Building a web site A web site is composed of one or more web pages, each of which should have links to other pages on the web site and to other pages on other websites. All your pages are found on your server. Copies of your pages may also reside on your computer. Deleting files from your computer does not affect the files on the server. A file must be transferred to the server by an FTP program such as WS_FTP LE from Ipswitch (Google it if you want a copy). There are many other FREE FTP programs available. Building a web page. A web page consists of text, pictures and links. A web page is written in HTML code (Hyper-Text Mark-up Language) This language consists of tags, or commands, such as "Bold this text" which are bracketed by the pointy brackets that look like little arrowheads > or < These brackets in math are known as "is less than" and "is larger than" The tags come in pairs, and To write the "bold this text" command the letter b is bracketed at the front of the text and the letter b preceded by a forward slash is bracketed at the end of the text to be bolded. The code looks like this but with the pointy brackets instead of square ones: [b]Title[/b] If you want to look at some code use notepad. notepad is the best program with which to edit/build a web page, but any word processor will do. You must remember to save the file as a text file with no formatting, such as indents, italics, tabs, etc. as these will confuse the "browser" (such as, Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Firefox) notepad saves your work in txt only by default which makes it my first choice. You can see the code for any webpage on the internet by right clicking on some white space and choosing "View Source" Try iy on this page right now if you are viewing this online. I find it efficient to have three windows open on the desktop: - notepad - the FTP program and - the browser program, say Internet Explorer (IE) I make the edits in notepad, save it, upload the file to the server, refresh my browser page to wiew my changes. It's that simple, in theory. Uploading a file to the server overwrites the existing file on the server. It is vital to maintain backup files in case you accidentally delete, or corrupt a file. Sometimes it is easier to replace it with an older version, than to figure out what went wrong and to change it.
To post a picture such as below:
1) upload (copy) the picture file, .jpg or .gif are best because they are small and load quickly.
2) Write the code for the image in the appropriate page and save it. The code for an image is:
[img src=""] - using the brevets (pointy brackets); between the quotes goes the location of the image such as:
http://www.asparagus.theatrebc.org/images/image.jpg
3)upload the page to your server.