Welcome to the netINS Showcase. As a contributor, you may use 20 megabytes of disk space to make information available to the world via the World Wide Web.

Your Showcase space is located on showcase.netINS.net (with FTP access through basic.netins.net).

The URL path to your homepage will be:

http://showcase.netins.net/web/your_area_name/

Getting started

First, if you plan to use Microsoft's FrontPage and/or Web Publishing Wizard, please review these notes.

To upload files to your Showcase account from a Windows or Windows 95 machine connected through PPP, we recomment that you use WS_FTP Limited Edition™ (as used in this example) or a similar FTP program. You may also need to get a Zip/Unzip program.

Start up this program and create a new session profile by clicking on the 'new' button. Give the profile a name of "Showcase". Fill in the following information:

Host Name: basic.netins.net
Host Type: Automatic Detect
User ID: Your netINS Username (part of the email address befor the "@")
Password: Your Email Password
Save Password: Check this box if you don't think you can remember your password.

Change into the .web directory by double-clicking on .web. The path at the top right corner of the window should change to show what directory you are in.

The left half of the screen will show your local hard drive. To upload files, first locate the files you want to upload on your hard drive. Note that double-clicking on ".." will take you up one directory level. The path at the top left corner of the window will show you what directory you are currently in. When you have located the files you want to upload, select them and then click on the right-pointing arrow in the center of your screen. This will transfer the files to your Showcase account.

Warning - ws_ftp.ini files contain passwords. Do not upload them into your Showcase area. It makes it really easy for others to break into your Showcase account.

If you are uploading text files, such as HTML documents, you should upload them as ASCII data. If you are uploading graphic files, such as GIF or JPEG images, you should upload them as Binary. If you select "Auto" at the bottom of the screen, it should handle this automatically.

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: Your "home page" must be called index.html and should overwrite the existing index.html file that resides in your .web directory. This will remove the "Already Registered" page that is found when you look at your Showcase site.

Please note that your Showcase files reside on a Unix system, and can not have spaces in the file name. Also, file names are case sensitive. We suggest using all lowercase letters for your file names, such as 'webpage.html' to avoid confusion.

The best place to look for help with your Showcase is the Frequently Asked Questions page.

The USENET newsgroup netins.svc.showcase is the place to ask Showcase related questions.