When you send all of your HTML files from your computer to your IofM.net account, you're doing what's called "uploading." Let's say you have an HTML file on your computer. You use the File Manager to send a copy of that file from your hard drive to IofM.net's computer. Since IofM's computer is connected directly to the Internet, people who know the address of your page can go to it and view it on their browsers. The address might look something like this:

"Downloading" works the opposite way. Instead of sending a file from your computer to another computer, you're receiving it. Therefore, when you go look at a Web site, what you're actually doing is downloading a bunch of HTML files and pictures and sounds to your computer.

You can also use your own program to upload and download things. The program we recommend in using is called WS FTP. A shareware is available to download for free by going here.

The great thing about the Web is how fast it is. Once you upload your files, they are there on the Internet, available to whomever wants to look at them. And if you notice that you spelled "television" wrong or something, you can change the HTML file, upload the corrected copy, and the change will appear on people's browsers right away.