What is
FTP?
FTP stands for
File Transfer Protocol. It is the method used for transfering a file from one computer
to another computer over the Internet. When you have created a web page, you need
to transfer that file to the Web server and FTP is the method used. However, you
don't use FTP to view the web page, you use HTTP, or Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
(look at your web browser now - you are looking at page http://support.internetdesign.com/hosting/ftp.html.
The http at the start of this is telling you the transfer method being used).
FTP,
like HTTP - removes the problem of cross-platform compatibility. A Mac can read a
file
on an NT server, just as a Windows PC can read a file on an Linux or Unix server.
