WEB/240 WEEB240 WEB 240 WEEK 5 DISCUSSION 4

WEB 240 WEEK 5 DISCUSSION 4

Publishing Your HTML Pages

 Publishing Your HTML Pages

Now that you are learning to create your own HTML pages, the possibilities really begin to open up for you! For example, you could create a family website to publish your own digital pictures for your friends and family to look at. Another very useful thing that you can do is to create your own download page. Have you ever wanted to email a file to someone, but that file was larger than what was acceptable for that person's email server, and it was rejected?

Well, now, you could create your own download page, by simply creating hyperlinks to those files. Then, instead of emailing the actual file(s) to people, you could just supply the hyperlink to your download page, and have them click on the hyperlink, and download the file(s). Maybe you want to create an information website for your career or job search that contains your resume, job history, references, information request form, etc, etc... The possibilities are unlimited now.

Well, what you will be doing in this class, is just creating your HTML pages, saving them in a directory on our hard drive, and double clicking on the file to view them. When you do that, your pages are not actually being "served up" by a Web server. Instead, your Web browser just loads the HTML file up, parses the tags and content, and then renders you page in the browser window. Next time you try it, look at the address bar of your browser. You will see your drive letter, and the Window's physical path to that file, instead of an actual URL that begins with: http://

If you want others to be able to view your HTML pages from across the Internet, then you need to "publish" your pages (put them on a computer that has Webserver software running on it). I'm sure that many of you have DSL, Cable Modems, etc, and many ISPs (Internet Service Providers) offer free website "hosting", where you can just FTP (File Transfer Protocol) your HTML pages to their server, and then they will provide you with a domain address that you give to others to type in their browser to access your pages.

Now would be a perfect opportunity for everyone, who has not already went through the process of the publishing their web pages, to actually try it out! Here is the link to a FREE web host that actually doesn't inject any of have any of those annoying ads into your pages!

    http://www.000webhost.com/

Here are some links to some more free web hosts. However, these hosts will 

display banner ads on your pages:

http://www.0catch.com/

http://www.50megs.com/

http://www.tripod.lycos.com/

http://www.freewebsitehosting.com/

http://www.1sthostweb.com/

http://www.freeservers.com/

http://www.freewebsites.com/

http://www.thefreesite.com/Free_Web_Space/