uploading joomla

some people upload the joomla zip file then extract it, but i don't know how to do that :(

usually i just upload the whole joomla directory onto the public_html folder. it takes a while to upload, so you may have to refresh it a few times. 

i started uploading to this new site about an hour ago, and i'm still at 20%. at this rate, it may take me up to 5 or 6 hours to upload the whole directory completely. *sigh*