Creating your own web page

Faculty, students and student organizations at Illinois College can create a web page of their own. It takes a little work to learn all the necessary skills to create and maintain your web area, but in no time at all you should be up and running.

How to begin
You will need server space. Call or email the help desk and request server space for your web site. The help desk will submit the request to the webmaster, who will set up your account. The server that is used by Illinois College for this is called www2. Your web address will be http://www2.ic.edu/yourDirectoryName, the webmaster will send you the name of your directory once it has been set up.

Saving a file to www2
Click Save As to open up the Save As window.
On the right hand side, click My Network Places.
In the center of the window, Double click on Entire Network.
Double click on Microsoft Windows Network.
Double click on Illinoiscollege.
Navigate to Www2. Double click on Www2.
You are now in the www2 directory. Look for your directory name.
Double click on your directory to open it.
Name your file and choose the Save as type. If you are saving as a web page, in the Save as type: field choose Web Page or Web Page, filtered.

How to map a drive
If you want to have access to your directory so that you can drag and drop files to it, you will want to map to it. Once you have mapped to it, the directory should show up in My Computer on your desktop.
Double click My Computer
Use the menu at the top
Click on Tools
Click on Map Network Drive
For Drive, choose a letter that you are not currently using
For Folder, Click Browse
Entire Network
Microsoft Windows Network
Illinoiscollege
www2
your directory
Click OK
Click Finish

How to create the web page
You need to decide what software you want to use. If you do not want to put a lot of time in learning software, an easy way to make web pages is by using Microsoft Word. If you would like to have more control over your pages and learn how to build the pages from scratch, you will want to use software such as Adobe Dreamweaver or Microsoft Frontpage. These programs cost money and do have a learning curve, but they will give you much more control over the layout of the page. If you don’t have money to purchase these programs you can search the internet for a free editor. These programs are often called WYSIWYG – What you see is what you get. So do a search for free WYSIWYG and you should have plenty to choose from. Also, all Windows PC’s come with two free editors, Notepad and Wordpad. You must learn html code to make your web pages using these editors. These programs can be found by going to your computers desktop and clicking on start-All Programs-Accessories.

Tutorials
Tutorial on using Microsoft Word
Tutorials for Frontpage 2000

Tips

Name your home page index.html.  If you name the home page index, you do not have to include the name of the file in the address.  Example, your address will be http://www2.ic.edu/yourDirectoryName, if you name the home page something else, let's say home.html, then you will have to include that name in the address to get to your home page. http://www2.ic.edu/yourDirectoryName/home.html.

An extension designates what type of document you are using.  Here are some popular extensions.

• html or htm - web page
• doc - Microsoft Word
• pdf - Adobe Acrobat file

If you want to create an email link - highlight the text that you want to make as the link, right click on it and type mailto: and the email address. For example, mailto:helpdesk@ic.edu

   

 

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