Managing Your Website C/IL 102

Managing Your Website  Where are things?  Building your website (on your PC)  You can see it  You can edit it  No one else can see it  Publishing your pages  Moving your pages from your pc to a file system that is accessed by a publicly available webserver.

On your PC  Designate a folder where you construct your web pages  Build your pages using Nvu or some other web page construction tool  When you are satisfied with your pages, publish them

What is publishing?  Before we answer this, let’s back up and tackle another question What is the Internet?

 It is a hardware/software network of computers that follow standards for transmitting information from any one computer on the network to any other computer on the network.

Machine ID  Each computer on the internet has several unique identifiers.  MAC codes: Each device on your computer that can be attached to the Internet has a hardware code that is unique to that particular piece of hardware on your computer  IP Address: An identifier that is assigned to your computer when it is connected to the Internet  IP Name: An identifier assigned to your computer by a Name Server, a special computer that helps keep a local part of the Internet organized

Machine ID  Bring up an Command Prompt window and enter ipconfig/all  A MAC number appears as Physical Address:  The IP Address appears as IP Address :

What the difference between the Internet and the Web?  Think of it this way – The Internet is like the Interstate highway system with a special set of rules focused on transferring packets from one computer (exit) to another (exit).  Each packet must have:  Return address  Forwarding address  Limited size – Think of it as a highway were all vehicles are the same size, no exceptions.

Packets  A computer must break apart the information it wants to transmit into one or more packets.  When forming packets the computer must place another wrapper around the information inside the packet.  That wrapper is called a Protocol.

Internet and the Web  Protocols  A protocol is a way of telling the receiving computer what is inside the packet and what to do with it.  Some protocols  TCP  IP  SMTP  MAIL  FTP  Telnet  HTTP  …

Internet and the Web  The web (HTTP) is one of many protocols that wrap the information inside of a packets  The inventors of the internet were very clever, they knew that new ways of the internet would come about – the use of protocols allows for this.  In a sense, anyone can invent a protocol at any time.

What about a web server?  The Literacy Web Server The Literacy Web Server The Literacy Web Server  Access via HTTP  What a web browser does.  What’s the difference between   Retrieve’s the server’s home page   Goes to the /~logon account finds the folder called public_html and retrieves the page called index.html.

What about a web server?  The Literacy Web Server The Literacy Web Server The Literacy Web Server  How do my pages get there?  First  Construct and edit your pages on your computer.  Construct all your links, etc.  Then publish  Publish is just a fancy word for using the FTP protocol to copy files from one computer to another.  WARNING: If you are in a dorm you may have trouble publishing from your dorm room because of the presets for MacAfee 8.0i – Find someone who knows how to fix it, its easy to do,

Nvu  Nvu is a free web construction resource  File  Edit  Link  Table  Picture  Publish

Nvu  First  Play with Nvu  Construct a set of pages on your computer  Make them look nice  Make your links work

Nvu  Once you have everything working and looking good.  It is time to publish

Nvu  Fill in according to Dr. Sidbury’s handout.  Carefully follow his instructions

via FTP  Instead of using Nvu’s publish feature, find a free FTP program and us it instead of Nvu’s publish window.