1. Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: 410-455-3838 Email: oit@umbc.edu oit@umbc.edu Web Publishing @ UMBC Uploading your personal web pages

2. Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: 410-455-3838 Email: oit@umbc.edu oit@umbc.edu These procedures are only for personal web pages They are not recommended for use in official UMBC, SGA, or other organizations’ web sites.

3. Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: 410-455-3838 Email: oit@umbc.edu oit@umbc.edu Web page vs. web site: Web page: A document on the World Wide Web. Every Web page is identified by a unique URL (Uniform Resource Locator). Web Site: A site (location) on the World Wide Web. Each Web site contains a home page, which is the first document users see when they enter the site. The site might also contain additional documents and files. Each site is owned and managed by an individual, company or organization

4. Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: 410-455-3838 Email: oit@umbc.edu oit@umbc.edu HTML: Short for Hypertext Markup Language, the authoring language used to create documents on the World Wide Web. URL: Abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator, the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web. The first part of the address indicates what protocol to use, and the second part specifies the IP address or the domain name where the resource is located.

5. Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: 410-455-3838 Email: oit@umbc.edu oit@umbc.edu Personal vs. Departmental web sites Differences…

6. Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: 410-455-3838 Email: oit@umbc.edu oit@umbc.edu Personal web sites… Hosted from your personal space on gl.umbc.edu Only you decide what content to publish Business web sites are PROHIBITED Sharing your account or password with anyone is against the UMBC Responsible Computing Policy

7. Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: 410-455-3838 Email: oit@umbc.edu oit@umbc.edu Official UMBC Web sites Should not be kept in personal space Used for official business content May require a team of staff to develop content, construction and maintenance

8. Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: 410-455-3838 Email: oit@umbc.edu oit@umbc.edu SGA Sponsored organizational sites… Hosted on the web server sta.umbc.edu Contact Office of Student Life at x5-3463) Organization Account Information FAQ at http://sta.umbc.edu/technology.shtml http://sta.umbc.edu/technology.shtml

9. Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: 410-455-3838 Email: oit@umbc.edu oit@umbc.edu Department web sites… Hosted in the OIT web server Contact OIT (helpdesk@umbc.edu or 455-3838)helpdesk@umbc.edu The New Media division will assist your department in getting started

10. Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: 410-455-3838 Email: oit@umbc.edu oit@umbc.edu FrontPage 2000 Easy to use WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) Important settings… Turn off Microsoft Front Page Extensions – UMBC uses Apache web server Publish Web… feature makes it easy to upload your pages

11. Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: 410-455-3838 Email: oit@umbc.edu oit@umbc.edu Set the Page Options: Under Tools menu choose Page Options… Set the Browsers Set Apache Server Disable Front Page Server Extensions Compatibility:

12. Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: 410-455-3838 Email: oit@umbc.edu oit@umbc.edu Viewing the page The Normal tab shows the web page in progress

13. Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: 410-455-3838 Email: oit@umbc.edu oit@umbc.edu Viewing the HTML code The HTML tab shows the raw HTML coding

14. Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: 410-455-3838 Email: oit@umbc.edu oit@umbc.edu Pre-viewing the page The Preview tab shows the final appearance Check your page before it is published

15. Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: 410-455-3838 Email: oit@umbc.edu oit@umbc.edu How and where to publish your pages You may easily copy all your files to your www directory using the Publish Web… feature of Front Page. Students may publish web pages in your gl account, in your /public/www directory.

16. Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: 410-455-3838 Email: oit@umbc.edu oit@umbc.edu Using the Publish feature Choose File>Publish Web… Use ftp://gl.umbc.edu/~username/wwwftp://gl.umbc.edu/~username/www Put your email account instead of username Click Publish button to upload