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Help for uploading HTML pages |
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Tips for making your own pages
Requirements for a HTML-Editor
Putting your pages on the Server
Creating pages
1. Be careful of capital and lower case letters. For example,
in the case of 2. Your first page must be named index.html..
All other document names will not be found on automatically made reviews
of the home pages of all users. In addition you shorten the URL
(Universal Resource Locator or address) of your home
page because you only need to give, for example,
http://members.gaponline.de/M.Mulford as address,
since the web server automatically assumes the
existence of a datei named index.html. 3. Example: Your pages are named:
and are stored with lower case letters. Assuming that your page index.html is composed in the following way: In this case, the page "hobbies.html" as well as the page "work.htm" would lead to an error, since the documents are stored under lower case letters. The error "Hobbies.htm" might easily happen to someone used to writing in German. These syntax errors can be corrected with the editors named below. Editor requirements 1. Defining projects: Transfer of the pages to the server
<a href="Dateix.html">Link</a>,
if the file Dateix.html is stored as dateix.html (without a capital letter)
UNIX-computers then give an error message that they can't find the
document.
index.html
hobbies.html
work.html
<HTML>:
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Homepage von Maria Musterfrau</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1>homepage of Maria Musterfrau</H1>
<hr>
<a href="Hobbies.htm">My hobbies</a>
<a href="work.HTM">With this I am occupied at least 8 hours per day</a></BODY>
</HTML>
When you put all pages that belong to one theme
of a publication etc. together in one folder, then you have the
advantage that
you can apply the comfortable link management as well as a few other
comands for the complete directory.
2. Comfortable search and replacement:
Search and relacement functions should, if possible, be used throughout an entire project or selected for an index.
3. "\" instead of "/":
Substituting " " used under DOS by the UNIX "/" by means of document filing or a project.
4. Assistants or Wizards:
For beginners or all who don't want to be bothered by the deepest depths of HTML, an assistant, which leads one through the creation of pages, is very important. Also useful are the so-called Wizards or Editors (according to program), which offer the necessary tags and possible parameters for tables or links.
5. UNIX format:
Unix and DOS have different ways (how could it be otherwise) of showing the end of a line. For this reason it is better to file the pages a second time in UNIX format (without DOS CRLF).
We warn against transferring pages with the publish command of the Netscape Navigator for example!
When the proxy is entered, the pass words are entered in decoded form in the proxy-storage of the provider!
Use an FTP-program! You have to install a new program on your computer, but this is compensated for by the very comfortable publish command and the secrecy of your pass word.
Tested programs are marked by Tucows with the well known five cows. In principle, the programs are equivalent. The program Ws-ftp, to be sure, shows the local computer in the left window and the computer aimed at in the right window, but drag and drop is possible with all programs (as well as pulling a folder or a document onto the window of the FTP client) so that it is not considered to have a particular advantage.
2. Entry in FTP program
Example ws ftp:
New Session:
Profile name: your designation
Host name/Address: members.gaponline.de
Host type: automatically detected
User ID: Your log in ID (=gapxxxx)
Password: the password
After logging into the Server, you are in your table of contents where you have the right to make additions.
The end of a session is brought about by "Close", the client leaves the server with "bye".
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Software
We limit ourselves to Windows Software. Our choice is the Tucow server (five cow winner). In case we overlooked something in testing so that a good software product hasn't been recognized, we excuse ourselves and ask that you report to the Web administration.
1. FTP clients, see Transfer of pages to the
server
2. Editors:
Aracnophilia (free
http://www.arachnoid.com/)
and coffee
cup fill most requirements, but Home-Site seems to be the best.
This editor can only be obtained for Windows 95. With respect to
Windows 31 programs, we must admit to large gaps:
only Hot Dog and TC Director were tested briefly. Both appear to meet
most demands. Hot Dog helps beginners to create pages with its
Express Function.
3. Graphic programs and useful helpers:
Iv-Pro, Paint Shop Pro (both win 31 and win95), transparency of
GIF-pictures, working with GIF's is made possible especially in Paint
Shop.
Mapedit and LiveImage are programs which make possible the creation
of image maps as well as Gif pictures which, when clicked in a
specified area, lead to other pages. This function, however, has
already been integrated into many editors. CGI-Star and Egor help to
create CGI-scrips and Java-Applets, "Offline" Browser makes
it possible to file pages visited
in a hierarchical way and much more that goes beyond this very brief
introduction.
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If you know good software addresses, please tell us so that other users can profit from them.Back to the beginning of the page
© 1996, FEN - last change: May 7, 1999
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