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Putting Documents on the Web Vivien Hall Central Computing Services What is the Web? • World Wide Web (WWW) - network of computers • Web Servers - host pages for people to view • Birkbeck Web Server - www.bbk.ac.uk • NOT your PC/workstation The World Wide Web JANET Birkbeck Network Your computer Internet What is a format? • A particular arrangement of internal data in a file. • Almost everything associated with computers has a format. Web Formats • Hyper Text Mark up Language (HTML) • Portable Document Format (PDF) Software on your PC workstation • Web Browser (e.g Netscape, Internet Explorer) • Document processing packages (e.g Word 97, DreamWeaver, Adobe Exchange) • File Transfer Package (FTP) Web Browser • View HTML format pages on Web Servers • View HTML format pages your local machine PDF Viewer • View PDF format pages on Web Servers • View PDF format pages your local machine Document processing packages • Microsoft Word 97 - Create documents in Word format, convert to HTML • Adobe Exchange - Create pages in PDF format • DreamWeaver - Create pages in HTML format File Transfer Package (FTP) • Put your pages on the server Locating pages • On local computer - locate drive, folder,file • On Web – either – Type a URL (universal resource locator) into the browser – or – Follow a link from another page Links • Others cannot see page until there are links to it • Web Maintainers may provide links to your pages • You will need to learn HTML to do them yourself Steps to put a Word Document on the Web • Step 1 Create the document in Word 97 on your local machine • Step 2 Convert it to a Web format on your local machine • Step 3 Determine location on Web Server (see local Web Maintainer) • Step 4 Copy to Web Server Step 1 • Create the document in Word 97 on your local machine • Today - use samples copied to your private Birkbeck file space Step 2 • Convert them to a Web format on your local machine • Today - convert to HTML and PDF • Study the pro’s and cons of HTML and PDF • Be aware of limitations of Word 97 Step 3 • Determine location on Web Server • Today - use test area supplied by CCS • For real - see local Web Maintainer Step 4 • Copy to Web Server • Today - use Windows NT version of FTP • For real - see local Web Maintainer Copying Sample files Birkbeck Network Your computer • Samples today are on shared drive Q: • Copy to normal working directory N:\My Documents on teaching workstations • Use Windows NT Some Examples of Web Documents • Simple HTML http://www.bbk.ac.uk/~vivien/minutes/reps may00.html • Complex PDF http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ccs/docs/9-32.pdf • Complex html http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ccs/index.htm