Uploading Handout

This document is a step-by-step guide to placing a document on our server, donated by San Jose Web. I assume that you are sitting in the class computer room. If you are using another lab, or are working at home, these instructions will still work, but the location of some software may be different. This document isn't too fancy, but it is direct. Follow these instructions and you should have a page online in short order.

Get the basic HTML script from the Web Template.

What should I see? You should see a sick dude in a hospital bed typing on his computer.

Scroll down to the HTML source code. Using your mouse, click at the beginning of the code (<HTML>) and drag until the entire text (ending with </HTML>) is selected. The HTML source code should be highlighted. Using your mouse, select COPY from the EDIT menu.

MINIMIZE the web browser window:

Single-click the START BUTTON at the lower left hand side of your screen.

Using your mouse, move the cursor to PROGRAMS.

Move cursor to ACCESSORIES

Select NOTEPAD (Windows users, do not select Wordpad - if you are using a Mac, use SimpleText)

What should I see? You should see an empty word processing document.

Single-click EDIT

Single-click PASTE

What should I see? The HTML code you copied from the Web Template should appear on your document.

Replace the text which says "Place body text here" with your name.

Single-click FILE.

Single-click SAVE.

NOTE: In the classroom, save your file on a disk. You will likely have to navigate a bit to save your document into the proper folder. When in doubt always keep a backup on both disk and, if possible, home computer.

In the FILE NAME field, replace the word "untitled" with index.html (Remember: type index.html in lower case letters exactly as you see it here)

NOTE: Never save a page name with more than one word (eg., "My page.html"). Ensure that each page is named as one word (eg., "mypage.html")

Single-click the SAVE button (if asked to).

What's up with that? You selected Save twice. Redundancy is a big part of Windows and windows-type operating systems.

MINIMIZE Notepad.

Single-click Explorer, located on the toolbar at the bottom of your screen. If you can't find Explorer there, select the Explorer icon from your desktop.

Return to the syllabus by single-clicking the BACK button at the upper left-hand side of your browser.

Select student websites from the tool box.

What should I see? You should see a website with this headline: "SJSU Department of Communication Studies".

Select the hypertext phrase: Student Site Administration located on the left-hand side of your browser window.

What should I see? You should see a log-in box requesting your Username and Password. Input the username and password and press the button labeled "Submit Authorization."

What is my username and password? Your username is your FIRST name in lowercase letters. Your password is the four digit number you gave me.

What should I see? You should see your upload page called Site Administration for (your name follows this phrase).

Scroll down to the box labeled "Upload Files".

Select the first button labeled "Browse" next to the phrase "Enter First Filename".

Navigate to where you saved your document labeled "index.html". It should be on your disk (of in the folder where you saved it).

NOTE: if you can't find the file, and you're sure you're in the right folder, click the pulldown menu and select ALL FILES.

Select "index" and click the button labeled OPEN.

What should I see? You should see information in the field next to "Enter First Filename" - the field was empty before.

Scroll down and single-click the UPLOAD FILES button at the bottom of the "Upload Files" box.

What should I see? A screen should appear on your browser indicating that the file has been transferred. The screen begins with the phrase: "Contents of The Form"

Scroll down and single-click Home in the lower part of that page. This should return you to the Student Sites Home Page.

Single-click your name.

What should I see? Your edited page (index.html) should appear on your screen.

Congratulations! You've edited and uploaded a page! Note the web address in the LOCATION FIELD of the browser. That is the address of your first web page .

What's up with that? There's an address, but no "index.html". Here's a strange part of hypertext markup language. "index.html" is known as a default page. In other words, an address that reads: http://www.sjsu.edu/ ASSUMES that the document following the slash is index.html unless another document title is placed there.

So, next time you make a page, call it something other than index.html. Call it test.html, or something. Then, you'll need to place the full address in the LOCATION FIELD.

How do you replace your current index.html file - which is pretty boring - with a new one? Send up another page with the same name.

Good work!

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