FTP Information for Filezilla

If you're a web designer I'm pretty sure you already know this trick. It's called FTP!

My very first geocities website yearssss ago was free and I had to upload everything 1 at a time... CLICK CLICK CLICK... water break... click click click click... 2 hours later your site is live... Ugg!

Now days they have awesome programs like cyberduck and filezilla! Basically you just drag, drop, DONE! You just sit back and watch it upload.  The only tricky thing is figuring out your FTP settings.

1. Enter your FTP host in the "Address" field, like this: ftp.YourDomainHere.com (replace YourDomainHere.com with your own domain name). 
2. In the "User" field, enter your FTP user ID. Your user ID is a combination of your Yahoo! ID and your domain, such as name@YourDomainHere.com (replace name with your Yahoo! ID, and YourDomainHere.com with your own domain name). 
3. Enter your Yahoo! password in the "Password" field.

Mozilla’s Thunderbird 2 email application

Mozilla’s Thunderbird 2 Email Application - How to install it on a mac using Gmail. Then add an email signature with images.
Note: This looks like A LOT of stuff, but it shouldn't take you more than 5 minutes to do it.
 

Tip: Before you begin Please make sure you know your email login and password (write it down)

• Step 1: Download the Mozilla Thunderbird 2 Email application Here: http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird.Then Click OK to save it on your computer.
  
• Step 2: Wait for Mozilla’s Thunderbird to download, it took my fast internet about a minute.
• Step 3: Go to the place where you downloaded the file (File Name: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23.dmg), files should save to your desktop by default. Double click Mozilla’s Thunderbird file you downloaded to your desktop to open it (File Name: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23.dmg). It will open and mount to your computer. Just give it a minute to load the next screen.
  
  When Mozilla’s Thunderbird is fully mounted it should give you a splash screen, go ahead and click the Thunderbird icon and it will load the program for you. The splash screen looks like this:
   
• Note: Surprise! It will also show up in your bottom menu with all of your other programs.
  
• Step 4: Setting up Mozilla Thunderbird with your personal information. I'll be using Gmail as my reference.

• You should have a screen that popped up after the last step; Mounting Mozilla’s Thunderbird.
• The first Prompt after that asks if you want to import settings and mail folders from older email clients. Click Don't Import Anything and then continue.
  
  
• Choose your Information. Note: I'm making this tutorial for a friend needing help setting up Gmail, so I will use Gmail as my guide. Select Gmail (or whatever) then Continue.
  
• Now it's time for you to enter in your personal data. Hopefully you remember your login and password. It's a real hassle if you don't put in the correct information the first time (You'll get pop ups saying wrong password... ect.)
• If everything worked, your next screen should be a Congratulations message asking to download your emails. I'm going to click yes, so I can see all of my messages. Then hit Done.
  
• As soon as you hit done, it will prompt you to enter your password. If you want your computer to remember your password I say go ahead and check the Use Password Manager to remember this password, it's up to you. If you choose to click save password it will give a pop up remender (just hit ok).
  
  
  
• Hit OK. You should be logged in and your messages should be in the inbox!

How to Attach an email signature using Mozilla Thunderbird

• Step 1: Save your HTML email signature in a safe place on your computer. Make sure not to delete it or your email client (Mozilla’s Thunderbird) wont know what to do. I suggest making a folder inside my documents called Email Signature and saving it there for safe keeping.
  
• Step 2: Open Mozilla Thunderbird and go to Tools > Account Settings
  
  
• Step 3: Now you are going to add your signature!!!!
• Click on Gmail at the left to have it show all of your options on the right. We will be adjusting these Gmail options.
  
• Click the Attach Signature box
• Click Choose - Navigate through your computer files to find the HTML signature file you saved (I recommended saving it in my documents) and hit open.
  
• Now you are back in your email options > Hit Ok (Image Above)
• YOUR NEW SIGNATURE SHOULD BE ADDED TO YOUR EMAILS NOW!
• Compose a new email to check it out! A quick way to test it is sending an email to yourself. Then you know if Mozilla’s Thunderbird saved everything correctly (including passwords).
  

Note: If Mozilla Thunderbird asks you to send plain text or html--choose html or your pictures wont show up. It asked me this on my first outgoing message using the new signature with images.