Uploading Newsletter to Server

The object of this assignment is to have you learn how to upload a document, in this case your newsletter, to a server.  Uploading to the server will then allow you and others to see your newsletter via the Internet. 

Directions:  (Trying to copy and paste your complete newsletter usually won't work due to formatting problems.  Copy and paste a story or picture, one at a time.)

1. You will need a composer such as MS Front Page, Netscape Composer, Claris Homepage.  You can download Netscape 7.0  free and use the composer (If you don't have Netscape, go to http://browser.netscape.com/downloads/archive/.  (Important:  Netscape versions newer than 7.0 don't have a web page composer.)

2. A good source for directions on how to use a composer, and in this case Netscape, click here.  After you have downloaded Netscape and unpacked (unzipped) the application, open Netscape and under window, locate "composer."

3. In composer, type in the following, "Welcome to Happy Valley Elementary School."  Then, notice in the lower left hand corner, there are three boxes, Normal, HTML, and Preview.  "Normal" is what you see and what you get.  "HTML" is the script language used to compose the page.  "Preview" is used when you want to view and check your links.

4. In the menu, across the top of the page, you can see the options available.  You will usually use link, image, table, and spell. On the next line of the menu, you will usually use the text size, bold, underline, bullets, and alignment features.

5. While your composer is open, open your newsletter in MS Word or Works, and use "select all" and copy the newsletter.  Then, go back to your composer and paste the entire newsletter into the composer.  This is where you need to edit the newsletter to fit the new formatting on composer.

6. Between each article, add a horizontal line (break) to separate articles.  Horizontal lines are located under "insert."

7. To insert images, use "image" locate in the menu bar. 

8. After you have edited your newsletter on the composer, you need to make a table of contents for the reader.  The table of contents or "what's inside" should be located at the top of the newsletter (to see when arriving at the newsletter).   The principal is used here as you used in formatting your table of contents in MS Word.

9. Highlight the title of the article, then find "body text" in the menu bar (left side) and select "heading 1" like you did in MS Word.  Do the same for all of your titles.

10. Near the top of your newsletter, create a space for the table of contents.  Then click on "link" in the menu bar and type in the title of the first article, then click on the triangle to locate the title in the list of titles.  Then click okay.  Repeat the process for all of the titles.

11. When done with the internal links, you will likely have other links that would be helpful to the reader.  First highlight the text that indicate to the reader that there is a link.  Then, to create external links, go to the web page you want and copy the URL (e.g., http://matrixmagic.com/train/html/composer.html) and paste it in the appropriate box (opened by clicking on the link icon).  For example, to find help on how to composer a web page, click here.

12. Save your web page.  All of the web pages and images need to stored in the same folder on your desktop.  Now the webpage(s) will need to be uploaded to a server.  In this case, you will be uploading to the Heritage University server.  (It has been said by former students that this process can be the most frustrating, so hang in there.)

13. Go to your browser.  For MS Windows users, click here to download AceFTP.  Proceed to download a trial version of "Aceftp."  For Apple Computers, click here.  Be sure to remember the folder that contains the FTP program.  Once you have downloaded and unzipped the program, open the program and use the following information to access the server.

The following is the information that you need to insert the information in the boxes.
a. Profile Name:  ftp.eburg.com
b. Host name: ftp.eburg.com
c. Host type: Automatic detect
d. User ID: hmleague

e. Password:  HMl3agu3 (capital H, capital M, small letter "l", number 3, small letters "a", "g", "u", and ending with "3"

f. When the server connects, you will see three folders on the right, bin, maildir, and public_html.  

g. Click on "public_html"

h. The next screen will show a list of folders. Click on HERITAGE.   

i. In the HERITAGE folder, you will see your first name in lower case letters.  This is your folder.

14. To see a visual representation of the process using AceFTP, click here.

15. Write down the name of your primary web page (sometimes called "index").

Go back to your browser and type (better to copy and paste) in the following URL: 

http://www.hmleague.org/Heritage/yourfirstname/yourfirstnamepage.htm

As an example, for mine, the web address would be   http://www.hmleague.org/Heritage/jack/sample.htm

To see locate "jack's webpage, go to the following:  http://www.hmleague.org/Heritage/jack/homepage.htm

 

Notice the sequence:  http://www.hmleague.org  (this is the main folder)
 

 

Then "Heritage"  (this is the subfolder for this course)

Then "jack"  (this is the subfolder-your folder for this course)
Then homepage (this is the file - your page with an image) notice your name in lower case.  Keep you name in lowercase and don't use spaces.

16. Check to make sure the internal and external links work and the images are placed correctly.  You may have to go back to your composer and re-edit the parts of your newsletter, then upload those pages again.  Then check again to make sure they look okay while being viewed on the Internet.

17. Send me the URL of your beginning/first webpage.  It should look like the following:  http://www.hmleague.org/Heritage/yourfirstname/yourfirstnamepage.htm

7/11/04 revised 3/3/05