Although not new the writing web pages, I am new to purchasing and accessing a host service. All my other work is done through my university and they have their own servers.
When I logged into my ftp client the first thing I saw was a lot of unfamiliar folders, ie., email, www, private, public, etc. and a few files. My goal was to go in and begin setting up my folders that will house the web page I am developing. What I uploaded were 3 folders, one an image folder with only 4 or 5 small images, and inc folder with a one or two docs, an index.php, header.inc and one other. It seemed to take a longer time than I would have expected to get them copied over, but then I decided to delete them and that seemed to taken even longer until finally I received an error telling me "blocking call cancelled" and "retrieve of folder listing failed." What happened? What did I do? When I call up the domain in my browser I still get the parent directory/folder listing, so I'm not sure what has/is taking place up there.
I deleted what I uploaded because I wasn't sure which folder, if any I was suppose to put everything in. Can someone please give me some direction and thought on what's going on? This should have been, I'm sure, a very SIMPLE task, yet on my first attempt, I've failed miserably