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PTCI Community is available free to all high speed Internet and dial up customers. Our goal is to provide the tools and features that make it effortless for you to establish a real online presence and to create a connection with friends and family around the world. Please visit http://www.ptci.net/community/ to login.
 Features of Community 101
Change Password
This feature allows you to change your password instantly. Supply your old password for security purposes, then specify a new password (twice to check for accuracy) and click the "Change Password" button.
File Manager
"File Manager" is a powerful Web development tool made simple and is accessible to all site developers. With Community "File Manager" you can quickly upload files from your local drive by simply clicking File Upload button and choosing desired file to put online.
With the same simplicity and click of a button you can delete, and modify/edit all of your uploaded files. Just check the box next to the file to be deleted or modified and click the appropriate button for desired action.
Personalize Front Page
Community users can personalize their front page and get RSS Feeds from major news and information vendors including CNN, ABC, BBC and USA Today.
RSS feeds can be easily updated after logging in. Simply check the box next to the feeds you want to be displayed at your front page and click Save and Return button. To remove a particular feed from your front page follow similar procedure: uncheck the box of the feed you want to remove and click Save and Return button.
You can choose among International, National, Local and Business news as well as Entertainment and Sports reviews.
Front Page Support
You may publish directly from FrontPage to your PTCI Community. Once you click on Activate FrontPage button you can momentarily take advantage of the features enabled by the FrontPage Server Extension such as making changes to your website without having to use FTP tools.
Microsoft Office 2000 users can also publish their Word 2000 documents, Excel 2000 spreadsheets, and PowerPoint 2000 presentations directly to their PTCI sites.
Disk Usage
Community Members can check to see if they are nearing the disk storage limit established for members.
Download Archive
This is a great tool for members who wish to download all their files either in Tar or Gzip format.
Tools needed to FTP to Community.
You will need an FTP client. You can click here to download WS-FTP (This is one of my
favorites). You can also download other FTP client software programs from:
Tucows | Download.com | Jumbo!
The first thing you will need to do is open up your FTP client. Fill in the hostname
as www.ptci.net and type in your username and password. Make sure the
Anonymous box is not checked. Click OK and you should see something similar
to the picture below. Click OK to connect.
You should now be connected and
see something similar to picture below.
On the left side is your computer and on the right is the Community server.
You need to call your first web page index.html. If you don't name it index.html, your
page will not be viewable from the Internet.
You now need to double click the file index.html, it should appear on the right.
As soon as you double click the file it will be uploaded to ptci. You will see this
You should now see your index.html file on both the left and right side. Be sure to also transfer images that are associated with your homepage. Your homepage
will now be viewable at the following address; http://www.ptci.net/username/
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