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FTP - Drag and drop into your FTP store in Windows |
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Written by Jack Bremer
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
 So, have we been helpful enough to set up a simple document store for you in your website, and you'd like easy access to it eh?
No problem!
Let's get things set up so you can simply drag and drop, or copy and paste into the FTP store, which we will already have set up so that it shows live on your site...
You'll need three things to hand:
- your website address (easy - it's the bit after www. - e.g. 3bweb.com)
- your FTP username (we'll have given this to you!)
- your FTP password (we should also have given this to you!)
- About two minutes to read and implement this guide!
Here we go...
- Open up "My Computer"
- Click "My Network Places" (or similar, depending on the version of Windows you have) on the left-hand section of that window
- Click "Add a network place", again on the left
- Click "Next"
- Ensure that "Choose another network connection" is highlighted and click "Next"
- Type in the address as follows:
ftp://username:password@domain.com (obviously replace the username, password and domain with the relevant info!)
- Click "Next"
- Type in a name for the network place - it automatically suggests your domain name
- Click "Next"
- Click "Finish"
There you go! Direct access through Windows to your FTP store... To find it in the future, just go into "Network Places" and double click the new shortcut. Of course, you can also copy a shortcut to the desktop or wherever you prefer for quick access.
Please, for everyone's benefit, ensure you keep the FTP spring cleaned - it's a pain for your clients to wade through out-of-date files and they take up valuable storage space on the servers. If you delete things as you go, when they're no longer needed, it makes things a lot easier in the long run!
Top tip: You might be able to save a file on your computer with an obscure name like document$56`'~&?.doc but the Internet will hate you for it! If you can, make sure you only upload files with standard names - letters, numbers and the simplest of punctuation such as underscores, full stops. (It will HATE seeing apostrophes, commas, slashes, colons and Word-style quotation marks or hyphens, so just don't do it!)
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