with html a little. I always used the visual editor but you don’t learn that way.
I recently started a blog and had a database problem and could not get into the admin panel. If I had not played and learned a little about using FTP with Filezilla I would have been in trouble.
I was actually able to upgrade to WordPress 2.7 and restore the database. Of course I had help from Google search for getting instructions on how to do it
my site are
http://www.profitlance.ca (first web page I ever designed) more to come
http://www.reachsuccessonline.com
Hi Mr Eric,I am a daily reader of your Tips, it is really great, about the online business I have really made me mutured, of which once I was innocent, now I am gradually becoming skilled on building website, it is also due to valuable advice of you, today you have adviced me that how to upload made up website, it is also too much valuable, my lot of thanks to you, you are really great, but my one request to you that can you give me subject basis A TO Z advice of online business, suppose content writing- a A-Z project of it, just through percevarence and consistancy one can be successful by following it, like this give me project of affiliate marketing A-Z, even the up and down of this, last of all my lot of thanks to you, I always remain grateful one, pl tell me when you come to India, then I will be so happy
Sujit
Ah, way to figure it out on your own 🙂
You are correct, this is one of the reason I recommend the Reseller Accounts. With one, you can set up each domain on its own Cpanel.
I think your topic will work wel with the techniques that I will be teaching in these lessons. Basically you will want to start an opt-in list, with Aweber. When people come to your site, they are asked to enter their name and email to get the info they’re looking for regarding your topic. You can then sell them your ebook(s). And build a relationship with them via email, providing free info, and selling them more stuff.
In order to have good credibility with your product you should get one or both of the following:
1) real story/testimonial from someone who has been cured using the methods
2) a doctor/expert who will endorse it
Thanks. It depends on what you mean by affiliate marketing. These days most people think of aff marketing mainly in reference to PPC arbitrage. As you probably saw, the most cutting edge PPC arbitrage course is probably Arbitrage Conspiracy. If you’re looking for a cheaper course to learn the ropes of PPC, I recommend Google Cash. If you’re looking to get a good overview of affiliate marketing, without necessarily focusing on PPC, Rosalind Gardner’s Super Affiliate Handbook is still a great resource.
Nick just rename text.html to index.html and it will work 🙂
Glad to hear it! 🙂
You’re very welcome 🙂
Thanks Dan. For most people, 1 or 2 external HD’s is enough of a backup. The only problem there is if your house burns down or if your surge protector fails in the case of a lightning strike and fries your whole office. OR theft… my brother-in-law had a break-in and law lost his PC AND backup drive. So the only solution for those things is an offsite backup, and the best way I know how to do that is to back it up to a webserver. If you’re backing up massive amounts of data, you may want to use SFTP or SSH rather than FTP . In my case I just use FTP to backup the very most important files, not my entire computer.
You can get all the previous lessons here on my website http://www.ericstips.com/tips/category/lessons/
Actually I am planning on coming to India with my church in February 🙂
Eric…what about something like Affiliate Classroom. Monthly education and training?
Yup, Aff Classroom would be a good place to learn it.
Hi Eric
I will be so happy on meeting with you
Sujit
Hard to understand the importance of things until you have the experience with it.
Also had to have some experience with you to feel comfortable and build my trust with you. I appreciate you hanging in there with me as I do that.
Is it hard to switch to reseller account? I am working on a lot and if it is hard or takes a lot of time I might wait.
Appreciate your input as always and recognize it is always my final ecision and responsibility.
Thanks Mark
No it’s not hard. Talk to Hostgator and they can most likely upgrade you to a reseller account without you even having to switch to a new server. But if you do have to switch to a new server, they can help move your sites.
Hi Eric
I have been your student for a while now, It all started with me buying the Adsense Templates,I have learned a lot from the tutorials, the question I have for you today is about HyperVre, can i still use it today to build quick (google adsense) monetized sites?
Thank you very much for sharing what you know with us…, It is making a lot of a positive difference in my internet marketing life, God bless you more.
Hi Eric,
I had follow all your video clips, and they were great. I learned more from you since I found your site…:)
Recently I had upload a camtasia video clip to my site from my web hosting server. And posted into my site successfully. It just a 468×360 short clip (1 min 15 sec). When I try to play it, why it has to take a long time to fully download the clip(it just take a few second when I play your clip)?
