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.
3. Other sites that offer free web space for you and your students to publish the finished work--