First you will need FTP software like WSFTP.  You can download this for free at http://www.download.com .  

At download.com you will need to type this in

and hit Go!

The next screen is the results page. On here click on the first one listed.

Then click on the Download Now button here.

In a few seconds this box appear in the center of your screen.

Choose Save this program to disk and hit OK.

To make it easier have it download to the desktop.  To do this click on the up one folder button shown in red here.

Until it shows Desktop in the Save in box above.

Then hit Save.  It will take several minutes to download and when it's done there will be a new icon on the desktop.

Double click on this and the setup will begin.

This is the first screen.

Hit Continue.

On this screen choose the first option as shown below.

Hit Next.

Here choose At school under location and For Personal use under Purpose as shown below.


Hit Next.
You will see the license agreement HIT ACCEPT.

The next screen is the directory that it will be loaded into.

This is fine hit OK.

Also hit OK for the next window.

It will then ask you about the Program Manager Group this is alright so hit OK.

It will then pop up a screen for a few seconds and say this.

Hit OK and it's done.

Next go to the Start button as shown below to open the program.

 

You will see this screen. 

It will not have the profile name listed as TCA Express...  Just click on NEW and fill it in like the example above.  

Please DO NOT have Anonymous checked!!!  Also the User ID is you username with TCA lowercase and please don't put the @tcaexpress.net in there. Then put in the correct password.

After this hit OK, it will then log you in.

This is the left side of the screen.

This is your hard drive....  As you can see the location is in the Program Files directory.  You need to change to the directory that you images are located in.  Simply click the little green arrow located near the top of window.  The easiest way to find your stuff is to go all the way to C:\ and then go to the correct folder. 


 

This is the right side of the screen.

Your screen will look similar to this except for the public_html directory listed.  YOU NEED THIS!!!!!  

This is how you create it!!!

Hit this button!!

This screen will appear.

Enter the information as listed above EXACTLY and hit OK.

It will then appear in the main box.

Now double click upon the public_html listing.  It will take you to that area.  

Now that we are at this point I shall show you a neat trick!!!

At the bottom bar of the WSFTP window there are some buttons.

As you can see the Options buttons is what I want to talk about.

Once you click on the Options button this screen will appear.

Now if you have the correct directories chosen in the above steps i.e. the images folder on the hard drive and the public_html on the right side remote system.  Hit the red highlighted button.

The next time that you open the software the folders that you had up this time will come right back.  Note... YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO THIS EVER AGAIN!!!!  Hit OK.


Now to send files up to the system so people can see them!!

In the middle of the two windows is the upload and download buttons.

This is the download button, it sends files INTO you computer!!
This is the upload button the one that you use to SEND files to us.
This is the one that you will use!!!!!

So to send files you simply click ONCE on the index.html on the left box and then click the arrow shown in green above. BOOM!! The file is uploaded!!!

Now the hard part... Finding the picture online.

Open the browser like Internet Explorer or Netscape.
Then type in this http://www.tcaexpress.net/~username
The wavy line thing is called the tilde' and located on the key to the left of the number 1 on the top of the keyboard.

Please replace the username with your username.

NOTE!!!!  The case of the file that you send up is sensitive.
If you upload a file named Whatever.JPG or INDEX.HTML and type in whatever.jpg or index.html in the address it sill not show up.  You must have that the same.  I always suggest that people have all the file names in lowercase.


That's IT!!!!

Congratulations!!!!!!!


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