Be sure that you’ve given me your e-mail address and other personal information on hard copy. We’ll run through the process of checking on the space for your Web sites next class. If you did not have Web space (a public_html folder), you would need to run an SSH (secure shell protocol) session (via puTTy on a PC or the Terminal utility on a Mac) to create a public_html directory on the alpha server.
Your alpha password should be 1234567.abc where 1234567 is your La Salle ID number, then a period/dot, then the first three letters of your last name, lowercase. No spaces. Some students were given an earlier password of the form 12345_abc, in which 12345 = first five numbers of your Social Security Number, then an underscore, then first three letters of your last name, so try that as well.However, our IT folks have created a public_html folder for you (in most cases). So you can use Filezilla (FTP or File Transfer Protocol client) to see if the public_html is there. If you haven’t got a copy of Filezilla at home, go to Fillezilla-project.org and download the free version. If that download fails, try getting Filezilla from SourceForge. When you log on here or at home, set the Host Name to:
alpha.lasalle.edu,
and use your regular ID and your alpha password (1234567.abc format) and Port = 22. Alternatively, you can set the host to
sftp://alpha.lasalle.edu (Q: What does the "S" stand for?) and then you can leave Port blank. You can also try to use ftp through the browser at sftp://alpha.lasalle.edu, but not while on campus.
Here is a site with training links to most everything a Web developer might need to know: bento, and here is an extensive tutorial on everything HTML and CSS called Interneting is Hard (!).
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