Uploading Your Web Site

Your Web site becomes visible to other people only after you upload your Web site’s HTML page files to the Web server publishing your site. Before you upload your site, check for and correct any linking errors among your pages, and make sure that every HTML page file, image, and subfolder on your site is contained within the local root folder on your computer.

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Uploading your Web site (Windows)

Uploading your Web site (Macintosh)


Uploading your Web site (Windows)

On a Windows machine, if you create a Web site inside the local root (site) folder on your computer, you can upload everything in that folder (HTML documents, images, subdirectories) using the Uploader application. For more information on organizing your site, see the PageMill Online Help.

Uploader is a separate application shipped with PageMill and installed by the Installer in your PageMill folder. Uploader can be started from Windows itself or can be launched from within PageMill. The first time you use Uploader you will be prompted to enter site and user information. These settings then stay in effect until you change them.

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Uploading Your Web Site

To upload your Web site from within PageMill:

To upload an object or frameset:

To upload your Web site from Windows:


To upload your Web site from within PageMill:

1  Choose File > Upload > Page to display the Site Mapping Information dialog box.

2  For Site mapping name, enter a name that identifies the site for you, for example, Jane’s Home Page.

3  For Host name, enter the address of your ISP. You can enter a domain name, such as mc.isp.com, or an IP numeric address (which you can get from your provider). The name may be entered for you automatically.

4  For Remote folder, enter the name of the folder on the server that will store your files, for example, public_html. This is the relative path from the default directory on the server. Do not preceed the path name with a slash (/)

5  For Local folder, enter the name of your local root folder, for example, c:\PageMill\root folder. This name may be entered for you automatically.

6  For User name, enter the login name provided by your ISP.

7  For Password, enter the Web access password provided by your ISP.

8  For Upload basis, choose one of the following:

•  Previous log file, which uploads all files where the file date is different from the file date in the log or later than the date in the log.

•  Remote file status, which uploads files based on the Name, Size, and Date information for the files. If any of these identifiers is different from the file on the remote server, the file is uploaded.

•  Always, which uploads all files.

9  Click Save Password if you want PageMill to save your password.

10  Click OK.

11  Select the site you want to upload, and click Upload.

When uploading is complete, the dialog box closes. An error message appears if there is a problem during the uploading process.

Note: You cannot use proxy servers to upload your site.

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Uploading your Web site (Windows)

To upload an object or frameset:

To upload your Web site from Windows:


To upload an object or frameset:

Select the object or frameset document and choose File > Upload > Object or File > Upload > Frameset.

When you upload an object, the file containing the object and the files associated with the object are uploaded. For example, uploading an image used in a server-side image map uploads the image file and the associated server-side image map file.

When you upload a frameset, the frameset document and the associated files are uploaded.

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Uploading your Web site (Windows)

To upload your Web site from within PageMill:

To upload your Web site from Windows:


To upload your Web site from Windows:

1  Start the Uploader application.

2  Choose New or Edit if you need to change the site information.

3  Click Start Upload.

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Uploading your Web site (Windows)

To upload your Web site from within PageMill:

To upload an object or frameset:


Uploading your Web site (Macintosh)

On the Macintosh, if you create a Web site inside the local root (site) folder, you can upload everything in that folder (HTML documents, images, subdirectories) using an FTP program. The directory (or local root folder) structure on the Web server must mirror (or match) the directory structure on the Mac, to avoid breaking links. Ask your Internet Service Provider (ISP) for help on how to upload your Web files.

If you are not publishing the files from your own computer or administering the Web server yourself, the way you transfer your site to the Web server depends on how you get to the Web:

•  If you are using an ISP, talk with the Webmaster to determine how to transfer your pages to the Web server. In most cases, you may have FTP access only, so that you have to use FTP software such as Dartmouth’s Fetch to transfer the files to the server. For more information, see Making a Fetch file transfer go smoothly (Macintosh). If you don’t have the capability of transferring your files electronically, your ISP may request that you send your files on removable media, such as floppy disks or a ZIP drive.

•  If you work for a company that gives you file access to its Web server, you may be able to mount the server as a networked volume on your computer. This action lets you transfer your pages simply by copying them to the server from your desktop computer the way you would any other file. Again, consult with your company’s Webmaster to see if you have this option.

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Uploading Your Web Site

Making a Fetch file transfer go smoothly (Macintosh)

Setting up Fetch preferences


Making a Fetch file transfer go smoothly (Macintosh)

Dartmouth’s Fetch is a popular FTP file-transfer utility you can use to transfer files to a Macintosh, Windows, or UNIX-based Web server. Fetch is available at http://www.dartmouth.edu/pages/softdev/fetch.html and from the Info-Mac archive mirror sites on the World Wide Web. Links to the Info-Mac archives appear on many Web sites that provide information about the Macintosh computer. Ask their ISP for support when uploading your files, as it is the provider’s responsibility to help you.

Note: Fetch is an FTP file-transfer utility maintained by Dartmouth College, not to be confused with Extensis Fetch¨.

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Uploading your Web site (Macintosh)

Tips to make transfers smoother

Setting up Fetch preferences


Tips to make transfers smoother

If you use Fetch to transfer your files to the Web server, consider the following tips to help make transfers smoother:

•  If Fetch prompts you for the file type, specify Raw Data. For more information, see the next section, Setting up Fetch preferences.

•  Use the Raw Data format when you’re uploading graphics or other cross-platform files.

•  Do not include spaces in filenames or characters other than A to Z, a to z, 0 to 9, and _ (underscore). If you include spaces, Fetch converts them to underscores. This changes the filenames, which breaks all of the links on your site. If you are uploading to DOS servers, you can use a single period, hyphens (-), and tildes (~). Windows NT as well as UNIX and Macintosh platforms support these characters.

•  If you are transferring to a UNIX file server, be aware that UNIX is case-sensitive. For example, Test.html and test.html are considered two different filenames.

•  Set up preferences. See Setting up Fetch preferences for more information.

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Making a Fetch file transfer go smoothly (Macintosh)

Setting up Fetch preferences


Setting up Fetch preferences

In Fetch 3.0 or later, you can set Upload Preferences to prevent Fetch from adding extensions to your files and breaking file links.

To set up preferences in Fetch:

1  In Fetch, choose Customize > Preferences, and click the Upload tab.

2  For the default text format, choose Text from the pop-up menu.

3  For the default nontext format, choose Raw Data from the pop-up menu.

4  Deselect the Add .txt Suffix to Text Files option and the Add .bin suffix to Macintosh II files option to prevent Fetch from changing the filename suffix and breaking any links to the file.

5  Click OK.

To upload files from Fetch on computers running System 7.5. or later:

1  Select Automatic in the Fetch window to have the application automatically upload files in the appropriate format.

2  Drag and drop the Web site files from the Finder into the Fetch window.

To upload files from Fetch on computers running System 7.1.2. or earlier:

1  Choose Remote > Put Files and Folders.

2  Locate the file or folders you want to upload and click Add.

3  Click Done.

4  Click OK to confirm your selection. Make sure the Text File format is set to Text and the Other Files format is Raw Data.

If you upload files singly, be sure to put them in the right folders.

To upload entire folders using Fetch:

1  In Fetch, press Option and click Put File, or choose Remote > Put Folders and Files.

2  Select the file and folders you want to upload.

3  Click Add.

4  Click Done.

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Uploading your Web site (Macintosh)

Making a Fetch file transfer go smoothly (Macintosh)