File Transfer Protocol

After you design a website, you need to transfer it to a web server. A host is required at this point.

That's where File Transfer Protocol (FTP) comes in. Several software packages that allow you to FTP are WS-FTP, CuteFTP, Fetch (for Macs), FileZilla or Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver is a web editing tool used in this Web Design course that has a convenient FTP feature.

Our personal host names for the university are http://www.personal.umd.umich.edu/~uniquename.

For people not using personal hosting through our university, you need a domain name.

For FTP, you need four things to get started!
1. Name of Host
    Ex. allencreek.org is reserved as a domain name for ten years. The name for the host maps to the
    website name.

2. Username
    For students at UM-D, it's the student's uniquename.

3. Password

4. Directory/Public Folder
    For UM-D, it's under the Public/HTML folder

So your personal website http://www.personal.umd.umich.edu/~uniquename will be mapping to your Public/HTML folder.