This is a short video tutorial on how to FTP your files from your local computer to your webhost. You’ve got your new webhost account and you’ve used Fantastico to install Wordpress for the first time but you have no idea how to move files from your computer to your webhost. You may have been told about Cute FTP or WS FTP, but neither are free or as easy as they could be. The solution is FireFTP. FireFTP is a free FTP client for Firefox which allows you to transfer files, Wordpress themes, plugins, images or any other files from your laptop or desktop machine to your webhost server account.

When you first install your wordpress blog using Fantastico, from within cpanel, a default theme is put in place. Once you’ve found another theme you want to use to spice up how your blog looks, you will have to first download the theme, and then transfer those files to your webhost to be used. This is called transferring the files and it’s done through a process of FTPing.

FTP simply stands for File Transfer Protocol and it’s just a fancy name for a method of moving files across the internet.

FireFTP is an easy method to do so because it’s an add-on for Firefox and opens within a tab of your browser allowing access to your local files and your remote files.

Local files are those stored on your own computer and remote files are those stored on your webhost server.

Install And Use FireFTP

Your first order of business is to install FireFTP into your firefox browser. If you have not yet made the switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox, now is the time to do so. Fire fox is much more robust, more secure and easily configurable web browser. Even the US govt warn about the dangers of using Internet Explorer. Switch to Firefox now and you wont ever look back.

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Install FireFTP

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Watch this 4m30s video on using FireFTP

I completely understand the confusion about how to ftp, what it means and how to do it when you first begin blogging. Most of us take it for granted as a way to move files across the internet to our webhosts, but for the person new to blogging, I’d like to make ftping as easy to understand as possible. I’ve used both CuteFTP and WS FTP, the latter for years and I’m not only much more happy with FireFTP, I now recommend it as the free ftp client of choice.

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