1. Publishing a Web Page at the University of DE APEC 135

2. Characteristics of Good Web Pages

3. Steps to Develop a “Good” (Meaningful, Useful) Web Page Plan Create (Design Software) Enhance Publish (Host, Terminal/Transfer Software) Check - Evaluate

4. UD Guidelines and Rules UD has Guidelines and Rules http://www.udel.edu/it/help/web- development/how-publish-personal-web- page-university-delaware.html http://www.udel.edu/it/help/web- development/how-publish-personal-web- page-university-delaware.html

5. Host and “Terminal/Transfer” Software Host at UD – the Unix Systems (the Composers) – Available to students if you follow the rules! Terminal/Transfer Software for Windows Users – Download and install WinSCP and PuTTY – Set up “copland” profile Terminal/Transfer Software for Mac Users – Download and Install Fetch – Set up “copland” profile

6. “Design” Software Used to create your Web Page(s) 1 – Use a Web editor (Best Choice for Novices!) – KompoZer is very good, free and easy. See on-line tutorial at: http://www.udel.edu/it/help/web-development/how-create-your-web-pages.html 2 – Use advanced application software for Web page creation (Dreamweaver is supported by the U of DE). 3 - Write HTML code. 4 – “Save as Webpage” in Office application software (Word, Excel, etc.). 5- Google Apps (and many Web Sites) have “templates”

7. Publishing a Web Page at the U of DE Step 1 – Set up a Subdirectory in Your Unix Account You must have a place to “publish” your Web page. This place a folder called public_html that you create in your Unix account. Log on to Copland using Terminal or PuTTY. At the Unix prompt, type: source /www/htdocs/learn/usered/html-setup Note there is a space after source!

8. Step 2 – Create Your Web Page Options: 1 – Use a Web editor (Best Choice for Novices!) – KompoZer is very good, free and easy. See on-line tutorials. 2 – Use advanced application software for Web page creation (Dreamweaver is supported by the U of DE). 3 - Write HTML code. 4 – “Save as Webpage” in Office application software (Word, Excel, etc.).

9. Step 3 – Publish Your Webpage “Publishing” is actually just copying your Web Page file from your personal computer to the public_html folder – using transfer software (either Fetch or WinSCP). Use your browser, to view your webpage. The URL is: http://udel.edu/~yourusername/

10. Steps to Develop a “Good” (Meaningful, Useful) Web Page Plan Create (Design Software) Enhance Publish (Host, Terminal/Transfer Software) Check - Evaluate

11. Helpful Hints Steps: – Create or Edit, Save, Refresh, Transfer and Reload! No spaces in file names! File names have to be exactly the same – pic1.jpg is not the same as Pic1.jpg. In links, the “path” to a file has to be correct.

12. More Helpful Hints Folder and file permissions have to be correct: – source /www/htdocs/learn/usered/html-setup – Folder permission 755 – File Permission 644 Space after source