Publish Your Page: How to Send your files to an ISP (internet service provider)

Any website you can find using Netscape or Explorer is actually a collection of files (.html, .gif/.jpg, .mid etc...) that is sitting somewhere taking up space on a computer, which is called a server - it serves up websites on demand. For folks to be able to see your webpage/s, the files need to have a home on somebody's server, and you have to put them on the server- the files, that is. The company/organization that provides (rents, gives) you server space is called an Internet Service Provider, or ISP for short. This process is called: publishing your page. Composer makes this process easy, so long as you have collected all the necessary information about how to commmunicate between your computer and the server computer.

One more thing we have to do here. Before you send your files to the server, CLEAN UP YOUR ACT! Nothing is more frustrating than to publish your page/s only to discover that half the images don't show up because your software inserted extra codes every time you inserted a graphics file. Before we publish our page, we are going to look at the source-code - the HTML

De-Bug the HTML: Comb through and Clean up the HTML code

  1. In Composer, select View > Page Source
  2. Select Edit > Find in Page
  3. Type img src=(the HTML code for "insert image")
  4. Look at every instance of "img src=" code and make sure that this code is followed only by the name of a file, e.g., image.gif
  5. If you see code that looks something like this: file:///hard%20drive/Mary%27s%20Text%20Files/image.gif you'll have to fix the code - later....
  6. Select Edit > Find in Page
  7. Type HREF=(the HTML code for "insert link")
  8. Look at every instance of "HREF=" code and make sure that this code is followed only by the name of a link, e.g., http://www.apple.com, or mynext.html
  9. If you see code that looks something like this: file:///hard%20drive/Mary%27s%20Text%20Files/mynext.html
  1. Make sure that only your file name is inserted in the Image file name box by editing out any extraneous characters using your cursor and the delete/backspace key.

You may want to try using an HTML syntax checker to double-check your code. "Dr. HTML" is available on the WWW at:

http://www2.imagiware.com/RxHTML



Publish it!

The next step is to make sure you have all the details you need to publish your Web page to the server.You will need the following details:

Ta Da!
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