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Making a Website
- Design a Web Page
A webpage,
for beginners anyway, is just a text file written in HTML format (Hyper Text Markup
Language). There a few avenues to achieve this.
1. Use website authoring software such as:
Website authoring software, similar to Desktop Publishing software, lets you create
pages visually and is an excellent option for the beginner.
2. Learn to write HTML directly with a text editor.
Though requiring more skill, being able to directly edit HTML is an worthwhile skill
as not all HTML code output by webpage creation software is equal and not all browsers
display HTML in the same exact way. There are many idiosyncrasies to HTML and being
able to create 'clean code' will often be the difference between a site that works
and one that doesn't.
Once you have created your web page you will need to FTP the page to our server.
You can download a copy of FTP from our Software Download page.
The first screen you see called session profile. The host is chesco.com, autodetect,
then fill in your username and password. Then click on it will take you to your home
area on our server. The screen you see is divided into two screens, one says local
system and one says remote. The remote system is our server, the local system is
your computer. On the local side click on chdir and fill in the path for the files
you intend to transfer to the remote system. Once you have this done and the files
are sitting on the local side so you can see them. You will need to do a couple of
steps on the remote system.
1.Click on "MkDir" and you have to type in public_html. This is where all
your files for your web page go into.
2. Now you have typed this in you can click "OK" and you just have created
a directory onto the remote system called "public_html". Now you will double
click on the directory public_html and it will change the remote system to this directory.
Take note of what the top says; /usr/home/"USERNAME"/public_html.
3. Now you are ready to transfer your files. Now just click on your index.html (double
click) and it will start to transfer. You will do this to all the files and pictures
you are going to transfer. When you have completed the transfer of all the files,
click close. Then exit.
4.Open your browser and go to http://www.chesco.com/~<fill in your username here>
to view your page. e.g., http://www.chesco.com/~joseph |
