1. Creating and Publishing Your own web site PC Version SEAS 001 Professor Ahmadi

2. Project Overview Create a basic web page using a “text editor” Publish web page to GW school server Edit web page using an open source HTML editor Create several links from basic web page to: –Your ECE001, MAE001, APS001 presentation –Your resume –Your schedule Present web site to SEAS 001 classmates

3. Overview of Creating a web site STEP1: Create web page on your personal workstation STEP2: Upload “publish” web page to web server (at GWU: cobweb.seas.gwu.edu) STEP2 STEP1 STEP3: Web page can now be viewed anywhere on the Internet STEP3

4. Create Folder to store web pages on Local PC Open up “My Computer” icon Look for the “T:” drive Create a Folder called: web site Do this by going to “File->New Folder”  If you do not have a “T:” drive, simply use the “C:” drive You will save all your web related work in this folder. With the T: drive, you can login to any seas machine and see your web site folder

5. Creating Main Web page The main web page must be called: index.html It is a simple text file, we can use any text editor to create On a PC, we use Notepad to create this file, DO NOT use an editor like MSWord

6. Writing HTML HTML is the language web browsers like the Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari can read It uses opening and closing “TAGS” to identify different sections of a web page. Example, to mark the TITLE of a web page: Main web page Opening TAG Closing TAG

7. Writing HTML Open Up Notepad type what you see below Save the file as: T:\web site\index.html Open a web browser and view the file by typing: T:\web site\index.html

8. Writing HTML – Adding a Link To add a “Link” to a web page, we use the following TAG sequence: GWU web site This will add “HYPERLINK” to your web page T:\web site\index.html

9. Uploading web page to web server To “publish” our web page, we transfer the file: index.html to the GWU SEAS web server To do this, we use a “Secure File Transfer Client” or SFTP The SEAS’s SFTP server is called: cobweb.seas.gwu.edu Your seas username and password are required to login For Home, free SCP clients are available from: PC users: http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~seas001/fall07/downloads/winscp405.exe http://winscp.net/eng/download.php Mac users: http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~seas001/fall07/downloads/Cyberduck-2.8.1.dmg http://cyberduck.ch/

10. Open up SFTP Client Connect to web server 1. From Desktop, click on: SSH Secure File Transfer Client 2. Once the SFTP Client opens, Click on the “QUICK CONNECT” button Host: cobweb.seas.gwu.edu Username: your seas username, then connect!

11. Uploading web page to web server Type in T:\web site in the box at the top Drag index.html to public_html folder YOUR PC SEAS Server: cobweb.seas.gwu.edu

12. Viewing your web site Open a web browser, and open the web address: http://www.student.seas.gwu.edu/~tfarmer/index.html index.html is now published on the Internet Any file placed under the folder: public_html will be published on the Internet, so anyone will Be able to view them! Change: tfarmer to your seas username

13. HTML Editors Manually typing HTML files is tedious To produce more interesting web pages, quickly, an HTML editor is needed There are many different commercial HTML editors: Dreamweaver, Microsoft Front Page For this class, we will use an “open source” editor called: N View We must download and install this editor on your local workstation

14. 14 Download Open Source HTML Editor Download PC version from: http://net2.com/nvu/download/nvu-1.0-win32-full.zip Download MAC version from: http://bluegriffon.org/freshmeat/1.5.2/bluegriffon-1.5.2.mac.dmg Download other versions from: http://net2.com/nvu/download.html http://net2.com/nvu/download.html Download the ZIP file to your Desktop, or press “open” to install

15. Install Open Source Editor on PC After downloading… Double click on: nvu-1.0-win32-full.zip Extract all files to c:\temp\nvu Click NEXT… this takes about 30 seconds

16. Startup Editor Run file: c:\temp\nvu\nvu-1.0\NVU.EXE

17. Using the HTML Editor Open the file: T:\web site\index.html

18. Using the HTML Editor index.html is shown as it would be in a web browser You no longer need to use “TAGS”, one can simply enter text or graphics By clicking on the “Source” tab, the HTML code can be viewed

19. Creating Schedule web page Create a new page Save it as: T:\web site\schedule.html

20. Linking index.html to schedule Switch back to index.html Type “My Schedule” and highlight the text Click on the “LINK” button Save the changes

21. Link to schedule.html 1. Click on “Choose File” 2. Choose the schedule.html file, then click open 3. Click on OK when done

22. Links Links can be to: –1) Another web page –2) Another web site –3) Any type of file Example: a power point presentation, document, excel file, movie file, etc. The link we just created is an example of linking index.html to another “file” called: schedule.html

23. Update Schedule Page Switch back to your “schedule” page Use the “Table” icon to create a schedule similar to the one on the left Save the changes when have finished making changes Click on the “Source” tab to see the HTML code for the table

24. Publish Schedule web page Using the SFTP client, upload index.html and schedule.html to public_html Any changes you make to the files on your PC must be “re-uploaded” to publish the changes

25. To Do During Lab Create a page called: resume.html –If you already have a resume, download it to the T:\web site folder Link resume.html to your index.html page Create a power point presentation describing your ECE, MAE, EMSE, etc. project –Create a link from index.html to your presentation file Add your Matlab results in the form of a word document from the SEAS matlab project from weeks 2 and 5 Class Schedule (This semester or next semester) Personal (Major/Interests/Photo); can be deleted after the presentation. Major and Its Description Links to: –Department web site, Student Activity Groups, Professional Associations, Hobbies/Interests Customize your index.html (Professional Look) Publish all the above files to your web site Be prepared to present your web site, and power point presentation on Dec. 7th NOTE: All presentations MUST be done from the web page. Large videos may be an exception. (We recommend uploading videos to YouTube for easy access) NOTE: This is the suggested assignment for your work during the lab. However, please refer to the project presentation and report guidelines for the detailed list of required content for your webpage.project presentation and report guidelines