new & lost.

I'm new to the whole FTP world, and I do need a little help. I figured out how to connect, make folders and upload html files into those folders, but I'm still not quite sure on how I get the html files to show up on the actual site. I've tried double-clicking them & such. if anyone could just tell me how I can do that, so that everytime I go on my supposed URL, it doesn't just say "parent directory" and "cgi-bin."

also, how does the program know which page you want to show up first? as in, splash page before main page. if anyone could help, that'd be great. I've looked at tutorials, but either they are too vague & unhelpful, or I just don't understand what they're talking about. if it's too complicated to explain here, you can just email me at iesserbattles@aol.com. thanks a lot.

To the 1st question, if your hosting gives you an user.hosting.com adress the most likely way of show the webpage is http://username.hosting.com another adress can be http://user.hosting.com/username or http://user.hosting.com/~username to know that you must ask your hosting, we can't know that.

To the second question the program don't know that, that's server configuration, the "which page you want to show up first" can be index.htm, index.html, index.php, index.shtm, index.shtml and few other more extensions, here again the most wise way is looking at your hosting if they have tutorials.