Instructions for Web Publishing


1. How to get a 11 mbytes free web site in www.geocities.com?

a. Open www.geocities.com, and click the flashing Join Now . On Choose Your Membership page, choose "Free Personal Home Page Program".Click Join at the bottom of this page.
b. Follow through the registration procedure. Provide your personal information and your e-mail address. Click I Agree.

c. Answer more questions, and make your personal choices from the offers from geocities.com, and accept the agreement.

d. Choose your area of interest. In our case, you might like to choose "Arts and Literature."

e. Choose your neighborhood as part of your domain. Click Continue.

f.    Now just pick one of the vacant addresses  and move in! Now you need to copy down the name of your neighborhood and the "lot", which will be your domain in geocities.com. For example, if you have chosen Broadway as your neighborhood, and find the lot Wing/4002, your complete web site address should be : www.geocities.com/Broadway/Wings/4002.

g. Use three lines to describe the main features of your web site.

h. After you finish the three lines, click "Move me in".

i. Go to your e-mail  immediately to find out the password Geocities.com has issued to you. Don't worry when the password looks strange because we can easily change it. To change your password or any other personal information, use the Profile Editor:
http://www.geocities.com/members/tools/profile_editor.html.

j. Go back to geocities.com and login by clicking the Member Area on the upper right hand corner of your page.  Type in your username and your new password. Enter. Click file manager, and click enter file manager. Now we are ready to upload our index page which is our home page into Geocities.

k. To upload your page into geocities's site, we need to upload your index.html to replace the geocities's index file. Click Browse and find your index file or any other file you would like to upload into your geocities's site. Click Upload. Now you can preview your home page.  If you can see your own index page in Geocities, then Congratulations! You have just succeeded in creating your own web site.


2.How to get a free web site in www.angelfire.com?

a.  How to register in www.angelfire.com ?

In the web address bar, type in www.angelfire.com->enter->Click Register->Type in ny4 for the 1st box-> Type in mbhsxxxx(your four-digit ID) in the 2nd box->Choose a password(6-8 characters)->use our school address(411 Pearl Street, New York, NY 10038)->Use mbhsXXXX(four-digit ID)@mbhs.bergtraum.k12.ny.us as your temporary e-mail address->Click Create Account.->Wait for the message of "Congratulations!", which means you have succeeded in registering.->Click the sign on your left-hand side(to create a new e-mail account in angelfire.com)->Follow the instructions to finish the registration by answering the questions->Skip all the optional questions->After you finish all these procedures, close angelfire.com->reopen angelfire.com->login->use your mbhsxxxx as your user's name->your password->Go to Preferences->Choose to"change your e-mail address"-> Type in your new e-mail address, which is mbhsxxx@angelfire.com. If your ID is 2234, now you have your new e-mail address(mbhs2234@angelfire.com) and your new web page address is (www.angelfire.com/ny4/mbhs2234).


b..How to upload files into angelfire.com to create your own page?

Open www.angelfire.com/Click Login->Type in /ny4/mbhsxxx as the directory name->enter your password->Click Browse->Choose the files you want to upload(your html files are in h: folder. So type h: to find your files in the Netscape-web folder; If you upload files from your floppy disc, then type in a: and choose any file from there.)->Click Upload to finish the uploading process.->Click View to view your site (Reminder: If the file you are uploading is open, it can not be uploaded. You need to close all the files you want to upload.)
* When you see a steering wheel logo, it means you are in the web where you can only view your site without doing any changes; if you see a pen logo, it means you are in your web composer where you can change, recreate, add, or delete your files.

c.How to add images into your files ?

Go to www.angelfire.com->login->Type in /ny4/mbhsxxx as your directory->Click Images under Tools on your right hand side.->Choose any image you want to copy onto your files->Right Click your mouse->Choose Save Image as..->Save the image in your folder and remember the file name of the image->Click Insert on you Tool Bar->Click Image->Choose from Files->Choose the image you want to add to your page->Click Open->Click O.K.->Save the image file->Upload the image the same way as you do with html files by Clicking Browse and Upload.

d.To make the web page appear , you must save your index page as index.html. The rest of the files can be .htm.


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