Summary: Using Windows and Internet Explorer, you can copy files to a remote computer as easily as you can copy files from one folder to another on your own computer. This method of copying files is called FTP. Your Z drive is your private storage place, while your W drive is a publicly accessible place.

2. Enter the following address in the URL line of your browser and click the "Go" button or press the Enter key. Substitute "abc12" with your JAN or DANA username as shown:

3. You will be prompted for your DANA or JAN username (abc12 in this example) and your password. Then click the Log On button.

4. A browser window opens with files and folders in it.

5. The folder called "public_html" is your "W" drive. The "W" drive is your public web space, or the place where you can put HTML files. You can drag and drop your HTML files from your desktop into this folder. The files will be accessible to anyone on the Internet if you provide them with the address that points to that file. In the example below, the file is called "filename.htm". See Step 6 below for recommendations on naming HTML files.

6. For best results, the following file naming conventions are recommended for web pages:

a. use all lower case letters,

b. avoid spaces between words in a filename (but_underscore_is_ok),

c. be sure that the filename ends in .htm or .html

d. avoid "funny" characters like dollar signs, ampersands, asterisks, etc. in filenames,

e. avoid the dot, except to separate the filename from the extension as in filename.htm

f. the "~" symbol is called a "tilde" and, on most keyboards, is found in the upper left corner of the keyboard, left of the number 1 key. Hold down shift and the "~" key to type this symbol.

g. Less typing is good. An HTML file named "index.htm" loads automatically if you type the path to the file. For example, instead of calling a file "cc580_web.htm" and typing the following,

http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~abc12/cc580_web.htm

you can just rename the file "index.htm" and save your visitors some typing:

http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~abc12

7. The folder called "PC" is your "Z" drive. The "Z" drive is your private file storage space. Documents copied into this folder are accessible only to you by password, but you can retrieve the files using this same process on any computer with access to the Internet.

8. Remember the Refresh button in your browser's toolbar? If you upload more recent versions of your documents to your web folder, you won't see the changes until you quit and restart your browser or until you hit the Refresh button, forcing the browser to delete the cached copy of the page and reload it.

9. After your page loads, copy the address and e-mail it to a friend so they can visit your web page.

FTP: File Transfer Protocol

FTP is a method for copying files between your local computer and a remote computer across the local network or the Internet. Copying a file from your local computer to the remote computer is called an "upload." Copying a file from the remote computer to your local computer is called a "download."

Drag and Drop

This is a quick and easy way to move or copy a file. First put your mouse's pointer over a file's icon. Then press and hold down on the mouse's button, and don't let go! While continuing to hold down on the mouse button, move the mouse and the file is "dragged" along as you move the pointer. When you reach the desired location, such as a folder, let go of the mouse button and the file is "dropped."

HTML: Hypertext Markup Language

Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML, is a system of marking up, or tagging, a document so it can be published on the World Wide Web. Documents prepared in HTML contain reference graphics and formatting tags. You use a Web browser (such as Microsoft Internet Explorer) to view these documents.