Mr E, as Kayak says above you do not have to get a FTP prog you can use explorer however WS-FTP as recommended by Optimist is excellent and pretty cheap. Since I switched to using it I would not want to use Explorer FTP again.

I am pretty sure there is still a free version but its well hidden.

Mr E, I just had a look at the Ipswitch site and it does look as though the free version has gone, but you might be able to find it somewhere else, however if I remember correctly its a very old version. I was usisng v8 but I have just upgraded to v9.

Thanks gus. Have downloaded FTP pro now so will try it. Dont mind paying if I need to but this site lark, in terms of costs, is starting to add up (50 here, 50 there, another 50 there....). I'll try and upload the html code/files now, only about 100 files and it's odds on even if the transfer goes well the thing wont work properly :-)

I have now joined my fellow webmasters and found this decent article, well worth a read:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum48/1765.htm

I knew this would happen. Uploaded the files into one directory but nothing works (I can see the files have arrived at the hosting company and can manage them there). If i look at the domain name all I can see is the place holder that I put there a few days ago.

There must be a way of pointing the domain to the files or something?

Did you upload a file called index.htm or index.html? That is where you will be taken if you type the name of the site.

Yes and no. I uploaded the index file but it's a .php extension not htm/l. M understnding was this should still work??????????

and its in a dir. a couple down from the root.

No it needs to be in the top level directory. I've never heard that it can be called .php but you could be right.

The thing to do is also to check that you can see one or two of the other files. E.g. if you have a mreuro.jpg, go www.eurochops.com/folder/mreuro.jpg and it should come up in your browser.

Thanks Kayak, you are right, the problem has to be with the index file as I can get to all the content with the address method as you outlined.

I have a problem with my Norton antivirsus and firewall on my home computer. A couple of days ago the icons disappeared from my tool bar and both antivirsus and firewalls were disabled. I can't re-enable them, when i click on the enable button nothing happens. Also i cannot get a live update, it keeps being aborted> i have checked with the symantec website for their free antivirsus and threat checks, and they say there are no virsus or threats in my hard drive. At the same time I now cannot log into some websites. I can get on the moneyam site (I am on portable at moment) but once I try to log in it fails. I can however i can log into other sites such as Michael Walters.
Appreciate any help or suggestions, thanks in advance

sutherlh1 - soumds similar to my problem from yesterday. Read from post 2479 for some ideas. I still can't get rid of MENDWARE or access Norton and other sites unless in safe mode. I managed to download and run System Cleanup from Trend-micro, it got rid of lots of viruses and trojans, but not the aforementioned :-((

suther

Acouple of ideas from google on your mendware removal problem

http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-mendware.html

http://www.spywareguide.com/product_show.php?id=623

http://www.pestpatrol.com/PestInfo/m/mendware.asp#Detection%20and%20Removal

Good article on Anti-Spyware products at

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118362,pg,1,00.asp

"You've almost certainly encountered the ads: A dialog box pops up on your system, bearing the message "Warning! Your computer may be infected with spyware" and suggesting that you scan your computer immediately. Click it, and you often reach a Web site providing a "free spyware scanner" that finds all sorts of malware on your PC--and then offers to sell you software that will clean it all up.

Should you buy these products? Based on our tests, our opinion is no. Following complaints from several PC World readers, we tested seven heavily advertised spyware-removal tools-- MyNetProtector, NoAdware, PAL Spyware Remover, SpyAssault, SpyBlocs, Spyware Stormer, and XoftSpy--and found that none were as effective as reputable free products such as Spybot Search & Destroy. A couple even installed new spyware."

Doc, its good to se that they agree with several of us regulars on this thread.

Back to my web site efforts............

...can anybod suggest a software package that enables ou to create web pages without having knowledge of html etc..?

Thanks.

Warning: I used a company called https://www.123-reg.co.uk to host my sites. The appear cheap on the surface but are full of hidden charges. AVOID.