Getting started! Module 1: Creating and publishing web pages Your class “home page”

Module 1 How? –Popular web-creation software HTML Netscape Composer Microsoft FrontPage Macromedia Dreamweaver Microsoft Word –Resources needed: Microsoft Word A computer with an Internet connection An “FTP” program to “upload” pages to ASU’s “web space”

Module 1 Where? –Your home computer –Library

Stages in developing a web page 1.Plan its appearance 2.Plan how you’ll organize your files 3.Create the page 4.Publish it to the web

1. Plan the page’s appearance …

2. Plan how you’ll organize your files: On a flash/thumb/pen drive, zip disk, or the hard drive of your computer, create 2 “folders”: gcu674 –Where you’ll store the pages you create before you “publish” them to the web gcu674images –Where you’ll store graphics you place on your webpage

Publishing a web page Creating a set of files that uses a common communication protocol (html) And placing it on a “server”…a computer that can provide access to your file from other computers

4. Publish your page: clients & servers Servers: computers that provide access to files Clients: computers that are networked so they can receive files Publishing a web page ASU’s public web space: “AFS space” or “M drive”

Publishing a web page to ASU’s “public” server: Set up your AFS space so it can “serve up” web pages Copy the files you’ve created to your web space

After setting up your web space in Jukebox … What your web space will look like in an IT computing site: