Website Creation Tips
Definitions:
- Website
- The entire collection of web pages and other information (such as images, sound, and video files, etc.) that are made available through what appears to users as a single web server
- IP Address
- The numeric address of a computer connected to the Internet; also called Internet address.
- FTP
- File Transfer Protocol makes it possible to send data contained in files between computers.
- Server
- A computer that delivers information and software to other computers linked by a network.
Tips and Tricks
- When creating a website, I suggest creating a folder on your computer (or USB Drive, etc.) dedicated to it. Any files you create or user (including word documents, images...) put in that folder. That will make the publishing process much easier.
- Website are accessed via a server. They cannot be viewed by ANYONE except you unless you upload it to a server. The server we will be using is the C/IL server, http://www.cil.cs.uofs.edu/~cil/. If you do not publish/upload every file you create or use for your website, it will not look right on this server, despite what it looks like on your computer.
- Everything is case-sensative.
- 90% of all website problems generated in this class can be solved by checking the path for a link or image. You can check the Link or image properties by right clicking on the item in question. If you see something that looks like the follow, the path is wrong. You want Just the file name, with no preceding slashes (/).
Resources
FAQs
- What is my username and password?
Your username is your University username (email without the @scranton.edu) and your password is your Royal ID # with a capital R.
- Why aren't my changes showing up?
You must publish your pages everytime you make a change.
- I'm getting a "Forbidden" message- why?
You have to make sure your home page is named "index.html" otherwise you will not be able to access your website.
- What is Navigator/Composer?
Navigator is the web browser we used to use in this class. Now we use Internet Explorer or Firefox. Composer is what we used before Nvu.