Web Space and FTP - Web Design 101
Basics: Creating Web Pages
Web pages are created by using a system of codes known as hypertext markup language or HTML. The codes do not display on the finished web page, but they tell your Web browser how your page should be displayed. HTML can be created in a number of ways. One way is to use an html editor such as Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, Adobe GoLive or Macromedia Dreamweaver. Another way to create HTML is to use the text editor such as Notepad, Simpletext, Homesite or BBEdit.
Storing Documents on the LINUX Server
At WVNET, home pages and related files must reside in a particular location on our Linux server. That place is a subdirectory in your account called public_html. It is customary to name the starting web page in your public_html directory index.html.
To access your public_html subdirectory, you must change directories after FTPing to your web account.
Web pages residing in your public_html subdirectory can be viewed by anyone with a web browser who can find the page--either by entering the URL or by connecting to the page via a link from another page. You are the only one who can make changes to files in your public_html subdirectory.
The URL for the main web page in your public_html subdirectory will appear as follows where ~userid is your account's userid (i.e. abc0000):
http://www.wvnet.edu/~youruserid
The URL for web pages in your public_html subdirectory not linked to the main web page (index.html) can be viewed as follows, where ~userid is your account's userid (i.e. abc0000):
http://www.wvnet.edu/~youruserid/filename.html
HTML
Hypertext markup language or HTML consists of codes or markup tags which define each text item. The markup tags determine how a web browser will treat a given character, word, block of text or image.
When using Netscape to view Web pages, you can view the html version of the page you are viewing by choosing Source... from the View menu.
If you are just getting started, here are some useful resources of information.
- Beginning HTML Tutorials
Includes a list of excellent resources to help you start to write HTML code. - Advanced HTML Tutorials
Includes a list of excellent resources to help you write more advanced HTML code.
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