Creating and Publishing Your own web site

PC Version

SEAS 001

Professor Ahmadi

Project Overview

• Create a basic web page using a “text editor”• Publish web page to GW school server• Edit web page using an open source HTML

editor• Create several links from basic web page to:

– Your ECE001, MAE001, APS001 presentation– Your resume– Your schedule

• Present web site to SEAS 001 classmates

Overview of Creating a web site

STEP1: Create web page on your personal workstation

STEP2: Upload “publish” web page to web server(at GWU: cobweb.seas.gwu.edu)

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STEP1

STEP3: Web page can now be viewed anywhere

on the Internet

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STEP3

Create Folder to store web pages on Local PC

• Open up “My Computer” icon• Look for the “T:” drive• Create a Folder called: web site

Do this by going to “File->New Folder”If you do not have a “T:” drive, simply use

the “C:” drive• You will save all your web related work in this

folder.• With the T: drive, you can login to any seas

machine and see your web site folder

Creating Main Web page

• The main web page must be called: index.html

• It is a simple text file, we can use any text editor to create

• On a PC, we use Notepad to create this file, DO NOT use an editor like MSWord

Writing HTML

• HTML is the language web browsers like the Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari can read

• It uses opening and closing “TAGS” to identify different sections of a web page.

• Example, to mark the TITLE of a web page:

<title>Main web page</title>

Opening TAG

Closing TAG

Writing HTML• Open Up Notepad type what you see below• Save the file as: T:\web site\index.html• Open a web browser and view the file by typing:

T:\web site\index.html

Writing HTML – Adding a Link

• To add a “Link” to a web page, we use the following TAG sequence:

<a href="http://www.gwu.edu">GWU web site</a>

• This will add “HYPERLINK” to your web page

T:\web site\index.html

Uploading web page to web server

• To “publish” our web page, we transfer the file: index.html to the GWU SEAS web server

• To do this, we use a “Secure File Transfer Client” or SFTP• The SEAS’s SFTP server is called: cobweb.seas.gwu.edu• Your seas username and password are required to login

• For Home, free SCP clients are available from:• PC users:• http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~seas001/fall07/downloads/winscp405.exe• http://winscp.net/eng/download.php• Mac users:• http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~seas001/fall07/downloads/Cyberduck-2.8.1.dmg• http://cyberduck.ch/

Open up SFTP ClientConnect to web server

1. From Desktop, click on:SSH Secure File Transfer Client

2. Once the SFTP Client opens,Click on the “QUICK CONNECT” buttonHost: cobweb.seas.gwu.eduUsername: your seas username, then connect!

Uploading web page to web server

• Type in T:\web site in the box at the top• Drag index.html to public_html folder

YOUR PC SEAS Server: cobweb.seas.gwu.edu

Viewing your web site

• Open a web browser, and open the web address:

• http://www.student.seas.gwu.edu/~tfarmer/index.html

index.html is now published on the Internet

Any file placed under the folder: public_html will be published on the Internet, so anyone willBe able to view them!

Change: tfarmer to your seas username

HTML Editors• Manually typing HTML files is tedious• To produce more interesting web pages,

quickly, an HTML editor is needed• There are many different commercial HTML

editors: Dreamweaver, Microsoft Front Page• For this class, we will use an “open source”

editor called: N View• We must download and install this editor on

your local workstation

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Download Open Source HTML Editor

• Download PC version from:• http://net2.com/nvu/download/nvu-1.0-win32-full.zip

• Download MAC version from:• http://bluegriffon.org/freshmeat/1.5.2/bluegriffon-1.5.2.mac.dmg

• Download other versions from: http://net2.com/nvu/download.html

• Download the ZIP file to your Desktop, or press “open” to install

Install Open Source Editor on PC

• After downloading…

• Double click on: nvu-1.0-win32-full.zip

• Extract all files to c:\temp\nvu

•Click NEXT…•this takes about 30 seconds

Startup Editor

• Run file: c:\temp\nvu\nvu-1.0\NVU.EXE

Using the HTML Editor

• Open the file: T:\web site\index.html

Using the HTML Editor

• index.html is shown as it would be in a web browser

• You no longer need to use “TAGS”, one can simply enter text or graphics

• By clicking on the “Source” tab, the HTML code can be viewed

Creating Schedule web page

• Create a new page • Save it as: T:\web

site\schedule.html

Linking index.html to schedule

• Switch back to index.html• Type “My Schedule” and

highlight the text• Click on the “LINK” button• Save the changes

Link to schedule.html1. Click on “Choose File”

2. Choose the schedule.html file, then click open

3. Click on OK when done

Links

• Links can be to:– 1) Another web page– 2) Another web site– 3) Any type of file

• Example: a power point presentation, document, excel file, movie file, etc.

• The link we just created is an example of linking index.html to another “file” called: schedule.html

Update Schedule Page

• Switch back to your “schedule” page

• Use the “Table” icon to create a schedule similar to the one on the left

• Save the changes when have finished making changes

• Click on the “Source” tab to see the HTML code for the table

Publish Schedule web page

• Using the SFTP client, upload index.html and schedule.html to public_html

• Any changes you make to the files on your PC must be “re-uploaded” to publish the changes

To Do During Lab• Create a page called: resume.html

– If you already have a resume, download it to the T:\web site folder• Link resume.html to your index.html page• Create a power point presentation describing your ECE, MAE, EMSE, etc.

project– Create a link from index.html to your presentation file

• Add your Matlab results in the form of a word document from the SEAS matlab project from weeks 2 and 5

• Class Schedule (This semester or next semester)• Personal (Major/Interests/Photo); can be deleted after the presentation.• Major and Its Description• Links to:

– Department web site, Student Activity Groups, Professional Associations, Hobbies/Interests• Customize your index.html (Professional Look)• Publish all the above files to your web site• Be prepared to present your web site, and power point presentation on Dec. 7th• NOTE: All presentations MUST be done from the web page. Large videos may

be an exception. (We recommend uploading videos to YouTube for easy access)

• NOTE: This is the suggested assignment for your work during the lab. However, please refer to the project presentation and report guidelines for the detailed list of required content for your webpage.