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Understanding Web Authoring and Publishing: Essential Steps Explained

This guide provides a comprehensive overview of web authoring and publishing. It covers essential steps such as creating your homepage (index.html) using Nvu, understanding file naming conventions, and utilizing FTP (File Transfer Protocol) via WS_FTP for publishing your files. You will learn how to find and navigate your URL (Uniform Resource Locator), allowing you to successfully showcase your projects online. Follow the tasks provided to sketch your website design, practice Nvu skills, and publish your homepage, ensuring you are well-equipped for web development.

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Understanding Web Authoring and Publishing: Essential Steps Explained

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  1. Web Authoring and Publishing: Basics Week 3 & 4

  2. What is the deal? The Whole Process

  3. Step 1: Web Authoring • Nvu • File name: • reflections.html • projects.html • Index.html

  4. Step 2: Publishing • FTP: File Transfer Protocol The program you will be using to "load" your file • WS_FTP FL (free download in resources page)

  5. Step 3: Find Your URL (Web Address) • URL: (Uniform Resource Locator): http://studentweb.cortland.edu/username/filename.html • http://studentweb.cortland.edu/water54/project1.html

  6. http:// ? http://studentweb.cortland.edu/water54/project1.html

  7. http:// ? • http://studentweb.cortland.edu/water54/project1.html • http:// tells the Web-browser to use the hyper-text-transfer-protocol. • studentweb.cortland.edu tells the browser to go to the Cortland web-server computer. • Username (water54) tells the browser to go to your account on the Cortland web-server computer • water54@cortland.edu – the account name is water54. • filename.html (project1.html) tells the browser to go to that file on your account.

  8. URL eg: project1.html http://studentweb.cortland.edu/water54/project1.html eg: projects.html http://studentweb.cortland.edu/water54/projects.html eg: index.html http://studentweb.cortland.edu/water54/index.html

  9. Your Homepage: index.html • Your Homepage “by default”: http://studentweb.cortland.edu/username/ • eg: http://studentweb.cortland.edu/water54/ So: index.html can be omitted in your homepage address (Why?)

  10. Task for Today • Create your homepage: • index.html (homepage) • Publish the homepage: • Know your URLs (the web address of your homepage)

  11. Task for Today: #1 • Have a sketch of your website using paper and pencil. • Design your main page

  12. Task for Today: #2 • Basics of Nvu In pairs/groups, showcase/teach skills you picked up from exploring Nvu.

  13. Task for Today: #3 • Publish your homepage

  14. Your Homepage: index.html • Your Homepage “by default”: http://web.cortland.edu/username/ • eg: http://web.cortland.edu/shis/

  15. URL eg: project1.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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