Hi, I need a little help with publishing a website I created with Coffee Cup's Visual Site Designer.

We had a previous website (www.prettyquarterhorses.net) our previous web designer and has signed everything over to us for the name, etc. And we have an account with Go Daddy for hosting.

When I go to my website (on Coffee Cup) and go over by Upload and click the drop box, I then click Setup Internet Connection. It then comes up with these and boxes that I'm supposed to fill in...

FTP Server:
Username:
Password:
WWW folder:

Profile Name:


What are all of these, how do I know what to enter in? (esp. the FTP Server)

Thanks in advance!

Since I am a noob feeling my way along and bad information is worse than no information, I am reluctant to jump in; but, there doesn't seem to be anybody else around at the moment. Let me see if I can at least get you started so you can make a little progress while waiting for somebody competent to come along.

The first four items you should be able to get by logging in to your GoDaddy account.
The FTP Server name will be an IP address that looks like ##.##.##.##. The user name and password are likely the same as you use to log into your GoDaddy account. If not, you'll have to dig into the FTP documentation on GoDaddy's site. The WWW folder is the directory in your account where you want to upload files - the target directory.

The Profile Name sounds like a VSD thing? I'm not familiar with that.

P.S. I liked your website, the horses and pets!

The Profile name is a name that you give it to recognise it by.

It comes in handy when you have a load of sites using the same FTP software.

If that was my site I would use PQH to identify it.

The FTP server should be your domain name, in your case (prettyquaterhorses.net).

You could enter the information in dotted decimal format (like an IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) but this is bound to change unless you purchase a static IP address from your ISP. Entering the name in human readable form will leave the IP address part up to the DNS servers, which should resolve your name to an IP address automatically. At least it should

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The FTP server should be the domain name of your website (prettyquarterhorses.net) sometimes it could be preceded by ftp.

your username would be the username you log into your GoDaddy services
and password is the password used to log into GoDaddy

The WWW folder is the root directory in which you will upload the files of your website. Usually it's something like public_html or it may be blank.

Your best bet is to contact GoDaddy's tech support and they should have no problem giving you that info.

Hope this helps