Jerz: Writing for the Internet (EL 236)


2 Oct 2006

Group work.

We will upload the group websites. I'll focus on the students who feel they need more help. If you can do the work on your own, you don't need to show up.

Class today is optional for you if you

1) manage to upload your sample website (in the state Castro describes at the end of Chapter 2, with all links working, images and stylesheets loading properly, etc.).

2) test your website from a different computer (see the newbie tips document you read for Friday)

3) post a comment here giving me the URL of your test site

4) post on the project proposal web page a link to the blog entry in which you describe your project.

Steps for uploading your website

I hope that someone who's site is far along will try this procedure during our workshop on Friday, so that I'll be able to troubleshoot it and clarify any confusing points (and hopefully save a lot of stress Saturday night and early Monday morning).

1. Fill out the simple online form to get SHU web space. (Later, when you publish your first project, you will overwrite your test Castro website with a new home page, but don't worry about that now.)

2.

Here is what caused the problems -- my instructions were wrong. I've revised this to correct the problem.
Use Internet Explorer to go to "ftp://people.setonhill.edu/". Note the beginning of the URL is "ftp" not the usual "html". You will have to log in with the information you just provided. (Do not add your login ID to the URL.)

3. Drag and drop the files you want to upload. Drag the icons from wherever you have been working on them, onto the blank screen that displays in Internet Explorer after you log on to your "ftp" web address. You should see the mouse icon change to a plus sign, indicating the computer knows it's supposed to add a copy of this file to the server. (If you change your local copy, you'll have to follow this procedure again in order to update the copy that's on the server.)

4. New detail:

In the window that opens when you log in successfully to ftp://people.setonhill.edu/, you will see a file named "index.htm". It's just a simple text file that announces your site is ready. Delete that file.
After you have uploaded all the files (including images and the stylesheet) that you created for this assignment, go to "http://people.setonhill.edu/[your id]" in order to make sure that they're there. If you've set up your site properly, you should see the contents of "index.html" loaded automatically. (You won't have to type out the "index.html" part.)

5. Click your links and make sure everything works. If something doesn't work, don't panic, we'll have time Monday to figure it out.

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I am traveling slowly, as this is still new territory to me. I would like to get most of it done Monday, if not all.

Posted by: jeremy barrick at September 29, 2006 12:26 PM

ftp://people.setonhill.edu/index.html

website is working out fine

Posted by: Rachel Prichard at October 2, 2006 12:56 PM

http://people.setonhill.edu/str4919

My website seems to be working out fine. I couldn't get a few things to look exactly the way I wanted them to, but that is what the next project is for. :)

Posted by: Corey Struss at October 3, 2006 11:22 AM

http://people.setonhill.edu/EL236kss/

Posted by: Kayla Sawyer at October 3, 2006 11:42 AM

This is my link. When i finally got it posted during class today it wasn't working. I guess alot of people were having this problem. Well, I'm posting it anyways. It still isn't working, but maybe it will...and if not, I will troubleshoot it on Friday....

http://people.setonhill.edu/LoriRoseRupert

Posted by: Lori at October 4, 2006 3:06 PM
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