Web Publishing for Personal Web Sites

First you will need an FTP program. FTP stands for "File Transfer Protocol" for you techies out there.

You can surf on over to Download.com or Tucows.com to view the choices for FTP programs. Here in the TeleSouth offices we like to use CuteFTP or WSFTP for the Windows based computers. On the Macintosh we use "Fetch". All of these programs work very well and have a free trial period so that you can use it at no cost.

You will need a username and password to access your web site directory. You will have recieved this when you contacted TeleSouth Customer Care to set up your Personal Web Space on the server. If you have forgotten it then please contact us.

FTP Settings:

FTP Server: ftp.telesouth1.com
Username: What ever you have been assigned.
Password:

When you log-in you will be in your root directory( / ). Simply upload your webpages into the directory. You can then add sub-directories using your FTP program. (Just make sure that links within your webpages are referenced to correctly show the proper directory--otherwise visitors to your site will get a "404 - File Not Found" message.)

The web page that will be brought up as the default must be named "index.html". This is usually the home page. Please note, if your HTML document has been saved as "index.htm" be sure and rename it to "index.html" when you upload it. Your other webpages CAN have the ".htm" extensions if you reference the links with them.

What address is my Personal Web Site located at?

Any file that you upload into your web directory will be located at:

"http://www.telesouth1.com/username"

If you have included subdirectories, these can be found at:

"http://www.telesouth1.com.com/YourUsername/YourSubdirectory/"

Any file that you upload to this subdirectory would be found at:

"http://www.yourdomainname.com/subdir/filename.html"

In EACH directory there can be a file named "index.html" that will run as the default.