Web Design
ENG 330
Steps for posting a site
The basic steps:
- Create a directory on your Web server. In our case you should have a folder called public_html on the server that was created for you:
alpha.lasalle.edu
Other IPPs are acceptable.
- Open a copy of an FTP program such as Filezilla. You can do this:
- In the lab at the Windows Start Menu
- OR get a home copy of Filezilla from Filezilla or from
ftpplanet.com
Then set the Profile Name or the Host Name/Address to alpha.lasalle.edu. . Enter your alpha User ID and Password and hit OK. Remember most passwords were reset to the 12345_abc format.
- OR try using the protocol through the browser:
ftp://alpha.lasalle.edu
and then enter your alpha User ID and Password. This won't work in the lab due to firewalls.
- Open your public_html folder on the right (Remote System) window and send your files, both HTML 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. LINUX/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">
- File and folder names that have spaces/gaps. Here browsers will fill them in for you (space = %20 in ASCII) but its bad form. If you want spaces, use the underscore: file_name.html
- Take out any local DOS path information.
<A HREF="A:\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>
- Dont edit files live on the Web. 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 its a good idea to avoid those.)
- Your Web site will then be resident at:
http://www.lasalle.edu/~userdID/file.html where userID = the standard such as beattyj1. If you properly named your first page index.html, here is no need to give the URL as :
http://www.lasalle.edu/~userdID/index.html because the file name is implied by the "/"
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