Fred Endsley

Write/edit your web pages in a neutral text editing program like Simple Text, Teach Text, or BBEdit, though most word processing and text/image layout programs can save as RTF (Rich Text Format) which can be easily converted to HTML (HyperText Markup Language - the language of the internet) with an application like "rtf2html". You can also try using various webpage construction applications like Go Live! Cyberstudio or Pagemill. When using these conversion or construction programs, be aware that they often create their own proprietary language which may contain errors or conflicts or inabilities, especially with multimedia elements like sound or movies.

You should make your first page as a `gateway' to other future pages you'll make. Keep it simple, well-organized, and considerate so that users can easily understand and navigate through it to the other pages of your `site', and so that you can easily update it by adding or subtracting `links'. Outline, architectural, organic, or roadway metaphors of design are understood universally enough that users can move through your gateway structure efficiently (remember: phone and server time can be expensive). The best gateway pages are quite minimal. Try to design to distribute your information over time rather than overloading single pages.

Your first page should be named and saved as index.html since most servers will search for your personal gateway page under that name. Subsequent pages can be named almost anything as long as they end in .html and don't contain any spaces; if you need to use more than a single word, join it like my_own_webpage.html or 1.2-art_access.html. Because you will accumulate a lot of web pages and their accompanying media files in a folder on the server, it helps if you plan out and alphabetically or numerically order the naming of your pages. Maintaining a web site, finding and renaming pages, and changing links can be very time-consuming, requiring repetitive uploading of files.

Each media file needs its own particular suffix like .gif, .jpeg, .mov, .au, .aiff, .dcr, .spc , to name just a few. Think of different media elements like images, sounds, or movies as external objects that will become `embedded' in your web page when called upon by the .html page. All text appearing on your page will be included in the .html document. Make sure to save secure copies of all files you upload to the server, so that you can edit and update them without needing to first download them from the server.

To Upload: First you must have an `account', login, and password established with the server that will handle your files.

1) Get online. Use Fetch to access your personal directory within the server, usually listed as your username. For "Host" enter the name of your server: widow.artic.edu . Enter your user ID (login- name) and password. The "Directory" entry should be left blank the very first time you access and set up your account; thereafter enter the name of your file directory: public_html. .

2) When Fetch has accessed the directory with your user-name, go under the menu heading "directories", select "create new directory", and enter: public_html (must be small letters). When Fetch has made the "public_html" directory within your user directory, go under the menu heading "remote" and select "set permissions". Check all boxes under the "read" and "search" headings, but only the "owner" box under the "write" heading. Do the same for the "remote: set upload permissions". This process should be repeated as appropriate for any other new folders you create in your user directory.

Next, open (double-click) your "public_html" directory and again set the "permissions" and "upload permissions" exactly as you did for your user-name directory. Wphew!

You will not need to set up this directory again, and Fetch should open it automatically in the future if you enter: public_html for the Directory entry in the login window (see 1). However, whenever you upload new files to your "public_html" directory, you need to again set the permissions or the files will not be accessible through your website.

3)Now to check some preference settings.

• Under menu choice Customize - Preferences :
  • General
    • Set: Default shortcut: widow.artic.edu
    • Check: Keep connections active
    • Set: Transfer buffer size: 64kb (ethernet) for school, or 8kb (modem) for home
    • DON'T SET/CHECK: Anything Else

  • Download
    • DON'T CHECK: "Automatic defaults to "TEXT"
    • Check: Overwrite files with conflicting names
    • Check: Use download folder - Documents
    • Set: Edit text files with: SimpleText

  • Upload
    • Set: Default text format: Text
    • Set: Default non-text format: Raw Data
    • Check: Add .hqx suffix to BinHex files
    • Check: Add .bin suffix to MacBinary II files
    • DON'T CHECK: Add .txt suffix to text files
    • DON'T CHECK: Encode and decode file and folder names
    • Set: Word wrap margin: 72

  • Format
    • Check: ALL

  • Firewall
    • Check/Set: Nothing

  • Mirrors
    • Set: Nothing Necessary

  • Misc
    • Set: Maximum file list cache size: 9000k
    • Check: Use "Type 1" to transfer binary files
    • Check: Omit file names beginning with a period
    • Check: Show sign-on dialog at startup
    • DON'T CHECK: Anything Else

    Click "OK" to return to the Upload window

• Under menu choice Customize - Suffix Mapping add, if necessary:
  • .mov Binary Quicktime, QTVR files
  • .jpeg Binary JPEG, ProJPEG files
  • .dcr Binary Director Shockwave files
  • .html Text HTML Text files
  • .au Binary AU Sound files
  • .aiff Binary AIFF Sound files
  • .spc Text Text-to-speech files
  • .talk Text Text-to-speech files
  • .mid Text Midi files

    If you use and upload other file types (like 3-D files, etc.),
    you should update the proper suffix mappings.

    Click "OK" to return to the Upload window.

• Under menu choice Customize - Post-Processing: Stuffit-Expander should be prominent as an opening application.

  Click "OK" to return to the Upload window.

These preferences shouldn't need to be set again unless someone changes them.
If you experience problems, check through them again.

4) Now you're ready to upload:

• You should generally check the "Automatic" setting in the Upload window if you have set up the preferences correctly.

• With your "public_html" directory open, select "put", choose the individual file to upload. The information displayed in the "save" window should all be correct if your suffix mapping preferences are set up correctly. Remember that all filenames of files to be uploaded onto the server need to include the proper filetype suffix.

• Click OK to save.Be patient while the dog does his fetching, and don't be surprised if you sometimes lose your connection during lengthy uploading of big media files. Repeat for each file.

• Alternatively, you can also simply drag one or many files of different types onto the Upload window and Fetch should do it's work automatically without showing you the individual "save" windows. If you upload many files at a time it could take awhile for Fetch to sort everything out, but its still much shorter than doing it one file at a time.

• You can also use the "Get File" option to download files back to your computer to change them, etc.

• Under the Remote menu choice are options for changing the name of a file or directory without needing to download, and also for deleting unnecessary files and directories.

• Remember to update the permissions on any new or changed files before quitting Fetch.
  If the browser window says FORBIDDEN when you try to access a page,
  you probably didn't set the permissions for newly uploaded files.

You can open Netscape and test your files before closing Fetch. Use the Netscape "Reload" button to get the newest display version of each page/file.