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The first thing that people will notice when they visit your website for the first time is going to be the way your website is designed.

Graphics are critical to any website. From corporate logos, company branding, and simply having eye-catching graphics and pictures on your site the importance of good graphics cannot be emphasized enough.

If your site is ugly and not pleasing to the eye chances are people click away as soon as they visit and never return again. On the other hand, if your site has too many graphics, over the top flash presentations, and other graphics to get in the way of your website’s content there’s a good chance that people will become distracted and won’t focus on the message that your website is trying to communicate.

The most effective designs are generally simple, nonintrusive, and pleasing to the eye.

There are quite a few different graphic design programs on the market. Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Imageready, and Macromedia Fireworks are a few of the most popular graphic design programs on the market.

If you’re working on a tight budget you might want to check out an open-source program called GIMP. GIMP is free to download and contains many similar features that you’d find a higher priced graphic design programs. It is not quite as powerful as Photoshop or Fireworks but it can handle most of the graphic design needs that you will encounter when designing a website.

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FTP stands for file transfer protocol. FTP programs allow you to connect to your Web server from your computer and transfer files back and forth between your server and your local hard drive.

There are quite a few different FTP programs available. Some of them are free, and some of them aren’t. I highly recommend a program called Filezilla. It’s free, it doesn’t use up very many resources, and it is extremely easy-to-use.

After you install the program you will see an area that asks you for three specific pieces of information. Your hostname, username, and password.

Your hostname is generally going to be the domain name of your website. Your username and password are going to be the same username and password that you use to log in to your hosting control panel.

If you don’t already have a hosting provider I highly recommend Hostgator. They have a 99.9% uptime guarantee, and extremely easy-to-use control panel, and they are one of the most reliable and cost effective hosting companies and industry.

Once you connect to your Web server using an FTP program you’ll want to navigate to the root folder of your website. With most web hosts the root folder will be public_html. Inside this folder you can upload all of your website files anything else that you want to make available to the public.

Using the FTP interface you can easily navigate files and folders on your local computer and quickly upload them onto your Web server.

Using an FTP program is extremely easy to do once you get the hang of it. The files and folders work in the same manner as they do on a computer. Once you start it should only take a couple of minutes for you to get the hang of it.