Creating your "home" page (index.html)

1. Open NOTEPAD
   1. Compose your HTML tags and text
   2. Save the file as a plain text file named: index.html  Remember the directory where it gets saved.
2. Open FTP (or for Mac users, Open "Fetch")
   1. In the "Local" or "From" window, locate the file you created in step 3.
   2. In the "Remote" or "To" window, double-click on the public_html directory folder icon
   3. Click on the ASCII or Text mode transfer option
   4. Click on the transfer icon (in WSFTP it looks like an arrow pointing to the right)
3. Test the Caching rules
   If you don't do this you won't see your changes. Remember that this change is ONLY saved on the computer you DO IT ON, not in the files you are looking at.
   1. In Internet Explorer
      Click on Tools/Internet Options/Temporary Internet Files-Settings and specify: "Every visit to the page". Then click on "OK"
   2. In Netscape
      Click on Edit/preferences then on the "+" next to "Advanced" then click on "Cache" then select "Every Time". Then click "OK".
4. Test your changes
   Navigate to your page and display it.
   If all is OK, you're done, otherwise,
   1. go back to notepad and repeat steps 1a and b, step 2d and then
   2. click on Refresh or Reload in your browser.

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