Directions for using WS_FTP Pro version 5.0. Directions for the Classic Interface will also work for version 4.5.   There are two different interfaces in WS_FTP -- the Classic and the Explorer. The Explorer interface becomes part of the Windows file management program called Windows Explorer, which has an icon of a manila filefolder with a light blue magnifying glass over it and which usually appears at the end of your Start Menu. If you are accustomed to using the Windows Explorer program for managing your files, then using WS-FTP Pro Explorer is a good idea. If you don't feel comfortable with Windows Explorer, I'd suggest that you use the so-called Classic interface on WS_FTP Pro.   To use the Classic interface: Be sure you are logged onto the Internet through your ISP. Open your Start Menu and bring up the Programs menu. From that bring up the WS_FTP Pro Menu. You will see an icon for WS-FTP Pro on it (a black square with red and blue arrows inside a couple yellow rings). Click on that and it will open WS_FTP to its Classic interface. You will see a WS_FTP Pro window with a left half for the Local System and a Right Half for the Remote System. A smaller window called Session Properties should be superimposed on that. You need to fill out the Session Properties. First click on New and the entries will clear. Fill in "Profile Name:" with say CMC Fill in "Host Name/Address:" with projects.ilt.columbia.edu Host Type should say Automatic detect Fill in "User ID:" with tu5020b Fill in "Password:" with xxxxxx (using for xxxxxx the password I sent you a week or so ago). Click in the box next to "Save Pwd" The Click OK The Session Properties window should disappear, you should see some messages flash by at the lower left of the the WS_FTP Pro window and then the program will sound a chime or express a perplexed "oh-o" depending on whether the connection was or was not successful. If you were not successful in connecting, click on the Connect button at the bottom and check that the Session Profile was filled out correctly. If you still have problems, let me know.   To use the WS_FTP Pro Explorer interface: Open Windows Explorer. Look on the left window for an icon with red and blue arrows inside yellow rings (no black background) for WS_FTP Pro Explorer. Highlight it and at the top-left of the Windows Explorer window it will say "Exploring - WS_FTP Pro Explorer." Click on the File Menu just below that and then on the Add Site option. This will start a wizzard for adding a site. Screen 1 -- give a name, say CMC. Click Next. Screen 2 -- give a host, projects.ilt.columbia.edu. Click Next. Screen 3 -- click on the box next to Anonymous to make the check go away and it will then be possible to fill in the box under "Enter user name to log in as:" with tu5020b. The fill in "Enter the password to use:" with xxxxxx (using for xxxxxx the password I sent you a week or so ago). Then click on the box next to "Save Password." Click Next. Screen 4 -- review entries to see that the Name, Host, and User Name are correct. Click Finish if they are, Click Back if they need to be corrected. The course directory and your subdirectories will then be visible as if they were directories on your local machine and you can move files back and forth with the Windows Explorer as you would from one local directory to another. Once you have reached projects.ilt.columbia.edu/tu5020b/ use the following directions to transfer an index.html file to your subdirectory. Each of you has a subdirectory /amy /julie /carol /jen /donna /robbie /allison /larisa /nicol /kevin_t /kathy /gene /kevin_w Permissions are set so the locations are visible to the world. You can access the site using FTP, identifying yourself with the User Name and password that I have sent to you separately. This gives you full privileges (read, write, add, delete, etc.) for the /tu5020b directory and all the subdirectories. Please exercise those privileges only with respect to your own subdirectory. To reach your subdirectory, you will need to Change Directory to the correct subdirectory listed above. Your FTP program will then permit you to perform standard file transfer functions, uploading and downloading, changing the names of files, deleting them, etc. (Please Remember: To get the files you transfer into your subdirectory, you will need to ChgDir down to that subdirectory before actually transferring the files.) It is a standard convention in HTML for the top page in a directory to have the name index.html. I am setting up the Class Participant page with pointers after each of your names with the following URL -- http://projects.ilt.columbia.edu/tcclasses/tu5020b/[yourname]/index.html. If you name the top level HTML page you create and transfer to your directory index.html and have it control access to other files you put up there, you can completely manage materials in your directory without any further change of the main course files (unless of course that is needed for some special purpose that occurs to you as our work proceeds). If you update your index.html file, just transfer the new one to your subdirectory, overwriting the old one.