Web Authoring and Publishing: Basics

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Web Authoring and Publishing Basics

• Week 3

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What is the deal? The Whole Process
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Step 1 Web Authoring

• Netscape Composer
• File name
• reflections.html
• resume.html
• Index.html

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Step 2 Publishing

• FTP File Transfer Protocol
• The program you will be using to "load" your file
• WS_FTP FL

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Step 3 Your URL (Web Address)

• URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
  http//web.cortland.edu/username/filename.html
• http//web.cortland.edu/shis/reflections.html

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http// ?

• http//web.cortland.edu/shis/reflections.html
• http// tells the Web-browser to use the
• hyper-text-transfer-protocol.
• web.cortland.edu tells the browser to go to the
  Cortland web-server computer.
• username tells the browser to go to your account
  on the Cortland web-server computer
• shis_at_cortland.edu -- my account name is shis
• filename.html tells the browser to go to that
  file on your account.

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URL

• eg reflections.html
• http//web.cortland.edu/shis/reflections.html
• eg resume.html
• http//web.cortland.edu/shis/resume.html
• eg index.html
• http//web.cortland.edu/shis/index.html

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Your Homepage index.html

• Your Homepage by default
• http//web.cortland.edu/username/
• eg
• http//web.cortland.edu/shis/

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Task for Today

• Creating
• index.html (homepage)
• reflections.html
• Publishing
• Know your URLs