In-Class Presentation of Creating a Web Page

Using Microsoft Word

In this lesson you will do 3 things:

1. Create a folder for your web pages (you may already have one).

2. Make a simple web page with your name, address, phone.

3. Ship the web page to the faculty server. (You must have your account name and password, WSftp loaded on your computer.)

Step Number

What You're Doing

How to Do It

1

Create a folder for your web pages inside the folder called "My Documents".

a. Right click on the start button.

b. Click once on "Explore".

c. Double Click on the folder named "My Documents". (make sure it's highlighted)

d. Click on File, New, Folder

e. Name the folder "www".

f. Close all these windows.

2

Make a simple web page in Microsoft Word and save it in the new "www" folder.

a. Click on the Start Button.

b. Select "New Office Document"

c. Select "Web Pages" Tab

d. Select "Blank Web Page"

e. Type in your Name, Office Address,

Office Phone Number and a short message to your students.

f. Enlarge the first line with your name by:

    • Highlight your name.
    • Select the Large A from the tool bar. Your name should be larger.

g. Change the color of the font by:

    • Highlight the text you want to change.
    • Click on Format --> Font --> Select the color you like.

Note: The homepage of anybody's web site is usually called:

"index.htm" or home.htm If you already have a page named this, name this page something else.

h. Save the document in the new folder:

  • Click on File, Save As Find your My DOCUMENTS folder and the select the "www" folder.
  • Name your file "index.html" if you want this to be your home page.

3.

Ship this file to the server:

Open your WSftp program:

    • Start Button, Programs, WSftp
    • Select the new button and name the server something familiar that you'll recognize. I called mine "Georgia College".
    • Now: Put in the server number
      • 168.16.205.180
    • Select Host Type: Automatic Detect.
    • Enter your user ID: djclark
    • Enter your account and password as provided by computer services. Note: you will see asterisks in place of the real numbers and letters.
    • Check the box "Save Password"
    • Click Okay. WSftp will now make a connection from Your Computer to the Server.

Programming WSftp to find the right files on your computer.

You'll tell WSftp where to find your web page files.

It already knows to go to your server account at GC&SU. You'll find your files listed on the right side of screen.

We need to set up the "local system"

Select change directory button and type in:

C:\MyDocuments\www

A list of the files in the MyDocuments\www should appear on the left side of the screen--including index.htm (or whatever you named the webpage file)

A list of the files in your server account will appear on the Remote System (right side) of the screen.

Transferring the files from MyDocuments/www/index.htm to the faculty server

a. Highlight the index.htm file on the "local system" side.

b. Click the button pointing to the right.

c. WSftp will send the file to your server account.

d. You're done. Start up Netscape, Explorer and look at your web page.