upload web pages with ftp directly to our servers

Using FTP to upload your files to our server

(only for our Non-Domain Name and Domain-Name Hosts. FTP and FP98 servers are managed by the site owner directly)

If you cannot send your htm-files and art as an attachment to an e-mail because they are over 1.4 Megs in size, you can use FTP to transfer (or upload) your files to our Web servers. Netscape's Navigator/Composer, for example, lets you access our FTP servers in the same way you access our Web (HTTP) servers.

After you have accessed our FTP server, you can upload your files to our site with either one of these two methods:

After you have accessed our FTP server, you can upload files to our site by dragging and dropping them from the Windows File Manager, Explorer or the Navigator browser window. This process is easier if all your Web page files are located in one directory on your local disk.

Alternatively, and the method we prefer, after you've accessed our FTP site, chose in the Navigator's File menu the Upload File item. In the resulting dialog box, select the file on your hard disk that you wish to upload.

To FTP us your files, use this FTP address:

ftp://ftp.bitmark.com/pub/incoming

After you have uploaded your files you have to send us an e-mail informing us of this transfer as otherwise we'll not know about it since we only check this incoming directory once a week and hence cannot take action until then.

Note: Most FTP client software lets you choose either ASCII text or binary transfer mode. Although HTML files themselves can be transferred as text files, other files, such as JPEG and GIF files, cannot be correctly transferred that way. In the Navigator/Composer, files are uploaded to FTP sites in binary mode by default.

You might find the FTP directory and content pages have minimal formatting. When possible, the browser window shows the type, size, date, and a short description of each file in a directory. A directory is presented as a list of links; each link is often preceded by a small icon indicating another directory or a file. Clicking on a directory link displays a subdirectory. Typically, at the top of a subdirectory is a link that displays the parent directory.

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