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HTML Code MiniChapter 10: Publishing your Page
Using FTP to upload...
Some web hosts no longer require you to use FTP to publish your
files. Instead, they have an upload via web browser function. While
upload via web browser is useful to send perhaps one or two files,
it can be tedious to send multiple files. Nearly all web hosts
support FTP, and that is why I choose to explain it in detail. It is
also a good skill to have if you plan to design web sites for other
people.
How to structure your Links...
As a beginner, it is probably best to leave all files, HTML and
graphics, in one directory. That way, when you link to and from your
files with <a href="filename.html"></a> you do not need to have the
full path.
For example, say you have two pages:
http://www.reallycreativename.com/~YOURNAME/index.html
http://www.reallycreativename.com/~YOURNAME/links.html
If you want to place a link from the index.html page to the
links.html page, all you need to put is <a href="links.html">My
Links Page</a>. If you are editing your links.html page, and want to
link it to the index.html, all you need to type is <a href="index.html">My
Home Page</a>.
Now if you want to get a little more advanced and your host supports
directories, things get a little more challenging. Let's say you
have a pet and you want it to have a web page at http://www.reallycreativename.com/~YOURNAME/mypet/.
So you decide to create a directory on your hard drive as
c:\homepage\mypet. Then you (or your pet) writes a home page called
index.html and saves it to c:\homepage\mypet\index.html. You log
onto your ftp server, and make a directory called mypet. You upload
your pet's index.html file into that directory.
Now your File Structure looks like this:
http://www.reallycreativename.com/~YOURNAME/index.html
http://www.reallycreativename.com/~YOURNAME/links.html
http://www.reallycreativename.com/~YOURNAME/mypet/index.html
On YOUR index.html page, you want a link to your pet's index.html
page in the mypet directory. The most common way to do this is type
out the full URL (uniform resource locator) as
<a href="http://www.reallycreativename.com/~YOURNAME/mypet/">Visit
My Pet's Page!</a>
OR
<a href="http://www.reallycreativename.com/~YOURNAME/mypet/index.html">Visit
My Pet's Page!</a> But because your index.html is in the directory
http://www.reallycreativename.com/~YOURNAME/ you can do it an easier
way. Remember how when you linked to links.html from index.html
without using the full URL? Well that is because they are in the
same directory. Since your pet's home page is only one directory
further down, all you need to type for the link is:
<a href="mypet/index.html">Visit My Pet's Page!</a>
OR
<a href="mypet/">Visit My Pet's Page!</a>
Now you have a link to your pet's page... but say you want (or your
pet wants) to link to your index.html in /~YOURNAME/. Because the
directory is up one directory in the file structure, you can use two
periods (..) and then a slash (/) to move back. So you are editing
your pet's index.html page in the directory mypet and want to link
to your page... here is how you can do it:
<a href="../index.html">Visit My Owner's Page!</a>
OR
<a href="../">Visit My Owner's Page!</a>
Important Read about Copyright Laws
All copyright laws still apply on the Internet as they do in other
media. But it is often confusing about what is legal to do and what
isn't. All original web pages on the web are copyrighted by their
authors unless noted otherwise. Pages that do not have a Copyright ©
notice can still be protected under copyright laws, and almost
always are. All images (including backgrounds, icons, etc.) are
copyrighted. In order to use them you must have permission from the
author. Links to pages are not copyrighted, so you may link to
copyrighted pages, but you may not use them as though they were
yours. (to get the © symbol in your page, use the html code ©
.)
Legal stuff you can do:
· Write Original Pages, make Original Graphics, and claim copyright
on them.
· Link to another web page that does not belong to you, as long as
you do not claim it is yours.
· Use graphics files that are noted as "free", such as graphics from
a "free backgrounds" page or "free icons" page.
· Use someone else's graphics with their permission.
· Express your opinions on someone else's web page on your page, as
long as no material from their page is used in your page. (You must
realize that if you do this to them, and they don't like it, they
can do the same to you.)
Illegal stuff you can't do:
· Take someone else's web page and/or graphics, unmodified, and use
it on your server.
· Take someone else's web page and/or graphics, modify it, and claim
ownership upon it.
· Take someone else's graphics files, such as backgrounds, pictures,
etc., and use them in your web pages.
· Post or use any copyrighted material without permission of the
copyright holder, whether it be text, books, magazine articles or
pictures, music, whatever. If you didn't create it, and it's not in
the public domain, chances are you can't use it.
· A lot more, if you get in trouble, for something else, tell me so
I can add it. webmaster@davesite.com
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