Publishing A Website
Finalizing Your Work
After completing your editing, simply go to <File>, then <Save> in the Menu bar. The page and its associated assets will be saved to your site that has been created.
Replacing the Old With The New
Since you now have an accessible web page that will replace your current index.html, we need to rename the old one (in case you want some information from it) and change your accessible page to be your primary page (i.e. renaming newindex.html to index.html). Note: If you don’t have an index.html in your site, skip to the section entitled Renaming New Index.html.
Renaming Old index.html
- Select index.html in your site folder located in the Files Panel.
- Right-click on the index.html file. Select <Edit>, then <Rename>.
- Rename index.html to oldindex.html
Renaming New index.html
- Select newindex.html in your site folder located in the Files Panel.
- Right-click on the newindex.html file. Select <Edit>, then <Rename>.
- Rename newindex.html to index.html
Publishing Files to the Web
Once the index.html page has been established, we need to upload the changes to the web server. Do the following to upload the contents of the site to the CSUN Web Server:
- On the Menu bar, select <Site>, then <Put>. This will upload the content of your site to the CSUN Web Server.
After completing this reference guide, a new web presence will be completed. To see other web editors that can be used with the Faculty Web Templates, please refer to the online reference guide entitled Introduction to Web Editors.
The final step after creating any web site, is to make sure that it is accessible and compliant. In order to do that, a series of simple checks have to be ran using validation tools. The WAVE tool is the more user-friendly validation tool. Other tools, such as the AIS Toolbar for Internet Explorer and the WAT Toolbar for Opera, are more complex, but offer more tools for precise validation. To perform validation checks, please refer to the next section entitled Validating a Web Page.