Getting started!

• Module 1: Creating and publishing web pages

• Your class “home page”

Module 1

• How?– Popular web-creation software

• HTML• Netscape Composer• Microsoft FrontPage• Macromedia Dreamweaver• Microsoft Word

– Resources needed:• Microsoft Word• A computer with an Internet connection• An “FTP” program to “upload” pages to ASU’s “web space”

Module 1

• Where?– Your home computer– Library

Stages in developing a web page

1. Plan its appearance

2. Plan how you’ll organize your files

3. Create the page

4. Publish it to the web

1. Plan the page’s appearance …

2. Plan how you’ll organize your files:

• On a flash/thumb/pen drive, zip disk, or the hard drive of your computer, create 2 “folders”:

• gcu674– Where you’ll store the pages you create

before you “publish” them to the web

• gcu674images– Where you’ll store graphics you place on

your webpage

Publishing a web page

• Creating a set of files that uses a common communication protocol (html)

• And placing it on a “server”…a computer that can provide access to your file from other computers

4. Publish your page: clients & servers

Servers: computers that provide access to files

Clients: computers that are networked so they can receive files

Publishing aweb page ASU’s public web space:

“AFS space” or “M drive”

Publishing a web page to ASU’s “public” server:

• Set up your AFS space so it can “serve up” web pages

• Copy the files you’ve created to your web space

After setting up your web space in Jukebox …

What your web space will look like in an IT computing site: