Having problem when uploading to ftp site for browsing

[steve.ledger]

/public_html/ is NOT a file. It's a directory. It is the 'root web folder' for your domain and is where your 'files' must reside by default. If visitors type your domain name only (eg: www.yourdomain.com), then the index.htm which should be in that root folder will load in their browser. If you upload to a folder named 'xara' - then your visitors will have to types www.yourdomain.com/xara - but how can they know you did this? No, this is wrong information you have got.
Follow Gary's lead for Network Solutions.

The original designer of my website did it in html.

Xara does it in HTML too.
IOW: You design it in Xara - Xara makes it HTML when your export and publish. The web server doesn't care about this and neither do browsers, they simply read HTML and that's exactly what xara creates from your designs.

[gracehjs]

I don't know if this helps. But my web site is set up as 3 domains. I upload my sites to different directories. The root web file is a file that redirects the domains to the correct place. So, in the root directory I have a file "default.asp" that contains the following.
<%EnableSessionState=False

host = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_HOST")

if host = "gracehjs.com" or host = "www.gracehjs.com" then
response.redirect("http://gracehjs.com/grace/Web-Designer/index.htm")
elseif host = "if1airracing.org" or host = "www.if1airracing.org" then
response.redirect("http://if1airracing.org/If1web/index.htm")

elseif host = "ghjs.info" or host = "www.ghjs.info" then
response.redirect("http://ghjs.info/infohome/default.aspx")

else
response.redirect("http://gracehjs.com/error.htm")

end if
%>
If you are loading your files to a directory "XARA" you need something similar.

[Dazman]

Hi Ray. Out of interest how did you get on getting your site onto the internet? I read your post with interest because I am now in exactly the same position as you werre in October. I have spent some while teaching myself Xara 6 but now I am getting to the stage wherte the site is ready to go live, I am getting different advice from all over the place as to what I need to do and how I do it. This worries me because I would have thought that would be one simple clear process.