FINDING YOUR VOICE ONLINE- CREATING YOUR OWN WEB SITE

Stage 1: Activate Your UW Web Publishing

§ You should know your UW NetID to proceed.  If you do not have one or you are unsure, go here first.

§ Next, activate your account for web publishing.  You can do that by going HERE.

§ If your account is activated, you should be able to see a picture of a man digging something on http://students.washington.edu/yourNetID.

§ If you already have a web page, inform me.

Stage 2: Designing your Web Page

§ Open Microsoft Word.

§ Create your page the way you want it. Think small at this point. You will obviously want to improve on this as time goes by.

§ Name the file index.htm.

§ To insert links, use “Insert-Hyperlink”. All inserted hyperlinks must start with http:// (e.g. http://www.cnn.com). “Save as Web page” ON THE DESKTOP to create a HTML document.

§ DO NOT ADD PICTURES AT THIS POINT. DO NOT ADD FANCY BACKGROUNDS EITHER.

Stage 3: Moving it to your Web Account

The file you just created (index.htm) looks good.

§ However, it currently lives on your desktop PC.

§ For the world to see it, you have to move it to your web account.

§ EVERY TIME YOU MAKE A CHANGE, you need to repeat this process.

§ Locate SSH-Secure FTP on your desktop/PC.

§ Click on “Quick Connect”.

§ You will see a pop-up screen.  If the host name is blank, type in dante.u.washington.edu.  For user name, enter your NetID.  Click on Connect.

§ If you have activated your account, you should see a public_html directory. Click on it.

§ Go to- http://students.washington.edu/yourNetID

§ You should see your file in hyper-text.  Click the “Refresh” button if changes do not appear. Click on the links to make sure they work.

§ You have just created your first web site.  People in Columbus, OH and Prague can now see what you have up there. Congratulations!

COMMON MISTAKES:

§ Putting the file in the wrong place- Did you click on public_html before uploading?

§ Not uploading the file.

§ Linking to a document that does not exist. If you have linked to a file 2.htm, make sure the file is not named 2.HTM.

§ DO NOT NAME THE MAIN FILE INDEX.HTM or INDEX.htm. It has to be named index.htm (all lowercase).

§ Not clicking on “Refresh”.

§ Not being able to locate the file on your PC (save to desktop).

§ Not saving multiple versions of a file. Save multiple versions. Save multiple versions. (get it?)

Stage 4: Uploading Pictures

§ Open index.htm in Microsoft Word and insert the picture in it.

§ Save the document on to your desktop using “Save as web page”.

§ You will see a new FOLDER on your desktop that says something like index_files.

§ You will need to UPLOAD the index.htm file and the entire index_files folder and its contents to the public_html directory.

Stage 5: Creating Multiple Pages

You have successfully created a web page. A web site has multiple web pages. You are ready for your next baby step.

The file index.htm will be your home page.  That will load when you type- http://students.washington.edu/johndoe

Create another page- call it 2.htm. Make sure it has things that your index.htm file does not have.

Go to Microsoft Word.

Create a page. “Save it as web page” as 2.htm on your desktop.

Now using SSH-Secure FTP, create a sub-folder under public_html.

Call the sub-folder searchweb2005.

Now, upload 2.htm to the sub-folder searchweb2005 under public_html.

You (and people in Prague) will be able to see the contents of 2.htm at-

http://students.washington.edu/johndoe/personal/2.htm

Stage 6: Uploading a pdf file.

Go to the web and download a pdf file to your desktop. E.g. go to Google.com and type in-

“customer service” filetype:pdf

Call the file test.pdf. Now, using SSH-Secure FTP upload test.pdf.

You (and people in Prague) can now look at this file at-

http://students.washington.edu/johndoe/test.pdf

You can use this technique to upload pdf files, Powerpoint files, Excel spreadsheets, Word documents etc.

Stage 7: ADDING MEANINGFUL CONTENT

Up to this point, you have been exposed to the mechanics of creating a page. Now is the time to add meaningful content.

Stage 8: ENABLE WEB STATS

Use the following steps-

§ Logon to catalyst.washington.edu.

§ Locate SimpleSite on left toolbar. Click on it.

§ You will come to a new screen with a list of options.

§ Select “Manage this web site’s usage statistics”.

§ You have successfully enabled the site’s stats.

§ Starting tomorrow, you can see the site’s stats at- http://students.washington.edu/johndoe/webstats