Welcome To The Web !

To get started, you must first activate your account.

http://webpage.pace.edu/ACCOUNT/startup.html

Where:

• ACCOUNT Is the name of your web page account. With the exception of organizations or clubs , this will be the same as your e-mail address without the "@pace.edu" (your actual e-mail address, not its alias).
• startup.html Is the name of your "startup" page, which is usually named "index.html".

The case of the text for the account's name and startup html document may be entered in all upper, all lower or in mixed case. Uppercase was used for the account name in the example above to make it easily identifiable.

It is strongly recommended that your directory contain a file named index.html , even if you use another document as your startup document, to prevent other users from browsing your directory.

Another advantage to doing this, in addition to the security aspect, is that if you do use the index.html file as your startup document, you can omit specifying the name of the startup document in your URL. The URL to your web documents will then have the form:

http://webpage.pace.edu/ACCOUNT

Managing Your Documents

You can manage your web documents using any of the following:

• Netscape Page Composer
• An HTML editor such as HomeSite or FrontPage
• An FTP client such as CuteFTP, WS_FTP or the FTP client that comes as part of
  Windows 95/98/NT WorkStation

Netscape Page Composer

Netscape Page Composer is one of the facilities of the Netscape Communicator web browser, and is located under the "Communicator " tab on the browser's main menu bar. Page Composer can be used to develop web pages using its composition facilitaties and then publish the page to the web server.

Although Page Composer can be used to develop web pages, you can use any facility that you are comfortable with to develop a page (such as a text editor like Notepad or a word processor, like MS-Word or WordPerfect ) and then use Page Composer's publishing facilities to put the page on the server.

Briefly, to publish a web page with Netscape Page Composer, you would:

1. Open the file in Netscape Page Composer (go to "File" on Page Composer's main menu bar or click the "Open" button)
2. A dialog box will open to specify the site that the document will be published to (the web server). The first two boxes, Page Title and HTML Filename will automatically be filled (from the information in the file that you will be publishing).
3. In the next box, "HTTP or FTP location to publish to:", you must supply the server location:

   ftp://webpage.pace.edu/

4. Please note that you must use FTP as the file transfer method. Specifying HTTP will not work.
5. For personal pages, your username is your e-mail address including @pace.edu
6. For club / organization pages, your username does not include @pace.edu
7. Next, fill in your account name and password in the appropriate boxes, and then click the Save password box. Clicking this box will retain not only your password, but also preserve the settings you entered for the web server location and account name. Note that files referenced in your document, such as graphic images, will be located and published at the same time. They will be listed in the "Other files to include box (the user has control over whether they will be published or not).
8. Assuming all of the required information has been entered correctly, click the Ok button and the file(s) will be sent to the user's account on the web server. A message will be sent back in a few seconds reporting whether the file transfer was successful or not.

For further, and more detailed, information on the facilities and capabilities of Netscape Page Composer, read through the help file that is part of the Page Composer facility.

HTML Editors

The web page author may also use an HTML editor to not only develop, but also publish their documents. Two of the most popular HTML editors are Allaire's HomeSite and Microsoft's MS-FrontPage . Both of these have facilities to publish and maintain web documents "remotely".

Microsoft FrontPage extensions are installed on the server to provide initial connectivity for web page maintenance and editing. Using HomesSite, go to the "Save Page Remotely" tab under "File " on the main menu bar. You will have to provide configuration information that is almost identical to the information used for Netscape Page Composer.

Consult the manual or the product's internal help facility for more detailed information on configuring the particular program for maintenance of remote document files.

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) Clients

The web page author may also manage their web documents using an FTP client. Unlike Netscape Composer, or an HTML editor like HomeSite or FrontPage, all of which have facilities to both develop and publish documents to the web server, an FTP client will only provide basic file management facilities.

The major advantage is that they allow easy directory management: the ability to not only move files to the server, but to also list the files in the directory, rename or delete them. You can also create one or more subdirectories under your main directory. Most HTML editors have either limited or no remote directory mangement facilities.

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) recommends the use of SmartFTP (click to download ), a very popular client that runs on either Windows 95 or NT WorkStation.

The FTP client that comes as part of Windows 95/98 and NT WorkStation is also very good, providing all of the same facilities as the two clients mentioned above, as long as the web author is knowledgable of, and comfortable, issuing FTP commands from the command (MS Prompt) line.

If you have any questions, please contact the DoIT HelpDesk at http://doithelpdesk.pace.edu. You may also e-mail questions to the Webmaster.

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