Publishing your web pages on our server involves the following steps:
  Create your web pages on your local PC's hard disk. You can do this in many ways, such as:

• Create HTML text files with a text editor, if you know how to do this (or you can buy a book about it, or read one of the many web pages on the Internet which tell you how HTML works)
• Use a graphical web page editing program, such as Netscape Navigator Gold or Netscape Communicator, Adobe Page mill, Sausage Software's Hotdog, or many others

• You can look at your trial pages on your local hard disk by running Netscape and opening up the file you have written on your hard disk using the File menu to open up the page. Your html files need to end in either .html or .htm to work properly.
• When you are ready, transfer your web pages from your hard disk to our server. This is done using a program called ftp to transfer the files over to us (ftp is a short name for the File Transfer Protocol). On windows 95/98 or NT, you can do this by connecting to the Internet, then bringing up an MSDOS window and doing the following (this example assumes you have created your pages and put them in a directory on your computer called \PAGES).

  You type the commands which are shown in bold face below, changing things as appropriate for your situation.

   C:\WINDOWS> cd \pages (or to wherever your pages are stored)
   C:\PAGES> ftp www.online.net.pg

  These commands will connect your computer to our server. Now, log in to our server by typing in your assigned username and your password, as shown in the following example:

  Connected to www.online.net.pg
  220 chimbu FTP server (Version 6.00LS) ready.
  Username (www.online.net.pg): yourname (without @online.net.pg added to it!)
  331 Password required for login.
  Password: yourpassword
  230 User yourname logged in.
  FTP> binary (you only need this command to send binary files like GIF or JPEG)
  FTP> mput *.* (sends all of the files in your \PAGES directory over to our server)
      or
  FTP> put index.html (just send index.html file over)

  FTP> bye (that's all!)

  Other commands worth knowing about in ftp include:

  • dir            list all files on the remote server
  • get name  get the named file from the server and put it on your own hard disk
  • put name  put the named file from your hard disk over to the server
  • cd  name  change to a new directory on the server
  • md name   make a new subdirectory on the server
  • rd  name   remove a directory on the server
  • dele name    delete a file from the server
  Now, you can access your pages on our server to make sure that they have been properly transferred. To do this, just call up your pages like this in netscape:

      http://www.online.net.pg/~yourname

  (which calls up the file called index.html or index.htm in your directory), or if you want to view another specific filename in your area, type in the name of that file on the end of the line, like this:

      http://www.online.net.pg/~yourname/yourfile.html

  For example, if your Online South Pacific account was called fred, your web pages would be called up like this:

      http://www.online.net.pg/~fred
   

• That's it! You can use ftp to change your web pages on our server whenever you like. Note that most good web page design programs often have an ftp program built into them. Also, there are some nice windows-based ftp programs available, such as the one on our software download page, called  WS_FTP. You may find them easier to use than the FTP command in MSDOS. If you want to download this program, just click here to go to our software pages, and then download what you want by clicking on the appropriate link to begin the download of the program to your hard disk.