Is that because of the web hosting server or I need some setting in my camtasia studio programme?
Thank you for the advice. Happy Holidays!
Regards,
Mike
Hi Eric – funny this should be today’s lesson since I just uploaded a bunch of files & images for a quarterly update to my sister’s missionary web site. I’ve been using free FTP Commander but don’t like it so maybe I’ll try filezilla.
My own site is waiting for me to choose a good domain name – this one thing has really slowed me down yet it seems so simple! I’ve written a survey to send out in January that will help me solve that. Although I wrote half an ebook on a baby-related topic, I’ve decided to change my niche to one that I know and enjoy, volunteer-based ESL. My grad thesis 4 years ago was a web-based ESL teaching guide still online at CSU, meaning that I already have dozens of pages of content that just need updating and reorganizing. Plus I discovered that some of the sites I referenced in that project have affiliate programs. I plan to add a newsletter, forum, more content, and eventually original resources for sale. –not that this has anything to do with today’s video but it helps me to write this stuff down – hope you don’t mind 🙂
Desperate!!!!
I know this is of the track but I need help for uploading to my
site infrastructurehealing.com with XSite Pro which I have never done before and I have not been able to figure it out or get help from them.
When I go to test the FTP connection it says it works and when I click on publish my web site it does it but when I go to the open it I get the following:
Index of /
.ftpquota
cgi-bin/
public_html/
Apache/2.2.10 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.10 OpenSSL/0.9.8i DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at infrastructurehealing.com Port 80
I then have to click on the public_html/ to get my site to open correctly, which it does.
I need to try and fix this before Eric gets to XSite Pro.
I have not been able to figure it out or get help with XSite Pro technical help.
I believe it has to do with what I need to type in for FTP Directory. I have typed in what XSite pro and Hostgator said to try which was /puplic_html/.I did this and what I explained above is what happens.
I have tried everything else I could think of but it has not worked
I would appreciate help or suggestions from anyone.
Thanks Mark
Hi Eric,
This is my first time posting (so here I go).
On lesson#24 you introduced hostgator as a choice for hosting website, and also provided coupon code for anyone getting a baby plan that pay only a penny on the first month. A quick question, is this coupon code also good for if I want to get a reseller account (aluminum), or do I need to be given a different coupon code? (and will you povide one for us?)
By the way, just want to say that I have been following all of your lessons from the very beginning (despite my first post here) and all I can say is this is AWSOME! I never would have thought someone like you still exist online really! Big Thanks for doing this!
Kornkrit
Hi..Eric
Good to know you and happy you’re Coloradan’cuase I lived over there for almost 18 years and finished school from U.of Colorado at Boulder.Now I backed to Thailand but still missing lots of friends.I love mountain high and fresh air(sometimes).I would like to ask you,if you have time to set up (design)my website for favor in the nearly future. There are lots of things I have to learn from you. For now only say HI first.I lived in Englewood,Denver and I hope some day in the future if I have some chance, I will visit Denver again.Thanks for your patient and hope you understand my language anyway.ha?
Warm regards,
Chai..
Thank you very much Eric. Your suggestion is very helpful to me. Soon I am going to implement these suggestions. Can you tell me the course which you have talked previously.
Hi!
Just to keep you post it, it is a very good lesson as usual, Eric, to be a teacher is one of your multiple talents.
I am using Smart FTP for a while and I am comfortable with it, but it is good to know that filezilla is an alternative.
By the way, yesterday I watched a live show with Joel C and you, I think were recorded in May. And I discover a couple of new angles of your personality. You said you are not a multi task person, you are doing one think at a time to do it right. I am agreeing with you but honestly I don’t know how you are able to accomplish this.
My big problem is that I am doing so many thinks in the same time. I try to discipline myself, I make some improvements on my schedule but I don’t get that far to work on just a task at a time.
And I have had a good laugh when you said, you “don’t use Twitter because it is a distraction”. When you will teach traffic, I am curious to see if you use Squidoo lenses, HubPages, Stumbleupon, digg, TwitMyBlog, and so on – all of them are distractions and very, very time consuming but they produce free traffic. And my observation from doing it is that if you use just one-two of them the result is zero, we have to use all of them and link them together to obtain substantial results.
Thanks again
Michaela
Yes you can still use HyperVRE. And as I’ve always said about it, the more you customize the template before running it through the system, the better.