There are two approaches you can use to maintaining your HTML files:
The first method requires a greater investment in learning new software, but involves fewer and quicker steps once you know how to do it. The second method permits you to do most of your work in an environment you are already comfortable with, and to preview your work without making it public, but does require a multi-step process to transfer the files to the server. The second method also permits you to take advantage of mouse-based editors, including HTML editors that have recently been developed for direct use and those that are add-ons to or new features of full-function word processors such as WordPerfect and Microsoft Word. This Guide includes instructions for people who use both approaches. For non-HTML files (GIF, JPEG, etc.), we expect you to create them on your personal computer and then upload them to the server.
As indicated by the Table of Contents, this Guide addresses primarily mechanical aspects, such as file name choices and file transfer methods. This guide does not address general issues of HTML use, style, or content for web publishing, except for section D of Chapter I (which presents our expectations for basic content standards); a short bibliography (URLs and books) in Appendix I; and Appendix VI (which focuses on functional design). This Guide does not address basic concepts of the web or internet; if you are learning about the web at the same time you are becoming a pagemaster, please see the Reference Manual, Putting the Internet to Work, by the Reference Librarians and Computer Services, and consult the on-line resources available from the Academic Technology home page.
Dick Piccard revised this file (http://www.ohiou.edu/pagemasters/memo85/intro.html) on March 7, 2000.
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