1. Putting Documents on the Web Vivien Hall Central Computing Services

2. What is the Web? World Wide Web (WWW) - network of computers Web Servers - host pages for people to view Birkbeck Web Server - www.bbk.ac.uk NOT your PC/workstation

3. The World Wide Web Your computer Birkbeck Network JANET Internet

4. What is a format? A particular arrangement of internal data in a file. Almost everything associated with computers has a format.

5. Web Formats Hyper Text Mark up Language (HTML) Portable Document Format (PDF)

6. Software on your PC workstation Web Browser (e.g Netscape, Internet Explorer) Document processing packages (e.g Word 97, DreamWeaver, Adobe Exchange) File Transfer Package (FTP)

7. Web Browser View HTML format pages on Web Servers View HTML format pages your local machine

8. PDF Viewer View PDF format pages on Web Servers View PDF format pages your local machine

9. Document processing packages Microsoft Word 97 - Create documents in Word format, convert to HTML Adobe Exchange - Create pages in PDF format DreamWeaver - Create pages in HTML format

10. File Transfer Package (FTP) Put your pages on the server

11. Locating pages On local computer - locate drive, folder,file On Web –either –Type a URL (universal resource locator) into the browser –or –Follow a link from another page

12. Links Others cannot see page until there are links to it Web Maintainers may provide links to your pages You will need to learn HTML to do them yourself

13. Steps to put a Word Document on the Web Step 1 Create the document in Word 97 on your local machine Step 2 Convert it to a Web format on your local machine Step 3 Determine location on Web Server (see local Web Maintainer) Step 4 Copy to Web Server

14. Step 1 Create the document in Word 97 on your local machine Today - use samples copied to your private Birkbeck file space

15. Step 2 Convert them to a Web format on your local machine Today - convert to HTML and PDF Study the pro’s and cons of HTML and PDF Be aware of limitations of Word 97

16. Step 3 Determine location on Web Server Today - use test area supplied by CCS For real - see local Web Maintainer

17. Step 4 Copy to Web Server Today - use Windows NT version of FTP For real - see local Web Maintainer

18. Copying Sample files Samples today are on shared drive Q: Copy to normal working directory N:\My Documents on teaching workstations Use Windows NT Explorer Your computer Birkbeck Network

19. Some Examples of Web Documents Simple HTML http://www.bbk.ac.uk/~vivien/minutes/reps may00.html Complex PDF http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ccs/docs/9-32.pdf Complex html http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ccs/index.htm