Uploading


Using an FTP Client

In order to display your JAlbum [or anything] on the web, you need to UPLOAD it. This is commonly called FTP [File Transfer Protocol] and it is done by using a "FTP Client", which means an application to do the task.

Applications like JAlbum may well have an INBUILT FTP Client, but while not wishing to say anything for or against that client [as I have never tried it] there is a case for having your own FTP Client [especially as there is more to a web page than JAlbum, even if JAlbum is the best bit], which should be of the "split screen" variety with your Hard Disc on the LEFT and you web site on the RIGHT

In this example I am using a freeware program xtyftp. I like this application for several reasons but the principles here are common to all FTP Clients

In this screen shot I am simply uploading the whole of folder [directory] athens1 to the web site. athens1 is a subdirectory of trip1, so you will see both sides are "located" at the directory trip1 - so far so good!!

I then simply selected the whole directory anthens1 and clicked the BIG BLUE arrow to the right, and the screen shot is taken 55 seconds later as you can see from lower left

At upper right you can see that 74 of 99 files have already zinged across and the individual red bars show the progress of the files being sent [6 at a time] to the web site. This does not mean at 6 times the upload speed but that there is not the normal delay in first loading a file and then sending it. In other words all the gaps are used resulting in faster overall time [2 minutes for this album as compared to 6 minutes for my expensive CuteFTP].

A more advanced tutorial later [perhaps] might explain where Cute FTP has the wood on xtyftp in other respects but the intention of this tutorial is to show the basics of FTP.