Publishing Your Page via FTP


Remember to sign and date your page!

If you don't have a  Grove website yet, check the page on URLs for reminders and links

To publish your webpage from the Little lab, you need to send it via FTP (File Transfer Protocol) to your website on the server. If you are using your own computer, and you have established your Grove public_htm directory, you can use Netscape Composer as a publisher. However, in the Little Hall lab, you should use the FTP client.

Open the FTP client and log in using your Grove Userid and password.

Examine the FTP client. On the left is the list of local directories (a:, c:, and others); on the right is your web account. You can create new folders.

If you do not have a Grove folder called public_html, you must make one; on the right side, click the MkDr button and name the new directory public_html; this will be the directory into which all your Web materials should go. Click on the folder and select "ChDr" to open it to receive the materials.

Before sending the files, be sure that the binary mode is selected, not ASCI; binary mode preserves the codes and images.

If your webpage files are on a floppy, select the a: drive on the left side of the FTP client and click on "ChDr"on that side. This should give you the list of the pages you have made and the images that go with them. Now click the arrow to send the pages to your public_html directory on the Grove server.

Be sure you send the image files and all your pages. You can browse your published work by going to the URL http://grove.ufl.edu/~youruserid; if there is a problem with the links or images, be sure that the items referred to have been placed in the public_html folder with the exact names (capitalization included) specified in your page's coding.

If you wish to replace an old version of this file already published, you must have the name match the published version. If you wish to have all links among your own pages work, you must be sure the names of the pages match the names you have programmed into the links (for example, a link from your home page to syll1130.htm will not work if you publish the page with the filename Syll1130.htm or syll1130.html).

The best way to edit your page is to keep the final copy of all your pages, with all the related images,  on a diskette (or on your hard drive) and replace the old file with the edited file as necessary. Keep the names identical to the ones you expect to publish so that all the image and inter-page links will work.

Alternatively, you can go to your page in Netscape Browser and select "Save as..." or "Edit Page" to get a copy of the page to edit and re-send. The replacement page should have exactly the same name as the former version, or both versions may end up on the same directory.

To publicize your work, see if you can get a link from the Romance Studies Page. If you are on any listservs that might be interested in your work, you can tell them about the page, too, or add the address to your email signature. If you have developed pages that might be of general interest, you can use the Excite search engine (http://www.excite.com) to publicize the area of interest.