How do you get html files onto the internet?

[evieparsons1]

I have made some html files and i want to put them on the internet but I don't know how. I want it to be free with no ads and just my page. Can anybody help me?

 

[benjamin_c]

you neet hosting and a FTP, File Transfer Protocol which is a piece of software that connects to the host server and uploads your files.

 

[fisicx]

Do you have a domain to which the files will belong? If you do then the cpanel for that domain will include instructions for uploading the files. If you don't then unploading the files won't actually acheive anything.

 

[djwellis]

The HTML files are the webpages themselves. The website requires 2, possibly 3 components

1 - webpage
(done)

2 - server
to host the site (free ones usually have ads i'm afraid)
some web hosting is remarkably cheap anyway - some providers do it for less than £10 a year, if you want a site I'd just bite the bullet - at the end of the day, even if it doesn't have high commercial value, you will have learnt a bit about web development and if you go with option 3 (below) then you will have somewhere to have some decent - company branded - email addresses.

3 - domain name,
ie - mybusiness.com - optional, but at todays prices - recommended
123-reg is a popular one, with .co.uk domains for less than £10 a year


Google "web hosting" and "domain name registration" and you will find a lot of companies out there wanting to sell to you! it is a very saturated market!

Additionally, when you have access to a server to host your website, you will be given FTP access to that server - as benjamin_c mentioned, it is a method of sending files to a web server - you can use the FTP protocol to send your html pages to the server.


In this case, I'd recommend spending a little bit of money on it and having a good try.

 

[fisicx]

Cancel all the above. The OP is only interested in link dropping some crappy social bookmarking service. Do a Google on evie and look at where and what she/he is posting.

 

[bdw]

Yes - he/she seems to have spent the last couple of weeks signing up for every business forum imagineable.