Please note this very important item... if you intend to use FrontPage for your site, you should never publish to your site with FTP.  Publishing to your site with an FTP client can result in corruption of the FrontPageServerExtensions necessary for FrontPage to work properly. 

To FTP using any standard FTP client:

1. Configure your FTP client with: ftp username/password, server, and directory.  Again, how and where you do this will vary from FTP client to FTP client, so sonsult your FTP client's documentation for specific instructions on how to use that client. 
   • your ftp username/password (this is available in your Welcome Email, and on the MyAccount pages under Plesk/FTP passwords if you can't find your Welcome Email.
   • the server to FTP to... some FTP clients will call this by different names: remote server, ftp server, destination server, etc..  In short, they just mean what server are you pushing files to.  In this scenario, it means the hostname or IP address we are hosting your server on.  In your welcome email, we would have provided you the name of the server you'd be hosted on.. something like web14.3essentials.com or similar.  This is that server name.  Note, if DNS has already replicated for your site, you can acutally use ftp.yourdomain.com (where "yourdomain.com" = your actual domain name). 
   • directory... again, this is another term that FTP clients will give different names: working directory, home directory, root directory, web-root directory, etc..  In short, it just means, after you make an ftp connection to the server, which directory should the ftp client push your webfiles into.  For us, this is the "httpdocs' directory.
2. Once that information is configured, publish/put the files to the destination server.  Again, this process will vary from client to client, consult the documentation of your specific client for details.

To FTP using Internet Explorer

1. Open Internet Explorer
2. Type the following into the address bar
   • ftp://webX.3essentials.com/httpdocs
   • Note that WEBX should be replaced with your webserver name, like web14, or web12, etc.  In your welcome email, we would have provided you the name of the server you'd be hosted on.  Note, if DNS has already replicated for your site, you can acutally use ftp.yourdomain.com (where "yourdomain.com" = your actual domain name). 
3. You should then get a pop-up prompting you for your login credentials, enter your ftp username and password, click OK.
   • your ftp username/password (this is available in your Welcome Email, and on the MyAccount pages under Plesk/FTP passwords if you can't find your Welcome Email.
4. This should cause Internet Explorer to open the httpdocs folder on your site in a Windows Explorer type view.   You can copy/paste files from your computer directly to this window just like you copy/paste any files around your computer.
   • move the Internet Explorer FTP window to one side of your desktop, open a Windows Explorer window, and navigate to where your website files are. 
   • Select your website files, select EDIT, COPY.
   • Select the Internet Explorer FTP window, click into an open area of the HTTPDOCS folder to select it... then click EDIT, PASTE.

If you have questions or need further assistance, please open a Support ticket.