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Bahá'í Communications
International
5712 Deerfoot Trail
Fort Worth, TX 76131
USA
Copyright © 1996-2005 by BCI. BCI is sponsored by the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Fort Worth, Texas.
Managing your website
You create your website files on your local computer and publish (upload) them using an FTP client program. If you purchased a web development program, you should be able to publish files from within the program itself (which will use the FTP protocol).
In either case, you will have to connect to the internet, specify the host name bci.org supply your BCI username and password. Do not specify your directory name. Your session will start in your "home" directory. Using FTP, you can upload, download, or delete any file or subdirectory within your BCI home directory.
You will copy all of your web files to your home directory. Your master files will still be kept on you local computer, so these will also serve as a backup set should the server crash for any reason.
If you use Microsoft FrontPage to develop your website, you can publish the files using FTP, not using the HTTP method. BCI does not support FrontPage server extensions.
Tips:
- Name your home page either "index.htm". Our web server recognizes these special names, so when a user asks for "www.bci.org/mytown" the server will send "www.bci.org/mytown/index.htm". You can publicize your address as just www.bci.org/mytown.
- While you can work on any platform and use any program to prepare the files, our computer is a Unix platform with case-sensitive filenames. For example, "MyFile.html" is not the same as "myfile.html". Be sure that your HTML code correctly identifies the filenames. The easiest solution is to simply keep every filename in lowercase.
- Don't use spaces in your filenames, like "calendar for year.htm". Instead try "calendar_for_year.htm" or "calendarforyear.htm".