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You’re going to need some kind of FTP client, the reason for this is that you’re going to need to upload all the websites HTML documents and images and other things from the computer that you develop them on to the computer that they’re permanently going to live on assuming that they are different computers and they usually are. Now if you went out and bought one of those very sophisticated HTML editors like Microsoft FrontPage or even better Macromedia's Dreamweaver, then your FTP client capabilities are already there. You don't need an FTP client, however an FTP client is a good thing to have once you obviously know the concepts and techniques involved in using it. So I’m going to give you a quick overview now of what's available should you not have already FTP capabilities? There are three main types of FTP clients available, they are as follows, I’ll give you some examples of each one. Command-line clients, now I mention this because Windows actually comes with a command-line client, so does Unix or Linux. A Command-line client is one where you’re actually, a bit like using DOS or like using the Unix command shell. You type in the command that you like in words and letters and the program executes the instructions that you issued to it. These are, if you like, the least popular type of FTP client available but I’m mentioning them now because they are freely available and you don't need to download them, they already come with Windows. Let me show you what I’m talking about. To start the FTP client that comes with Microsoft Windows all you need to do is click on the start button, click on run and type in FTP. That's all you need to do, just FTP and press enter. The program looks like this, not very intuitive, not very obvious what to do next. Well if you want to use it, you have to basically know FTP commands, now I do happen to know them, they look like this but I don't expect you to remember these. I’m going to open Microsoft's public FTP site here and it says we need a user name, so we go to supply user name and password and the typical user name is anonymous, that is almost every FTP site will accept anonymous as a user name and enter a password, you’re supposed to send your email address but you can just make up a bogey one and there you are. user anonymous is logged in. Then if you want to find out what they have got, you do ‘dir’ just like in DOS and some stuff, so you'd say misc cd to the miscellaneous directory, do a ‘dir’ again just to see what they’ve got and they’ve got a bunch of stuff. Now if you want the product table, you could say get product.tbl and it starts retrieving it and it is retrieved. Anyway, I don't want to you memorize any of that, I just want you to get a general feel for what a command line FTP client looks like. I’ll now do the same thing again using a second type of FTP client; the second type of FTP client that's available on the market is Graphical clients. This is a bit more drag and drop, this is a bit more Windows like. It's much easier to learn one of these programs because you don't have to learn an obscure set of FTP commands. I’m going to demonstrate one of these graphical clients now called CuteFTP. This is CuteFTP running, CuteFTP is by Globalscape, www.globalscape.com, it’s shareware, you can go in here and put in the FTP computer that we want to connect to. I'll connect to the same one and the username and password are fine and I'll click on the connect button and we are connecting. I'll get a little welcome message and here is the list of directories available and there is misc again, I'll go into misc and there is all misc stuff and the product table, there’s the product table again, I can simply drag and drop that on to my computer which is on the left hand side of the screen and it’s transferring and has successfully transferred. There it is, as you can see that was considerably easier than issuing those open and get and login commands, of course uploading a file is equally painless, you simply pick it up from one side and drag it on to the other side. Obviously you have to have permission to do that and I doubt very much whether I would have permission to do that on Microsoft's site, so I’m not even going to try. The third type of FTP client available to you are what I call integrated clients, these are clients that actually make Themselves, if you like, part of Windows or whatever operating system you’re using. It’s so seamlessly integrated into the operating system that you usually can’t tell where your operating system stops and the FTP client starts. I'll give you a demonstration of that, there is a shareware program that you can get, there is a few of them actually that I know of. One's called Internet Neighborhood and other one is called WSFTP Professional, both of those are shareware products But, if you happen to have Windows 2000 or Windows ME, then you’ll find that you actually have an integrated FTP client built into the operating system, much easier to use than the Command-line one that I showed you before. Now I’m going to show you that now. If you don't have Windows ME or Windows 2000, then download one of those two programs that I mentioned earlier because they work exactly the same way. Here we’re in the Windows Explorer. This is in Windows ME; I’ve gone down to my Network Places, which is what they are now calling Network Neighborhood. and as you can see, there is this thing called add network place, which is a little wizard that you can run that will set yourself up with a connection to an FTP site or some kind of shared folder on the Internet. I have already run that wizard and set myself up with FTP to Microsoft.com so I’ll go there now and there is the list of folders in Microsoft.com, just expand that. As you can see it’s fully integrated into Windows explorer, it makes it look like Microsoft's FTP site is actually a part of my network or a part of even my computer which in some sense it is, it is part of my network as I am part of the Internet. So again I can go into the misc folder, here is the misc folder scroll down, find product.table and I can drag that anywhere I like, I can drag that into my documents and copy it there and I have already got it from before, so I will replace it, yes, and it then copies the file. Done, if I go into my documents, there it is. I would have to say that integrated FTP clients such as the one that now comes with Windows or any of the other ones are probably the easiest of all to use because you don't have to learn a new interface. You can just continue using Windows Explorer as you've always done. Finally a full explanation of how actually to use FTP, how to set FTP up on your computer, how to connect to your Internet service providers computer if you need to, all the pieces of information that you require to do so, the full FTP tutorial, albeit a brief one, will be given in the appropriate chapter.