• First, i opened Microsoft front page
• I started a new page, and filled it with some text and a few links (you will learn how to make text clickable later) but in front page it is as simple as selecting the text, hitting CTRL+K and writing the URL.
• I saved the page on the C drive (windows) as index.htm (you can typically save the home page as index.htm or index.html)
• i went to a hosting provider with free web hosting and signed up for there free plan (Netfirms Basic), Click here to visit that same provider. or here to visit the review of that particular provider on buildguide.net.
• On signup to the free plan i was asked if i would like to get a domain ($25 / Year) and that is not really the best price you can hope for in domain registration, or if i already had one that i would like to use, a third option was i would like to use a free Netfirms name (sub-domain), so i chose the third, i get to chose the first part of the domain, so i chose build as in buildguide ending up with a web address of build.netfirms.com.
• Right after this step, i was asked for my information, like my name, my address, my Email address, Etc...
• After filling that information, i was sent an email containing information about my new account, So i took my username and my password and logged in into my account at the Netfirms website and changed my password as step 1.
• i then downloaded WS_FTP from www.download.com, i ran the file and an installation of WS_FTP  began. Once installed i opened the application and filled out the information i was sent in the email as follows
  site name : i made up a name for my website and called it netfirms_mywebsite
  FTP HOST: build.netfirms.com (it is nice that it is just like my web address, other companies will not necessarily give you this FTP host
  Username: build
  Password: ******* <- The one i chose when i logged in to change my password
• Than i clicked connect, i was introduced with the folders in the remote window now, 1- WWW 2- CGI-BIN and 3- admin
• I navigated in the other window (the local hard disk window) back to drive C: where i had stored my index.htm and to www on the remote file system, chose that local index file, then i pressed the arrow (right) and the file was transferred to the server's WWW directory, You should note that this directory is the one you have to upload your files to (called the web directory) and that its name may not be the same always, some common names of this directory are html, www, web, webfiles, htdocs, and so on, but it should be evident, the cgi-bin directory name however is usually something close to CGI-BIN*, for example cgi_directory.
• I now opened my browser and pointed it to build.netfirms.com by typing the address into the address bar, Yes, my page displays, I have a website up on the internet.

I still need to make that website something worth looking at design wise, The point is that all i need to do from this point on is, make more html files and link them together then upload them (by clicking the right arrow)

Now you are probably fit to go to the next step (How to create a real website)

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