Transcript Publish your Web page

Let’s Get Started
Topic: ULM Internet Publishing
for Faculty and Staff
• Use the menu on your left to
make a choice at any time.
• Use the “Click to Advance”
button to move forward.
• Any Questions? Click on the
“Email” button.
Publishing Web Pages
• It’s easy to use your ULM Faculty
Email Account as a Web site.
• It’s easy to create, edit, and
publish to the Web with “Mozilla”.
What You Need
• the login and password of your
ULM Faculty Email Account
• the free Mozilla* Web application
with integrated HTML editor
*Download the full version from mozilla.org
4 Steps to Publishing
1. Edit with “Composer”
2. Set up your Publishing Site
3. Enter File Name
4. Publish it.
Step 1: Edit a Web Page
• Open Mozilla Composer
In Mozilla, open Composer: File => New => Composer
Page
• Edit a Web page
Just start typing! Mozilla Composer is very much like a word
processor.
• Publish your Web page
You only need to set up your Publishing Site once.
Step 2: Set Publish Site
In Mozilla, open Composer: File => New => Composer Page Then, select Edit => Publishing Site Settings.
Defined Site Name:
When you define a Site Name, you define the settings of your site.
Publishing Address:
Type in this address; this is the ULM faculty Web site server location.
HTTP Address:
This is the location to view your Web page on the Internet.
User Name:
This is your ULM faculty email login.
Password:
This is your ULM faculty email password.
Please Note:
Substitute your_ULM_email_login with your own ULM faculty email login.
Step 3: File Name
In Composer: Publish => Publish (Tab)
Site Name:
Page Title::
File Name:
Your Site Name should appear here. If it does not, select it.
This is the internal page title for your Web page.
This is the actual name of your file. Use .html as the suffix.
Note: Use lowercase characters. Don’t use spaces. Avoid unusual characters.
Note: index.html is the “default” file name for your “home page”.
Step 4: Publish
In Composer: Publish Page => Settings (Tab)
Site Name:
Publishing Address:
HTTP Address
User Name:
Password:
Your Site Name should appear here.
The publishing address should appear here.
The HTTP address of your index.html page, or “home page”, of your Web site.
Enter your own ULM email login.
Enter your password.
Click on “Publish” to publish or “upload” this file to your ULM account..
Congratulations!
To access your Web page, type the entire address, shown below, into the
Mozilla browser (NOT Mozilla Composer) window:
http://www.ulm.edu/
~your_ULM_email_login/index.html
Note:
Substitute your_ULM_email_login with your ULM faculty email login.
After you have published a file successfully, Composer saves the
publish settings. This means that you can easily modify your online
Web page and publish the changes with just a click of the Publish
button!