Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: Web UMBC Uploading your personal web pages

Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: These procedures are only for personal web pages They are not recommended for use in official UMBC, SGA, or other organizations’ web sites.

Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: Web page vs. web site: Web page: A document on the World Wide Web. Every Web page is identified by a unique URL (Uniform Resource Locator). Web Site: A site (location) on the World Wide Web. Each Web site contains a home page, which is the first document users see when they enter the site. The site might also contain additional documents and files. Each site is owned and managed by an individual, company or organization

Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: HTML: Short for Hypertext Markup Language, the authoring language used to create documents on the World Wide Web. URL: Abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator, the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web. The first part of the address indicates what protocol to use, and the second part specifies the IP address or the domain name where the resource is located.

Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: Personal vs. Departmental web sites Differences…

Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: Personal web sites… Hosted from your personal space on gl.umbc.edu Only you decide what content to publish Business web sites are PROHIBITED Sharing your account or password with anyone is against the UMBC Responsible Computing Policy

Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: Official UMBC Web sites Should not be kept in personal space Used for official business content May require a team of staff to develop content, construction and maintenance

Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: SGA Sponsored organizational sites… Hosted on the web server sta.umbc.edu Contact Office of Student Life at x5-3463) Organization Account Information FAQ at

Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: Department web sites… Hosted in the OIT web server Contact OIT or The New Media division will assist your department in getting started

Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: FrontPage 2000 Easy to use WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) Important settings… Turn off Microsoft Front Page Extensions – UMBC uses Apache web server Publish Web… feature makes it easy to upload your pages

Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: Set the Page Options: Under Tools menu choose Page Options… Set the Browsers Set Apache Server Disable Front Page Server Extensions Compatibility:

Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: Viewing the page The Normal tab shows the web page in progress

Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: Viewing the HTML code The HTML tab shows the raw HTML coding

Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: Pre-viewing the page The Preview tab shows the final appearance Check your page before it is published

Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: How and where to publish your pages You may easily copy all your files to your www directory using the Publish Web… feature of Front Page. Students may publish web pages in your gl account, in your /public/www directory.

Office of Information Technology Help Desk: ECS 020 Phone: Using the Publish feature Choose File>Publish Web… Use ftp://gl.umbc.edu/~username/wwwftp://gl.umbc.edu/~username/www Put your account instead of username Click Publish button to upload