Web Design and Development
DART/ENG 230

The basic steps:
1. Be sure you have a directory on your Web server. In our case you should have a folder called public_html on the server:
   alpha.lasalle.edu
   
2. Open a copy of Filezilla.
   • OR get a home copy of Filezilla (note it's filezilla-project.org)
     Then set the Profile Name and the Host Name/Address to alpha.lasalle.edu. Host Type can be Automatic Detect or UNIX (Standard). Enter your alpha User ID (one you always use to log on) and Password (format is 1234567.abc where 1234567 = your La Salle ID, dot (no spaces) and first three letters of your user name lowercase) set port = 22 and hit OK. This will link you to
     sftp://alpha.lasalle.edu and later you can use the dropdown to reconnect.
   • OR try using the protocol through the browser:
     ftp://alpha.lasalle.edu
     and then enter your alpha User ID and Password.
3. Open your public_html folder on the right (Remote System) window and send your files, XHTML, CSS and images, over from the left (Local System) side with the arrows or by double-clicking.

Things to watch out for:
• File and folder names that have capitals in them. UNIX often capitalizes the whole name so that:
  File.gif
  becomes FILE.GIF.
  You may also see file.GIF. Neither of these will work if your tag reads:
  <img src="File.gif" /> (and it won't work if your tag is <img src="file.gif" />)
• File and folder names that have spaces/gaps. Here newer browsers will fill them in for you (space = %20 in ASCII) but it’s bad form. If you want spaces, use the underscore: file_name.html
• Take out any local DOS path information.
  <a href="C:\My Documents\website\mypage.html>My page</a>
  will work locally but not live. Delete the drive and reverse the slashes if you do use a directory structure:
  <a href="website/mypage.html">My page</a>. If there's no folder/directory and you will just have the file name <a href="mypage.html">
• Don’t edit files live on the Web and don't Save File As through the browser (it will rename the file with the <title>). Notice that if you View Source live, Notepad will show file.html as file[1].html. If you then save and FTP this file it will probably be changed to file~1.html by UNIX (and not apparent until you FTP it).
• The first file the user will see should be called
  index.html OR index.htm.
  (Others that will work for some browsers include home.htm(l) and default.htm(l) so it’s a good idea to avoid those.)
• Your Web site will then be resident at:
  http://www1.lasalle.edu/~userID/ where userID = the standard such as beattyj1. There is no need to give the URL as :
  http://www1.lasalle.edu/~userID/index.html because the file name is implied by the "/"

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