Welcome to A4DeskPro User Guide
What's New in A4DeskPro
Getting Started
System Requirements
Downloading and Installing A4DeskPro
Starting A4DeskPro
Take a Tour
Registering A4DeskPro Flash Website Builder
Purchasing a Valid License
Registration
Downloading and Installing Additional Bonus Programs
End User License Agreement for License Key
Using A4DeskPro Flash Website Builder
Creating a New Project
Opening and Editing Existing Projects
Creating and Editing Main Information
Inserting Site and Content Page Image
Creating or Editing Other Elements of the Web Page
Creating a Contact Form
Adding multiple photos using built-in gallery
Adding videos using built-in video player
Create a shopping cart
Creating a pop-up window of a specific size
Adding a Paypal link
Linking other flash products
Using the Font Settings Button
Working with HTML
Publishing a Site
Publishing a Site to FTP
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Publishing a Site to FTP

You can publish and upload your site to FTP directly from A4DeskPro. It is easy, simple and convenient.

To Open the Publish and Upload to FTP

  1. Click the FTP button or click the Publish and Upload to FTP   button on the Toolbar or select Publish to FTP from the File menu. The Default FTP Settings dialog is displayed. You can also set the default FTP settings by selecting FTP Settings from the Options menu. Note: If you have not put in the FTP information, the Default FTP Settings dialog will pop up automatically. You can also open this dialog by clicking FTP Settings from the Options menu.

  1. You can choose an upload option :

  2. Put in the FTP information under the Default FTP Settings (FTP Host/ Login/ Password/ Default Host Directory) and then click Test Connection to test the connection. The Test Connection Result will be shown on the bottom. When the connection is successful, click OK.

  3. For Default Host Directory field, this is to fill in the server root directory path. Normally, it will be "/" or "/htdocs/" or "/public_html/" or "/var/www/html/". However, some share webhosting may use the username or domain name as the path for easy management, you should check this out with your webhosting company and ask them to give you the full path to your root directory.

    e.g. Yahoo Web Hosting will like "/{username}/".

  4. In some case, you may still fail in uploading, this may due to your webhosting server limitation, some webhosting may have limit in creating folder, 2MB limit for each file, or filename naming, in that case, you should contact your webhosting company about this issue and ask for solution.

A4DeskPro Built-in FTP wizard

  1. Once you can connect your FTP server, the Publish To FTP dialog opens.

  1. You can select the remote folder

  2. Click Upload to upload your files to web server.

  3. Once you can upload the files successfully, it will tell you "Upload Complete".
  4. Click Close to return.

Windows FTP (require installation of MSIE 5.x or 6.x)

  1. You can use the Internet Explorer's FTP feature to upload files (Note: It requires IE 5.x or 6.x)

  1. You can find all your existing FTP files on the left window.
  2. Select files you want to upload on the right and drag them to the left.
  3. After upload is completed, click Return to A4DeskPro button to return.

External FTP software

1. You can choose your own FTP software by clicking Browse button and click OK.

2. It will start the choosen FTP software automatically.

Necessary file when upload manually using 3rd party FTP software

1. index.html

2. index.swf

3. index.xml

4. AC_RunActiveContent.js

5. a4content (whole folder)