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What is DNS propagation?
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What is FTP?
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Why am I seeing a list of my files, instead of the pages I have made?
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My images are broken. Why?
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What is DNS propagation?
Propagation is the process by which name servers are made aware of the changes that you make to your domain name with your registrar (the company you purchased your domain name with). This process can take between 24 and 72 hours.
DNS propagation takes a bit of time because the "synchronization" is happening amongst hundreds of thousands of servers. The process may seem to take too long but it is happening rapidly on a very large scale.
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What is FTP?
FTP is the short for File Transfer Protocol. It is the most popular method used by those who need to move files from their personal computer to a web server.
To transfer a file using FTP, you need an FTP client/software. There are several free and commercial software tools available to use. One such free tool is called SmartFTP. It can be obtained from http://www.download.com
If you are FrontPage user, you do not need FTP software to publish or transfer files onto your website.
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Why am I seeing a list of my files, instead of the pages I have made?
This is most likely because you have not used a proper index page. You will need to name your index/first page either index.html or index.htm.
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My images are broken. Why?
Sometimes you may see that your html web page, but the images will not load. The first thing to check is the case of the files. Unix is case-sensitive, so if your files have been uploaded in uppercase but they are linked to in lowercase (or vice versa), they will not work. Also make sure that your images are uploaded in 'binary' mode using your ftp client.
As a safeguard, always try to avoid using spaces in your file names i.e. avoid name like 'my image 1.jpg'.
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