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Changing the File Name of Your Home Page

Work in Class on Web Site - Q&A

Some things to check for:

• Do you use a standard font for your text blocks? Why is this important?
• Do you have good clear contrast in your text blocks/backgrounds?
• Do you have titles for your pages, not just Untitled 1?
• Do you use tables or some other method to keep your text and pictures in order?
• Was your web folder saved in the correct manner in the right place?
• Are your navbars centered when appropriate?
• Do you have an email link?
• Do you include a thumbnail image?
• Do you include an animation or other dynamic effect?
• Do you use a consistent clear layout and color scheme?
• Are your images clear, not "pixelated?"
• Are your images distorted or out of proportion?
• Do your viewers have to scroll a long way to reach the end of the page?
• Do your hyperlinks work, both internal and external?
• Are your hyperlinks clearly marked, logically placed, and easy to follow?

HANDS-ON: Publishing Your Website on the Trinity Server

For safety, backup your Web in your shared folder onto your Y drive.

Open your HTML-Documents folder on Sol and copy and paste the folders and files from inside your Web folder (25myweb). The  page named index.htm is your home page.

To open your HTML-Documents folder:
start >> run>> \\sol.cs.trinity.edu\userid\Local\HTML-Documents (substitute your own userid)

 

url: http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~userid

Publish Web on Sol and view Webs on Internet.
Check title that appears on title bar on each page.
Have someone else browse to your web and check for broken links and images.

Unpublish Web on Sol (if you ever need to):

Delete the files in your HTML-Documents folder in your Sol account.

Homework:

1. Make any corrections to your website that you feel necessary. They will not be fully evaluated until the end of class on Thursday.

2. Make a new blog entry about your site. Begin with this statement:

    Please visit my website at www.cs.trinity.edu/~username (use your own username, of course).

    Then address the following questions:

• Was making our site easier or harder than you thought?
• Which editor did you use? KompoZer? Expression Web? Hand code? Other?
• Which page or section are you most proud of and why?
• What would you have changed?
• What was your biggest technical challenge?
• What was your biggest design challenge?
• Who will you show your site to?
• Might you make another site for another class in the future?

 

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