Many stand alone FTP programs are available on the net, both WS_FTP or CuteFTP, for a PC, or Fetch, popular for Macs.

Check shareware libraries to see what is currently available for download.

If you wish to use either of the above you need to provide the following information so that the program can connect and transfer files to your member directory.

Host name: ftp.angelfire.com
User ID: your username (including your member directory if that is applicable, ie memberdirectory/membername)
Password: your Angelfire password

No other information is required to be filled in for you to connect to your site via FTP.

If there any remaining fields in your FTP client, leave them blank.

Programs vary, but in general, you want to highlight the files in your local folder that you want to upload to your Angelfire WebShell.

Once these files are selected (you can do more generally upload as many at a time as you wish), click on either "Upload" or some programs have an Arrow to upload to your site.

Many newer FTP clients are coming out that are drag and drop.

So, you can select the files you wish to upload on your hard drive, and drag them into your WebShell once you are connected through the FTP client.

Yes, your files can easily be downloaded (for back up purposes) via FTP.

It works the same way as uploading the files, only in reverse. Instead of selecting the files on your computer and dragging them to the "remove view", reverse the process. Select the files in the "remote view", and drag them to your computer's view.

This is extremely helpful to know, so that you can periodically back up your website files on your computer.

Like most things on WebDesign, this is entirely preference.

Personally, I prefer an FTP program (simply for the ability to log errors), while others here prefer the Internet Explorer method.

With Angelfire, you have the ability to use both. It all boils down to what you're comfortable with.

A few things to check, before contacting your software manufacturer:

1) Make sure that your firewall is configured to allow your FTP software to connect to the internet.
2) Make sure that your FTP client is configured properly for Angelfire
3) Make sure your username and password are correct.

If all of these things are set up correctly, and you still cannot connect using FTP, we suggest contacting the manufacturer of the software in question, for assistance. They'll know specifically what their error message numbers mean, and will be able to help troubleshoot your software.

Uploading files via FTP can be tricky. All of your file names (images, text files, word documents, pdf files, and html pages) need to be HTML compliant.

That means that they need to be all lowercase, with no spaces, or nonalphanumeric characters.

For example: my webpage.html won't upload.
Renaming it to my_webpage.html, or my-webpage.html will work, and will allow you to upload it.

Keep in mind, also, that My_webpage, and my_webpage, aren't the same file when coding your HTML.

Due to certain browers restrictions on passing numbers of characters, we opted to limit the amount of subdirectories that can be created in your Angelfire account.

While the limit is number of characters (in older versions of Netscape, and IE), it is easier to limit the number of subdirectories, rather than the characters you can create your folders with.

By default, your files will upload wherever you tell them to.

If you want the files to upload into your images directory, you'd need to specify that when you're uploading them.

If no directory is specified, they will go into your root level directory.

No. Be sure to always log on using your Angelfire directory, member name and password. Anonymous FTP will not work. You are taken to your member directory when you connect.