Quick Steps Overview:

• Whatever system you use as your web server will have policies on do's and don'ts. Check with your system administrator for your web server as to the latest policies.
• Also ask your system administrator for your web site to issue you a web account with a host address, a username and password. The administrator will provide you with a specific labeled area on the web server's hard drive that only someone with your account data will be able to enter. Unless you give this information to someone else, only you and the administrator will be able to access it. The administrator will only be in your file area if there our problems with your account.
• Place your files in your account area on the hard drive of a remote computer that is running web server software. This is also referred to as publishing your web pages.

Move files into your account area

There are many applications that enable online file transfer between computers. Macintosh options include:
• Fetch (an application)
• Go, a built-in feature of the Mac operating system.

Other Issues

Though web pages (.html files) should be sent in Text format. All other files (images, sounds, video, application files) should be sent in binary format. By clicking the Automatic box, the computer will determine which is which in case you are not sure.

Your FTP file management window can be timed out. That is, when the Server's FTP application determines that you have not recently used your connection to it, it can close the connection automatically and without warning. If this happens, just log-in again and proceed.

Change Password

Every system will have a way for you to periodically change your password. For the paws.wcu.edu server, use a browser to go to this address, http://paws.wcu.edu/apply.asp,  and click the link to Change your PAWS account password.

Use A Browser (e.g., Netscape) to Test Your Account's Web Pages

1. To test the success of your uploading, use a web browser such as the SeaMonkey or Netscape program. In the location window at the top of the screen, you may need to enter the address to the web file that you just placed in your account area and tap the return key. The format is: domain name, account name and file name separated by slashes.
2. For the address of your web files, you will need to add your own username, but the address might look something like one of these:

 

http://www3.wcu.edu/~Houghton/index.html

http://152.30.16.200/~QT17943/home.html

http://www.somewhere.com/Smith/assignments.html

Your web page with its latest changes should appear. If it does not, then you will need to return to the steps above and determine which one must be properly completed.

 You may also find the the URL or address of your web page is already entered because you were just looking at it. To force the latest changes to appear on this web page, click the reload button.

Plan Ahead

One advantage of this form of publishing, web publishing, is the quickness with which it becomes available to anyone on the planet. This assumes of course that others have been told what these web pages contain and how they can reach them. Carefully edit. Not only can you display your latest great ideas and information , but you can now display your own mis-spellings and incorrectly informed ideas with the same speed. Use your new skills to share your creative works, interests and activities. For example, you might want to publish a calendar of events, newsletters, personal pages, and any information normally published on paper.

This page last updated on January 28, 2006