Choosing the Best Method of Publishing Content

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With Globat, you have many options in getting your web site online. The most common ways are explained below.

Table of contents

1 GloBuild 2 Globat Gallery 3 FTP 4 FrontPage, Dreamweaver, and other web design applications 5 Globat File Manager

GloBuild

GloBuild is an easy-to-use web application that comes free with every Globat account. It allows you to create a web site with a professional look generally in less than an hour. A web site created with GloBuild would often cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars if created instead by a professional web designer. It's incredibly easy to create your site with GloBuild using the built-in templates and style customizations. Visit our Using GloBuild guide for information on getting your site ready with this application.

Globat Gallery

Sharing photographs with family, friends, and even potential customers is a great way to keep in touch or help make a sale. With Globat, we allow you to use up to your full storage limit (quota) for storage of photographs in customized albums. Globat Gallery is designed so that you can get your photos up in virtually no time at all. Your photos will load at photos.example.com (...replacing example.com with your Globat domain name). View our tutorial on Using Globat Gallery.

FTP

FTP stands for file transfer protocol. It has been used for decades in UNIX environments, and since the introduction of the world wide web in the early nineties, it is now also the standard for uploading web sites on both Windows and Macintosh computers. But don't let this frighten you... FTP is incredibly easy to use once you set it up.

For information on setting up and using FTP, visit Using third party software or our generic FTP instructions.

Recent versions of Internet Explorer have an FTP program built-in. Learn how to use Internet Explorer for FTP.

FrontPage, Dreamweaver, and other web design applications

FrontPage, Dreamweaver, and many other web design applications use the industry standard FTP to get your web site online. Once you have completed your web site using one of these third-party applications, you can simple publish it with the press of a single button, after entering your Globat FTP information.

View our instructions on setting up FrontPage and Dreamweaver (and other third-party software) or view our generic FTP instructions for setting up other software applications.

Globat File Manager

Globat File Manager can be useful in at least two major situations...

• Uploading a file to your site while away from your home computer (for example, you're in a library or Internet cafe, or at a friend's house).
• You're a programmer and you want to edit your HTML files, Perl files, PHP scripts, or any text other file on your web site.

Globat File Manager is an incredibly powerful tool not found on other hosts. It supports multiple file upload, meaning you can add more than one file to your site at a time. You can also change file permissions, which is very useful for web programmers. Please see our full guide on File Manager.