WebFTP
WebFTP allows you to upload a wide variety of files, letting you bypass "regular channels" for some of them.
Why WebFTP and not "regular" FTP?
Good question. It cuts to the very heart of SBI!.
SBI! "works" because everything is stored in a database. Everything. Every page and every graphic on your page, too. Every block of a page (for block-by-block SiteBuilders). When you upload your HTML, it goes into a database first, and then we build the page, filling in tags, adding javascript, etc.
Everything even remotely associated with that page is in the master database...
Every submission. Every spider visit. Indexing. Page ranking. Incoming links. Outgoing links. Click INs. Click Throughs. Tracker links. Every bit of data collected from every form you build with Form Build It!. Webmail. Every e-zine.
Every single thing you see in Site Central, every bit of data from every module, and a whole lot more that you don't see... it's all in the master database.
It's all about total control for your sake. And that goes so far as to extend right to your domain...
When you register your domain, we need to be the registrar. We don't want to be in "the registrar business," but the SBI! system needs to be able to count on certain matters being handled in a certain way. As in every part of the system, we need to eliminate human errors/variations.
That is what allows all of SBI!'s functionality to be totally integrated. It allows every function to know what every other function is doing. It allows all the automated, repetitive functionality, some of which we don't even publicize to maintain our competitive advantage through customer success, to happen.
WebFTP gives you the convenience of "regular FTP" (well, 99% of it anyway), while still allowing us to make sure there are no variations from the norm that could throw the system off. For example, you could never just FTP up a Web page. We rebuild those pages from the database automatically for a variety of reasons (ex., if you make a NavBar change). That would overwrite any upload of a static HTML Web page.
So, essentially, you use WebFTP to "FTP" into the database.
WebFTP is the best of both worlds... 99% of regular FTP's efficiency with all the benefits of SBI!'s 1,000% results.
For example...
"Quick Upload It!" lets you fast-upload just about every type of file you might want to upload.
- page files -- .html
- SBI! Includes -- .shtml
- image-files -- .gif, .jpg, .png
- support-files -- .css, .flv, .js, .pdf, .swf, .txt, .xml, .zip, .exe
- media-files -- .avi, .mov, .mp3, .mpeg, .mpg, .pps, .ppt, .qt, .ra, .ram, .rm, .wav, .wma, .wmv
Must Read Notice Regarding EXE and ZIP Files
If SiteSell receives a documented (proved) complaint that your .exe or .zip file contains a virus, your SBI! account will be terminated immediately, with no refund. This applies to you even if you upload a file that you did not create yourself.
To protect yourself, run your virus scanner on any .exe file (especially a self-extracting .exe file) or any file(s) contained in a .zip file you plan to upload. If the file is clean, then upload it.
XML It! uploads files that are for RSS use -- you can upload a file with the .rss, .rdf, or .xml extension.
And you can upload the updated HTML files (for that particular SBI! site) that the XML file references, too, to save you from having to switch over to Quick Upload It!.
TXT It! allows you to upload .txt files to the root folder, which normally go to the support-files folder. Alexa gives you the option of changing your contact information by uploading a specific text file to the root of your site. TXT It! gives you the option of uploading .txt files directly to the root.
Quick Preview It! allows you to view your HTML editor-built pages with the content of all the SBI! Includes "included." You can see what the page will look like once the Includes, images, and the style sheet are included.
Fav It! allows you to upload a favicon, so that visitors to your site can see a small icon for your site in their address bar, and also in their bookmarks/favorites folder.
Verify It! lets you upload ownership verification files that Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tools provide. This means no building a page in HTML and uploading with the Upload Your Own HTML module. Download the files from Google and Bing, click a button to navigate to the files, and click an upload button to upload each file.
Special File Manager allows you to manage the media and support files (mentioned above). It also manages SBI! Includes, and images that you uploaded with the Upload Your Own HTML and Quick Upload It! modules.