February 2006Colby College ITS Publishing a Personal Web Site

February 2006Colby College ITS Topics Creating your site locally Requesting personal web space Moving the site to the server Accessing your site

February 2006Colby College ITS Creating Your Site Locally Create your site on your local computer Example –Home page named “Index.htm” –All picture in a folder named “images” –Various other folders for organizational purposes Complete your site and test it locally

February 2006Colby College ITS Requesting Personal Web Space (1) alhttp:// al Enter your Colby account name Click Submit Your space will be created within 24 hours

February 2006Colby College ITS Requesting Personal Web Space (2) You will receive mail informing you that the space has been created

February 2006Colby College ITS Transferring the Site to a Server (1) Run your FTP program (See FTP Tool Training Tutorials) –Windows WS_FTP –Mac Fetch Check that public_html has been created –This is where your site files will live Move entire directory structure to remote site –Under public_html

February 2006Colby College ITS Transferring the Site to a Server (2) These should now match

February 2006Colby College ITS Accessing Your Site (1) Once you transfer your files to the web server, you can access through a web browser URL will be in the format: – / / –Where is the first letter of your username is your username is the name of the file you transferred (index.html) –Example: – will also workhttp://www/colby.edu/~mregnell

February 2006Colby College ITS Accessing Your Site (2) Example: will also work

February 2006Colby College ITS Questions? Comments? Contact: Mel Regnell ext