Introduction: After you create a personal Web page you need to put it somewhere so everyone can see it. In most cases, you put or publish your Web page on a Web server running on a computer in a remote location— this computer could be next door or 5,000 miles away. Then, when your friends, family and students want to view your Web page they place a call, sort of like dialing a telephone number, to the Web server by typing in the location of your page into their Internet browser's address field (Figure 1). The remote Web server will, in turn, accept the call and serve (hence the name) the page back to the browser over the Internet. The browser then converts the data and displays the page on each persons computer. Luckily, you don't have to worry too much about how the server and the browser does all of this magic; your only concern is learning how to transfer your Web page files to this remote computer.

At this point you might be wondering, "So, how do I put my Web page on this remote Web server computer? What is the name of this computer? How will I ever learn how to do all of this stuff?

Not to worry! In our computer lab you will use a program on the iMac computers called Fetch to upload your files to the Web server computer called eprentice.sdsu.edu. This server computer is located on the SDSU campus (actually right down the hall!) and runs continuously serving Web pages day and night to whomever requests them. This online guide has been created to help you learn how to use Fetch to upload your Web files to eprentice.sdsu.edu. In fact, weave also included a guide for program called WS_FTP LE just in case you plan to edit your Web pages at home on your Windows machine. Click below to access additional guidance happy publishing!