Putting Documents on the Web

Vivien Hall

Central Computing Services

What is the Web?

• World Wide Web (WWW) - network of computers

• Web Servers - host pages for people to view

• Birkbeck Web Server - www.bbk.ac.uk

• NOT your PC/workstation

The World Wide Web

Your computer

Birkbeck Network

JANET

Internet

What is a format?

• A particular arrangement of internal data in a file.

• Almost everything associated with computers has a format.

Web Formats

• Hyper Text Mark up Language (HTML)

• Portable Document Format (PDF)

Software on your PC workstation

• Web Browser (e.g Netscape, Internet Explorer)

• Document processing packages (e.g Word 97, DreamWeaver, Adobe Exchange)

• File Transfer Package (FTP)

Web Browser

• View HTML format pages on Web Servers

• View HTML format pages your local machine

PDF Viewer

• View PDF format pages on Web Servers

• View PDF format pages your local machine

Document processing packages

• Microsoft Word 97 - Create documents in Word format, convert to HTML

• Adobe Exchange - Create pages in PDF format

• DreamWeaver - Create pages in HTML format

File Transfer Package (FTP)

• Put your pages on the server

Locating pages

• On local computer - locate drive, folder,file

• On Web – either– Type a URL (universal resource locator)

into the browser– or– Follow a link from another page

Links

• Others cannot see page until there are links to it

• Web Maintainers may provide links to your pages

• You will need to learn HTML to do them yourself

Steps to put a Word Document on the Web

• Step 1 Create the document in Word 97 on your local machine

• Step 2 Convert it to a Web format on your local machine

• Step 3 Determine location on Web Server (see local Web Maintainer)

• Step 4 Copy to Web Server

Step 1

• Create the document in Word 97 on your local machine

• Today - use samples copied to your private Birkbeck file space

Step 2

• Convert them to a Web format on your local machine

• Today - convert to HTML and PDF

• Study the pro’s and cons of HTML and PDF

• Be aware of limitations of Word 97

Step 3

• Determine location on Web Server

• Today - use test area supplied by CCS

• For real - see local Web Maintainer

Step 4

• Copy to Web Server

• Today - use Windows NT version of FTP

• For real - see local Web Maintainer

Copying Sample files

• Samples today are on shared drive Q:

• Copy to normal working directory N:\My Documents on teaching workstations

• Use Windows NT Explorer

Your computer

Birkbeck Network

Some Examples of Web Documents

• Simple HTML http://www.bbk.ac.uk/~vivien/minutes/repsmay00.html

• Complex PDF http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ccs/docs/9-32.pdf

• Complex html http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ccs/index.htm