| The first thing which needs to be done is building the
web pages. You can check out our web design services on
the Services
and Pricing page. There are many places on the
internet which will help you get started. There are also many HTML converters and editors available.
Check out http://cws.internet.com/ for just a few of these. |
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When you have all of your graphics and your pages completed, log into your shell account and issue the
ls command. For help with shell access, click here.
Next, type:
cd public_html and press ENTER on your keyboard.
Ensure that your first page, or 'home' page, is named index.html,
default.html, home.html, or any of these names with html
or htm file extension. Transfer all of your graphics and
page files into this public_html directory.
One of the easiest ways to transfer the files is to use FTP.
For help with FTP, click here.
If you are on a Macintosh, be sure to transfer the files in
'raw' format. The other way to transfer is to call into your shell account using a regular communications program which will transfer
using Z-modem. Once you log into the system, tell our system to
rz, select the files you are uploading, and start the transfer.
Once the files are in your public_html directory, you will need to change the permissions so that
other people viewing the page can access them. Enter this
command while in the public_html directory:
chmod 644 file.name
Also, if you have several files with the extension .html you can use wildcards to change many files at one time, such as
chmod 644 *.html *.gif. This command will change all files which end in
.html and .gif to the 644 permissions. Ensure to recheck your permissions when you upload updates to your web pages.
When all of your graphics and html files have been transferred to our system, you are ready to view your
page(s). The URL for your web pages will be:
http://www.cowboy.net/~username/
If your email address is johndoe@cowboy.net... |
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...your URL is http://www.cowboy.net/~johndoe/ |
Remember, the shell is highly case-sensitive so you might want to check all of your links to make
ensure that they are functioning properly. |
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