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Publishing your pages to the web
Once you have written your web
pages on your own computer, you will need to copy (or upload)
them to the University's web server. The web server is a computer
that has software installed to allow it to serve up web pages to
people browsing the web. By copying your web pages to the web server,
you are making your pages available to people browsing the web.
This process is often referred to as publishing your web pages.
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Getting a username
You will need an account (a username and password)
for the University's unix service to be able to
publish pages to the web server. It is recommended
that you have a username and password set up specifically
for this purpose - contact your Departmental IT
Rep to have an account created for you (IS maintain
a list
of current reps).
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Preparing your new account for publishing
A newly created account (i.e. when you receive a new username
and password) will need setting up to serve web pages. You
will need to log into the Unix service using your new username
and password) and run a program called webinit which
will make the necessary adjustments for you. Read instructions
or see a demo
of this process.
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Publishing your pages
When your account has been set up to serve web
pages you will need software to upload (copy)
your pages and any images to the web server. If
you write your pages in HTML you may want to use
a file transfer program like WS_FTP which is designed
to copy files from one computer to another. If
you use Dreamweaver to write your pages, you can
use Dreamweaver's built in publishing facility
instead.
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a. Using Dreamweaver
When you define a site in Dreamweaver (see demo), or edit the site definition,
you also need to enter information about the web server that you
want to publish to (read instructions
or see a demo). Then you can publish your pages to the web server (see demo). |
b. Using WS_FTP
You can use WS_FTP or another file transfer
program to copy files from your computer
to the web server. First you will need to
specify details about the web server and
the locations of the files on your own computer.
Read instructions
or see a demo
of this process. Further reference
materials on using WS_FTP to publish
are also available.
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As good practice, we would recommend editing your pages on
your own computer and then checking them in the web browser,
before publishing them to the web server and checking them
again as the live version.
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