Great. So we've created a site. Now we want to get it online, okay? We are gonna use, you need a host and a domain name. Okay? So you generally buy those together.

I've got a whole course on buying domain names and hosting. We're just gonna do the quick version here to get you going. Okay? So log into your account. I'm gonna use GoDaddy. It's the world's biggest, most popular hosting.

Um, if you've got something else, it's not far off,  there'll be slight quicks. Okay? So, um, what we're gonna do is I'm going  to log into my, uh, account. Okay? So what I wanna do is go to web hosting. We've already bought our web hosting  and pay for a domain name.

Okay? We've got the basic hosting. Um, gotta  manage Pay for a load. Okay? You're looking for this thing called FTP accounts. Okay?

So file transfer protocol. It's, it's how, how you upload your website  to your hosting service, okay? So you create one, you put in here,  you're gonna call this one testing, you give it your name. It doesn't really matter. It  doesn't have to be an email address. Kind of looks like it, but no,  you just make up anything in here.

Give it a password, make sure it's a really good one. Not like my one here. Okay? Really simple one. I'm gonna go and delete this account just in  case right after this. Now, the big thing when using GoDaddy is that,  can you see it put in our username here?

It's gonna make a subfolder not what I want. Okay? Oh, it needs to go into public under ml. That's kind of traditionally where things go. Okay? Now, if you're using somebody else hosting,  they'll tell you whether it's, um, sometimes it has HT docs  and some names in public.

And nearly always though it has public html. It's like the root of everything that it goes into. Okay? Click create account. Great. And the only thing we need to know now is, well, we need  to remember our username and password.

So let's jump into Dreamweaver. Let's open up our site and go to manage sites. So we were, um, here's Dan's portfolio. We made this right at the beginning, right? That's the one where we,  and here, remember we did the local folder on our hard drive  and we told it where the images went. Now what we're gonna do is go to this one called  servers and then hit plus.

And in here we're gonna call it GoDaddy. It doesn't really matter what you call in here. Um, FTP. Perfect. The FTP address. Now, this can, if you're not using  GoDaddy, this can be different.

Bring your laptop. There's my one.com. Okay? Sometimes it doesn't need the FTP for some hosts, okay? In this case it does. The username was testing  at bring your own laptop.

Now, again, sometimes some,  some hosting just need the username, okay? They don't need all of this junk, uh, password. Put that in. Oops. Yep. And now you're gonna hit test  and you're gonna crush your fingers.

Yay. Connected successfully. Now, that worked for me because I know what I'm doing. Uh, hosting is by far the hardest bit to get set up, okay? Now, don't be afraid if it's still not working. You're like, you've tested it, you've tried without the FTP,  without this username.

Um, other things you can try is  down here, the route directory. Sometimes you need to put in a public html, uh,  slash down here. Sometimes under more options, you do turn off passive FTP. Okay? There's a few little things you can play around with,  but my advice is, is don't stress too far or too long. Just email the hosting company.

Send 'em a screenshot of this here  and say, this is the details I need. What is it? And often they'll just send you the details  to and just plug 'em in. Okay? Um, yeah. So now what you do is hit save, hit done.

Great. Click Okay, great. And now what you do is you go up to site. So it's connected now, but nothing's really happened. Okay? You've got this thing called the local, and you've got this  other one now called Remote.

And that's what we want locals on. Our machine remote is GoDaddy. It's their hosting service. And we go to site and we go to put, okay,  and you hit put, it's gonna go through and connect,  and then it's gonna ask you, would you like  to put up the dependent, uh, dependent folders? Okay? And you click yes.

Dependent files are things like, it's gonna put the HTML up,  but then it needs to put the CSS up. There's other CSS and JavaScript. Uh, it goes through and puts up all the images. I'm gonna hit cancel in this case. Why? Because at the moment I'd upload this weird, not weird,  but this portfolio over top of my so called bring.com.

Uh, yeah, I don't wanna do that. But what you do is that it'd run through, then you'd go  to bring your laptop.com or your URL  and your, your portfolio should be there. Now if it doesn't drop me a line, okay? Um, in the comments and I'll give you a hand. Uh, definitely connecting the server up is the  hardest bit for anybody. Even it's still hard for me.

I hate it when I get a new host  or someone using a client's new host  and I have to work out all the different settings. Alright? That's how to connect a site using GoDaddy. Um, yeah, that'll be it for this video.