Steps in Creation of a WEB Site

Steps in WEB page creation at CSUB:
(Edited 4/26/07 ADA)

Want to avoid all the steps below and just create a quick and dirty web page? One solution is to use one of the free sources that have programs that help in creating your page and house it for free! One of these sources is: http://geocities.yahoo.com/ The negatives, advertisements on your web page and limited creative and technical possibilities. While this is not a solution for an educators or professional web page, it is an easy way to make a page available and fun as well. *****This is not an acceptable page for most CSUB web creation assignments*****

Table of Contents

How the Internet works
Create Your WEB page

Prepare for the WEB server
Transfer your web files

View your new web home page
Future changes
Bells and Whistles

(0) How the Internet works: A brief explanation

Introduction to the Internet

(1) First Create Your WEB page. Some Possibilities

NOTE: To make your web page appropriate for any web server, you should keep file names to lower case 8 characters plus extension of either "htm" or "html".

Create an HTML page with an editor such as simple text, BBEDIT, SimpleText (Mac) or Webford, Notepad (PC)
Create an HTML page from a word processing document
Create a WEB page with an Authoring tool such as Netscape Composer (free), Front Page Express (free), Front Page (available for small cost at library), Page Mill, etc

(2) Prepare for the WEB server by determining the following.

Students academic server:
At CSUB the the web server for a student web page is a sub set of the CSUB.edu server addressed as "stuweb.csub.edu/"

(1) Your account on the student web is your RunnerMail user name (use just the first 10 characters if your runner mail name is more then 10 characters long)
(2) The password is available from your instructor or Web services

Faculty www:
Faculty web pages will be located on the CSUB web server www.
(1) Obtain an account and password for www from Web services

(3) Transfer your web files to the web server academic or www.
Don't forget to copy all of your web site to the server; graphics, sounds, pictures and html documents. You can do this with any FTP program on a PC or Mac:

Images, sounds and other binary files should be transferred in binary mode, otherwise they may not work properly for the web. Click the "FTP Transfer" link, below, for details

Specifics on how to transfer web pages to the web server at CSUB can be found at:

FTP Transfer

(4) After completing the transfer, start Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Explorer and view your new web home page.

The URL will be:

Students
If you used welcome.htm(l) or index.htm(l) or default.htm, as the name of your web page then this url is all that is needed to bring up your web page:

http://stuweb.csub.edu/~Your RunnerMail Account

Faculty
If you used welcome.htm(l) or index.htm(l) or default.htm, as the name of your web page then this url is all that is needed to bring up your web page: http://www.csub.edu/xxxxxxx xxxxxx = your first initial and last name
My web address for example is: http://www.csubak.edu/~jross/

(5) Future changes
Make changes on your WEB page by modifying the PC or MAC version of your web materials and then transferring (FTP)the modified page(s) and graphic files to the web server to replace the previous versions.

(6) Bells and Whistles.
Want to add some action and interactive components to your web pages? Here are some possibilities currently available at CSUB

Bells and Whistles for the CSUB Web Author