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Web Publishing @ UMBC

Uploading your personal web pages

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These procedures are only for personal web pages

They are not recommended for use in official UMBC, SGA, or other organizations’ web sites.

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Web page vs. web site:

Web page: A document on the World Wide Web. Every Web page is identified by a unique URL (Uniform Resource Locator).

Web Site: A site (location) on the World Wide Web. Each Web site contains a home page, which is the first document users see when they enter the site. The site might also contain additional documents and files. Each site is owned and managed by an individual, company or organization

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HTML:Short for Hypertext Markup Language, the authoring language used to create documents on the World Wide Web.

URL: Abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator, the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web. The first part of the address indicates what protocol to use, and the second part specifies the IP address or the domain name where the resource is located.

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Personal vs. Departmental web sites

Differences…

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Personal web sites…

• Hosted from your personal space on gl.umbc.edu

• Only you decide what content to publish• Business web sites are PROHIBITED• Sharing your account or password with

anyone is against the UMBC Responsible Computing Policy

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Official UMBC Web sites

• Should not be kept in personal space• Used for official business content• May require a team of staff to develop

content, construction and maintenance

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SGA Sponsored organizational sites…

• Hosted on the web server sta.umbc.edu• Contact Office of Student Life at x5-3463)• Organization Account Information FAQ at

http://sta.umbc.edu/technology.shtml

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Department web sites…

• Hosted in the OIT web server • Contact OIT (helpdesk@umbc.edu or

455-3838)• The New Media division will assist your

department in getting started

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FrontPage 2000

•Easy to use WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get)•Important settings… • Turn off Microsoft Front Page Extensions – UMBC uses Apache web server• Publish Web… feature makes it easy to upload your pages

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Set the Page Options:Under Tools menu choose Page Options…

•Set the Browsers•Set Apache Server•Disable Front Page Server Extensions

Compatibility:

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Viewing the page

• The Normal tab showsthe web page in progress

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Viewing the HTML code

• The HTML tab showsthe raw HTML coding

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Pre-viewing the page

• The Preview tab showsthe final appearance

Check your page before itis published

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How and where to publish your pages

• You may easily copy all your files to your www directory using the Publish Web… feature of Front Page. •Students may publish web pages in your gl account, in your /public/www directory.

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Using the Publish featureChoose File>Publish Web…

• Use ftp://gl.umbc.edu/~username/www• Put your email account instead of username• Click Publish button to upload