Tuesday, February 1, 2011
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By Erik Small -
A brief reminder that the File Transfer Planet Forums are now fixed (had a small issue for those trying to create a new registration profile).
Also, don’t forget to utilize the FTP Guides and share with friends. They include basic information on FTP, how to setup an FTP Server, or simply transfer files from your FTP client to a Server/Host.
Winter Computing - Need to Transfer Files?
By Erik Small -
This week, Ipswitch File Transfer released a new version of the popular WS_FTP program – version 12.2.
The new version is Windows 7 compatible in both 32-bit and 64-bit modes. Other enhancements include:
Here the Press release that hit the wires today:
Ipswitch’s WS_FTP Professional And WS_FTP Home Support Microsoft Windows 7
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By pete -
Some people still think “what’s so great about youtube”.. its full of useless, awful movies produced on crummy devices, awful comments, and seems outclassed by the likes of Hulu.com and Netflix streaming services. Well – turns out there’s quite a bit “greatness” that you can derive from Youtube, with the help of a few other services and some know-how. Check out some of these cool tricks we found on www.makeuseof.com – from ringtones to free music, the possibilities go way beyond the ‘cover value’!
There are plenty of sites that allow you to view and upload videos and share your memories, experiences and knowledge with the world. However, with its extremely large user base and plenty of tools at your disposal, few may argue that YouTube is the place for your videos to be.
Some time back we showed you some YouTube URL tricks that allow you to change how the player behaves. Right now, allow us to present forth some of the most popular tools out there to go along with YouTube and the super cool stuff you can do with them.
By c-emmons -
WS_FTP doesn’t necessarily build your website, but it does play a vital role in the process.
It transfers the files that make up your site a remote computer called a web server. After WS_FTP is done transferring your files, the web server does the work of "serving" your files when visitors browse to your website’s address.
If you are interested in seeing what HTML looks like, click right-click your mouse on any web page, you should see an option to "View Source" or "View Page Source". You will see a lot of HTML, links to graphic files and other code such as CSS and Javascript. This code makes the site you’re viewing look and function the way it does. With some of the free and paid tools available today, you don’t necessarily need to write this code by hand, you can manage much of the layout, links, and effects using their "Point and Click" tools.
Don’t get us wrong, learning about HTML, CSS and other languages like Javascript and jQuery are a must if you are serious about web development and design, and learning a little bit about HTML can be helpful even if you’re not!
There are many user-friendly HTML editors which make building website’s easier and a lot of fun.
Adobe Dreamweaver (Free for 30-Days)
Dreamweaver is one of the most popular HTML editors, for intermediate and advanced users.
Download Trial
Komodo Edit (Free)
Komodo Edit is a free, open source editor that has support for Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl, plus JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and XML, and template languages like RHTML, Template-Toolkit, HTML-Smarty and Django!
Download Trial
Aptana Studio (Free)
Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help you and your team do more.
Download Free
NVU (Free)
XML support, advanced CSS support, full site management, built-in validator, and international support as well as WYSIWYG and color coded XHTML editing.
Download Free
Once you’re done using your HTML editor of choice, you will have a bunch of files sitting on your computer including HTML, CSS, Graphics, and other media files. They all need to find their way to a web server so the rest of the world and access and enjoy your newly created site.
You may have some free web space provided by your ISP, or perhaps you’ve taken the plunge and signed up with a hosting company like our favorite, Dreamhost (which serves the page you are reading right now!).
Either way, the company that will host or serve your website has or can provide you with the hostname or IP address, username and password for your account.
Using the Hostname, Username and Password you can make a connection to your web server and upload your files to make your site available to anyone with an Internet connection.
Watch this great video tutorial on how to create the connection to your hosting service.
By Erik Small -
Scheduling a transfer using a script
If you’re setup with a file transfer client and make regular connections to an FTP server, you can easily automate file transfers. This is useful if you want to update a website nightly, or update the same document daily. There are a few ways to do this with WS_FTP. With the Scheduler Utility, you upload a file by setting a specified time interval. Utilizing the Synchronize Utility, a mirrored ( local vs. remote) set of files can be ‘synchronized’ automatically. The third feature is for an advanced user — Script Utility allows for a scheduled file transfer, but also allows for deleting files, changing directories, or checking success/failure of a command.
Detailed ‘how-to’ can be viewed in the WS_FTP Professional Tools Guide.
By Erik Small -
Yahoo has decided to wind down Geocities. This part of the Yahoo business was big back in the early days — it’s definitely an end of an era. Tech Crunch has a quick write-up on how Yahoo is pulling the plug.
Here’s in excerpt:
“GeoCities’ traffic has been falling over the past year. According to ComScore, GeoCities unique visitors in the U.S. fell 24 percent in March to 11.5 million unique visitors from 15.1 million in March of 2008. Back in October, 2006, it had 18.9 million uniques.”
“There are plenty of other Website creation and hosting services out there, including blog platforms such as WordPress, Blogger, and Typepad, as well as Website creation and hosting services such as Ning, Webs, Jimdo, Snapages, Weebly, and countless more. GeoCities never really kept up with the times, but always remained a decent pageview generator.”
