Web Authoring and Publishing: Basics Week 3 & 4

What is the deal? The Whole Process

Step 1: Web Authoring Nvu File name: reflections.html projects.html Index.html .html is for a Unix server; while .htm is for a windows-based server

FTP: File Transfer Protocol Step 2: Publishing FTP: File Transfer Protocol The program you will be using to "load" your file WS_FTP FL (free download in resources page)

Step 3: Find Your URL (Web Address) URL: (Uniform Resource Locator): http://studentweb.cortland.edu/username/filename.html http://studentweb.cortland.edu/water54/project1.html

http:// ? http://studentweb.cortland.edu/water54/project1.html

http:// ? http://studentweb.cortland.edu/water54/project1.html http:// tells the Web-browser to use the hyper-text-transfer-protocol. studentweb.cortland.edu tells the browser to go to the Cortland web-server computer. Username (water54) tells the browser to go to your account on the Cortland web-server computer water54@cortland.edu – the account name is water54. filename.html (project1.html) tells the browser to go to that file on your account.

URL eg: project1.html http://studentweb.cortland.edu/water54/project1.html eg: projects.html http://studentweb.cortland.edu/water54/projects.html eg: index.html http://studentweb.cortland.edu/water54/index.html

Your Homepage: index.html Your Homepage “by default”: http://studentweb.cortland.edu/username/ eg: http://studentweb.cortland.edu/water54/ So: index.html can be omitted in your homepage address (Why?) http://web.cortland.edu/shis/reflections.html List of pages in your website

Task for Today Create your homepage: Publish the homepage: index.html (homepage) Publish the homepage: Know your URLs (the web address of your homepage)

Task for Today: #1 Have a sketch of your website using paper and pencil. Design your main page

Task for Today: #2 Basics of Nvu In pairs/groups, showcase/teach skills you picked up from exploring Nvu.

Task for Today: #3 Publish your homepage

Your Homepage: index.html Your Homepage “by default”: http://web.cortland.edu/username/ eg: http://web.cortland.edu/shis/ http://web.cortland.edu/shis/reflections.html List of pages in your website

URL eg: project1.html http://web.cortland.edu/shis/reflections.html eg: resume.html http://web.cortland.edu/shis/resume.html eg: index.html http://web.cortland.edu/shis/index.html