Creating and Using your Carthage Personal Home Page
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GETTING YOUR WEB
SPACE
3.Your
web space is created automatically the first time you publish something to
it. Create your web pages on your local
computer and then use the instructions below to publish. You will need to know your Novell user name
and password.
4.Note
address of your web site should be http://personal.carthage.edu/username
where “username” is the same as your Novell user id.
PUBLISHING
TO YOUR WEB SPACE
FTP is the recommended publishing method
for personal.carthage.edu. FTP
will work for publishing no matter what software you use to create your
pages. If you use a web page creation
program that has a built-in publish feature - such as FrontPage or Dreamweaver –
you can use its Publish feature. Special
instructions for FrontPage are given below.
Dreamweaver’s Put feature with work without any special instructions.
To publish
web pages using FTP
If you do not have your own FTP client,
use the instructions below. If you h
Using FTP from a Windows lab computer on the
1.
Login to Novell.
2.
Click Start and go to Run.
3.
Type in R:\FTP\iftp32.exe and press Enter
4.
A login window will appear. For the host name, type in personal.carthage.edu
5.
Enter your NOVELL user id and password in the
corresponding spaces. Leave everything
else the way it is*.
6.
Click OK.
You will see two panes: the one
on the left shows the active directory on your local computer; the one on the
right shows the contents of your directory on the personal web server.
7.
In the left panes, navigate to the folder where
your web files are. (Use Chdir or
double-click on “..” in the upper left repeatedly to go up in the hierarchy and
then double-click on folder names to open the correct folders.)
8.
When your files are showing in the left pane,
highlight the one(s) you want, and then click the -> button in the middle of
the screen to upload them to the server.
You can select and upload whole folders from the upper left pane in the
same way. The names of the uploaded
folders and files will show up in the right pane.
9.
When finished, click Exit.
* For those familiar with FTP
settings, the “remote directory” field can be left blank. When you connect, you are by default placed
in the top directory of your web space
To publish
web pages using web authoring tools (like Dreamweaver) that use FTP
If you are
using Dreamweaver or another web authoring program that uses FTP, you can use
the software’s built-in publish feature (may be called “put” or some
other terminology.) Publish to your site
address – personal.carthage.edu/username.
To create or modify your web site directly in
FrontPage
1.Open FrontPage
2.0.Click on File
-> Open Web (Please note: your web was already created when you activated your
web space, so you need to “open” it rather than “create” it.)
3.0.Type in the
address you were given (in format http://personal.carthage.edu/username)
4.0.Click the Open
button
5.0.You will get a
login screen. Enter your NOVELL user id
in the User name field and your Novell password in the password field. Click on OK.
6.0.A document
named index.html has been created for you already. It is your main page. Double-click on it to open it.
a. .If you do not
see it, click on the Folders icon in the Views panel at the left.
b. .You may choose
to rename index.html to index.htm or Default.htm, but your main page must have
one of these three names to work properly.
7.0.Use FrontPage
as you would otherwise to create other pages, add images, etc. Use Save to save your changes. These changes will be live on your web site.
To publish an existing web using FrontPage
If you hhttp://personal.carthage.eduftp://personal.carthage.edu
using FrontPage.
If you created a web page on personal.carthage.edu directly using FrontPage and don’t have the files on your computer, you must first FTP them from the server to your computer using the instructions below. You only need to do this step ONCE.
To publish web pages using FTP or other web
authoring tools (like Dreamweaver) that use FTP
If you created your web pages using software other
than FrontPage, FTP is the recommended publishing method. If you have your own FTP client software
already, you may use it and omit steps 1-3; other steps may be different, as
well.
1.9.Login to
Novell.
2.9.Click Start and
go to Run.
3.9.Type in R:\FTP\iftp32.exe
and press Enter
4.9.A login window
will appear. For the host name, type in personal.carthage.edu
5.9.Enter your
NOVELL user id and password in the corresponding spaces. Leave everything else the way it is*.
6.9.Click OK. You will see two panes: the one on the left shows the active
directory on your local computer; the one on the right shows the contents of
your directory on the personal web server.
7.9.In the left
panes, navigate to the folder where your web files are. (Use Chdir or double-click on “..” in the
upper left repeatedly to go up in the hierarchy and then double-click on folder
names to open the correct folders.)
8.9.When your files
are showing in the left pane, highlight the one(s) you want, and then click the
-> button in the middle of the screen to upload them to the server. You can select and upload whole folders from
the upper left pane in the same way. The
names of the uploaded folders and files will show up in the right pane.
9.When finished,
click Exit.
* For those familiar with FTP
settings, the “remote directory” field can be left blank. When you connect, you are by default placed
in the top directory of your web space