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Web Publishing for Students - Detailed Instructions
 
Student Web Publishing Procedure 

All students will publish their web sites through their EdShare account.   Publishing a web site is as easy as dragging and dropping files to a folder called public_html in your EdShare folder. 

Web addresses for students: http://myweb.stedwards.edu/loginname

The student web page index is located at http://myweb.stedwards.edu/.

If you need assistance or have questions about this procedure please contact the Computer Help Desk at 448-8443 or helpline@stedwards.edu.

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Instructions on Publishng a Web Site at St. Edward's

All students publishing web pages at St. Edward's University need to complete the following steps to publish a web page:

  1. Create your web pages
    Instructions for creating web pages and information on Computer Training Courses dealing with web development may be found on the Web Development site.
    When you create your web pages, make sure you name the first or home page index.htm or index.html.
  2. Upload your web pages to the server edshare.stedwards.edu
    Save the files in the directory public_html. If you are on campus, login to any lab or classroom computer and you will automatically be logged into EdShare. In your EdShare directory (I:) I drive icon for EdSharewill be a directory public_html.

    Save all of your web documents in the public_html folder. This includes your home page (index.htm or index.html) as well as all images and web pages. If you are in a residence hall or off campus you will need to use a Secure FTP client to upload your files to EdShare.
    Instructions for using SFTP software to access EdShare (Windows)
    Instructions for using SFTP to access EdShare with Fetch (Mac OS X)
    Instructions for usin SFTP to access EdShare with FUGU (Mac OS X)
  3. View your web page
    Once you have successfully published your web page your web address will be http://myweb.stedwards.edu/loginname

Resources for Developing a Web Site

If you would like training on creating a web page, several classes are offered in HTML, including an introductory course HTML I, HTML II which includes instruction in creating tables, HTML III which focuses on forms. See the training schedule at http://www.frc.stedwards.edu/workshop/. Courses are also offered in Macromedia Dreamweaver which is the supported Web Development application on campus. If you use Microsoft FrontPage, please be aware that FrontPage extensions are not available on our web server.

See Web Development Resources for more information on creating web pages.

If you need assistance with the process of publishing or creating your page, please call the Help Desk at 448-8443.

 
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Updated: 09/27/2007
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