Other Useful Resources

So you made a web site. Now what?

If you have a Tufts Emerald account, putting your site on the internet is simple.

1. In a telnet application, log onto your Emerald account.
2. In your home directory, create a folder named "public_html" by typing: mkdir public_html
3. Now, in a web browser, go to http://www.tufts.edu/~your_username. This is where the contents of your public_html folder will appear.
4. If you see "Forbidden," you must first change the authorization of your folder. Back in the telnet application, type: chmod 775 public_html to make this folder visible to the public. If you see an empty folder, that's fine.
5. Using an FTP application, log onto your Emerald account. Click on the public_html folder.
6. Transfer all files that belong to your site to the public_html folder in your Emerald account.
7. One of the files, your homepage, should be titled index.html. When a user goes to http://www.tufts.edu/~username/, they are accessing the index.html file.
8. If you are forbidden access to any of your files, go back into the telnet application, and go into your public_html folder by typing: cd public_html. Here, change the authorization of all files by typing: chmod 775 filename, or simply chmod 775 * to change all files at once.
9. You should now be able to view your site from any web browser!

Other web authoring tools

There are applications available that will make the web-authoring process quicker and easier. However, in many cases a page that was generated on one type of application does not work well with some browsers, and may require a good deal of "tweaking" of the source code before you can get it to look just right.

• Adobe Pagemill: in all CBL and TAMPL computers
• Macromedia Dreamweaver: A powerful web authoring tool from Macromedia; free 30-day trial version available at Macromedia.com.
• Netscape Composer: shareware; can be obtained free of charge from Netscape
• Microsoft Frontpage: A web authoring program that may come with Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Word: You can have MS Word convert your word document directly into an HTML file. However, this works well only if you have simple text - doesn't work so well when you have tables, lists, images, etc. Other Microsoft Office products also have HTML converters.

Online Resources

• hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/
  Very comprehensive site with tutorials, guides, and tips on HTML and other web tools.
  
• www.tufts.edu/webcentral
  Tufts Web Central site - has resources on "good web practices," Tufts standards, etc.
• www.tufts.edu/as/tampl/program99/workshops
  Web workshop by TAMPL, from summer 99 research program