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Background
There are two stages to creating your Web site.
First, you must design and create the HTML (HyperText Markup Language) web pages which
will form the content of your Web site. This is done off-line (i.e. locally on your PC).
There are a number of different tools to assist in this, including Microsoft FrontPage 98 and SoftQuad HoTMetaL Pro, as well as several others. A
software package is not essential, since you can create a web page using a simple text
editor such as Notepad - but a software tool will deal with most of the mechanical
processes, leaving you to concentrate your efforts on the content. It is beyond the scope
of this document to deal with HTML programming and web page production, but for a good
on-line tutorial for HTML, the NCSA site is
recommended. Other useful resources include:
How to write HTML files
HTML Quick Reference
Official HTML specification
Composing Good HTML
Second, when you have created your web pages on your PC, you must upload them to your
web space on our servers. Our servers are permanently connected to the Internet, so that
anybody who accesses your web site will always find your pages. Uploading your web pages
is done using FTP (File Transfer Protocol). A number of good FTP programs are available,
including CuteFTP and WS_FTP which both come highly recommended. Whichever
FTP program you use, you will need some login information to connect to your web server,
as follows:
- Host Name
- The Host Name for a Dial-up Account user is your web site address. This takes the form www.nodename.uninet.co.uk,
where nodename is the name you chose when your account was set up. Your
nodename is shown on your UniNet Dial-up Account information.
For users with their own domain name using a UniNet Virtual Server, the Host Name is of
the form www.yourcompany.co.uk, as chosen when your Virtual Server was set up.
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- Login Name and Password
- Your Login Name is the same as you use for Internet access, as shown on your Account
information sheet. You can NOT use anonymous login to upload your web pages. Your Login
Password, however, is NOT the same as you use for Internet access. You will be informed of
your Login Password by e-mail when your Internet account is set up.
Setting up your FTP Connection
If you use CuteFTP, you should add a Host for connection to your web space as follows
(substitute your Node Name, Login Name and Login Password as appropriate):
If you use WS_FTP, you should complete the Session Properties for connection to your
web space as follows (substitute your Node Name, Login Name and Login Password as
appropriate):
Uploading your Web Pages
Select the HTML files on your local disk that you wish to upload to your web site, make
sure that you have selected binary transfer, and select the upload
function in your FTP program. Remember that your home page - the first page that visitors
to your site will see - must be called index.htm or index.html.
Taking over your UniNet Starter Pages
Our web developers will, if you wish, create a small web site for you as a means of
providing a basis on which you can build. Once your starter pages have been created and
loaded into your server web space, you will wish to modify and enhance your web site
yourself. The following describes how you can get your web pages onto your PC so that you
can develop your web site onwards.
IF YOU ARE NOT USING FRONTPAGE98 TO DEVELOP YOUR WEB SITE
- Download the web site files to your PC
Create a folder on your hard drive, e.g. C:\MYWEB where you wish your web page
files to reside.
Start your FTP program and connect to your web site (e.g. www.yourname.uninet.co.uk)
with the user name and password sent to you by e-mail when your web space was set up.
Download each subdirectory (usually _borders, _private and images) and its contents one
at a time, and then download the .htm files so that your folder on your local disk matches
the web site directory structure and files exactly. REMEMBER to select binary transfers in
your ftp program!
IF YOU ARE USING FRONTPAGE98 TO DEVELOP YOUR WEB SITE
- We will e-mail the FrontPage web to you
We will send you a self-extracting ZIP file containing your web pages in a format
that FrontPage98 will recognise.
- To load your web pages into FrontPage98
When FrontPage has been installed, you should find a directory structure created on
your disk like C:\Webshare\wwwroot. Make sure that FrontPage98 is not running.
Using Windows Explorer, create a new folder under C:\Webshare\wwwroot with the name you
wish to give to your FrontPage web (e.g. "myweb", so that your new folder is
C:\Webshare\wwwroot\myweb). Copy the ZIP file we sent you into this folder. Again in
Windows Explorer, navigate to this file and double-click it to execute it. Click on Unzip
and then, when the files have been extracted, click OK then Close. You
should find that a set of files and folders have been placed into the new folder.
Run FrontPage98 and, when asked to open a FrontPage web, select Create a New
FrontPage Web and click OK. Choose Empty Web as the kind of FrontPage web to
create, and enter the folder name you created (e.g. "myweb") as the title for
your new FrontPage web. Click OK, and your web site pages will appear as the new
FrontPage web.
- Modify your web pages as necessary
Using FrontPage98, you can develop your web site as required. We have chosen not to
support FrontPage server extensions in order to provide the very best security, so make
sure that you do not use FrontPage features that rely on the server extensions.
- To publish your FrontPage web
When you are ready to publish your FrontPage web onto your web space on the server,
select Publish FrontPage Web… from the FrontPage Explorer File menu. In
the Publish window, click on More Webs… and enter your web site address e.g. http://www.subdomain.uninet.co.uk
and click OK. This starts the Web Publishing Wizard: enter www.subdomain.co.uk
as the FTP Server Name, leave the Directory Path blank, and click Next. On the next
window enter the User Name and Password sent to you when your web space was set up and
click Finish. Your web pages should then be uploaded to your web space.
Web Page Utilities
We have provided a hit counter utility on our server for
you to access from your Web pages if you wish. A hit counter allows you to display a
counter on a web page which shows the number of times that page has been visited.
For details on how touse this utility to enhance your own web pages, select the of
the following link:
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