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Viewing the Contents of Your Personal Web Space This section of our support files assumes you have already done the following: Set up your personal web space with accessBee's technical support staff Learned how to upload your files to your accessBee web space using WS_FTP LE, Internet Explorer or another method. If not, please return to the support page in order to complete these tasks first. The purpose of this section of our support topics is to teach you some of the basics of file management that will allow you to effectively use and manage your personal web space. We will also look at how to view your files through a web browser such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer or Netscape. Creating an entire website with hyperlinks, html pages, inline images and text is quite an in depth subject and is beyond the scope of what we will discuss here. Conversely, creating a simple website is not brain surgery and we encourage you to take advantage of some of the links on the support page in order to maximize the use of your web space. A basic website can be easy to create with a little study, and can be lots of fun, too. Unfortunately, our staff will not be able to help you with website questions other than assisting you in creating your personal web space, so read on! Each accessBee user that takes advantage of their personal web space gets an individual address that they will use when trying to view their files through the web using a web browser. This address is made up of different pieces and can change based upon what the user is trying to view. A standard web address usually looks like this: http://www.fresnobee.com. When typing this address into the address line in your browser, it is not necessary, in most browsers, to include the 'http://' part of the address, because that is the default (the browser assumes you are using an http:// address because most of the stuff we access on the web is using http://) The address you will use for your own personal web space is made up of the accessBee members' site address followed by the forward slash, followed by your username. Example: If my username for accessBee is fredsanford, my personal web space address will be http://members.accessbee.com/fredsanford . Please notice that there is no www. preceding the word members in the address! This address will not necessarily allow us to view our files though. Unless you have some experience with websites, you won't have what is called an index or default page in your directory. Therefore you will see the screen below. In order to see our files, we may need to be more specific in our addressing. For that we need to know a little bit more. Please read on! Fig. 1 As explained earlier, it is beyond the scope of our support to show you how to create an entire website, but if you would like to be able to share files with others online, you must know how to get to them with an address also known as a URL. The URL reflects the name of the file, its location in your web space and the name associated with your web space. For a brief example, let's assume the following: I have a picture from my camping trip that I have uploaded to my web space using FTP (see using FTP or using Internet Explorer to upload to your web space). The picture is called camping1.jpg My username is fredsanford (see Fig. 2) Fig. 2 How do I view this image through a browser. Let's build the address you would use. First, my starting point is my personal web space address which in this case would be http://members.accessbee.com/fredsanford. I want to see the image camping1.jpg though so I need to ad that to the address: http://members.accessbee.com/fredsanford/camping1.jpg Notice that we have to include the .jpg extension at the end of the address! Browsers can view several different types of files directly in the browser window. Some of these files are .gif, .jpeg, .jpg and .html files. If your browser can not view a particular type of file, a download screen will pop up asking you if you want to download the file (this is what happens when we click on links to .exe files to download programs). This can be handy if you want to upload a Word document for example and then you want people to be able to download it without having access to your files or your FTP account. If Example: I want my friends to be able to download a party invitation using their browser. The invitation I created is called invitation.doc and I have uploaded into the root directory of my web space (root directory simply means that I didn't put it into another folder inside my web space). My friends can access invitation.doc by typing http://members.accessbee.com/fredsanford/invitation.doc into the address line in their browser. The invitation will display in some versions of Internet Explorer, otherwise they will be asked to download it. Either way, you have transferred the file to them without giving them any access to editing or deleting your copy off of your web space. Plus they can download it as many times as they want to! Refer to the support page for links to some great websites that can teach you more!