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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Would you like to send me something?

Well now you can, and not by emailing them either. I have started a guest ftp account. For those of you out there that do not know what ftp is (in other words everyone except Phil) I shall explain. Basically ftp (file transfer protocol) lets you upload files to a particular web site. It's that easy. I have to use an ftp program, or client, to spread my lovely words to you each time. I'm lucky because the web creation program I use (Rapidweaver) has a built in ftp client which I think most web design programs would. However, you lucky little sods get a ftp client for free. You have probably used it before and not even known you were. In fact I would bet 80% of people are using it right now. Yep, Internet explorer can be used to as an ftp client.

Here is how to do it.
Step 1: Type ftp://guest@deejaydoubleyou.com directly into the address bar.
Step 2: Now a dialog box should appear asking you for a username and password, enter this: username = guest@deejaydoubleyou.com, password = 123456 and press enter.
Step 3: Now you browser window should look like your documents folder. Now you can simply drag anything you want into the big white space you have below the address bar. Alternatively you can drag files into the deejaydoubleyou.com folder you have on the left hand side on the screen where your normal documents folders are located. Once you drag something across IE automatically starts to upload it to my guest directory on my web site. *IMPORTANT* This folder is not public so whatever you upload will not be directly displayed on my web page until I move it to the correct place, so any naked photos (Ian) are safe.

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