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S50-4135 WWW Page on Crab using Mozilla (PC last update 02/12/06)  

Creating a Web Page
on Crab
Using Mozilla Composer

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Computing Services Information Document Internet/WWW

Introduction

These instructions are just the basics for creating and posting your material as a web page on your Rutgers faculty/staff account. All faculty and staff are allocated 250MB of  disk space on their crab account.  Two tools are needed in order to create and make changes to a crab web page: Mozilla Composer and WebDrive, both of which are available on the Windows PCs in the public computing labs. 

If you are creating or editing a web page from home, both programs can be downloaded for free.  Click here to go to the Mozilla homepage and download the latest version for the PC. 

Rutgers faculty and staff can download WebDrive for their own use. More information is available here.
You may also want to check with your UCS (Unit Computing Specialist to see what web publishing software, he/she supports.)

This document was created for the Composer version on the PCs.  If you are using a Sun Workstation click here for documentation. For publishing purposes, you will need to know in which directory (folder) on your crab account to store the web page files. For faculty/staff accounts, the directory (folder) that stores personal web pages could be public_html or html. If your account predates 2001, your web page directory (folder) is most likely called html

There are two main steps involved in creating a web page:

1. Creating or Editing your web page.
2. Publishing (Saving) your web page.

Creating and Editing  A Web Page Using Mozilla Composer

Starting Mozilla Composer:
First you have to start up Mozilla Communicator package. After you have the Mozilla window open, from the File menu select New => Composer Page. This opens a blank page in the Mozilla Composer window.

Editing an Existing Web page

To edit  the web page you are viewing, select File  from the toolbar.  Then choose Edit Page from  the drop down menu.  This will bring up the web page you were viewing in Composer.

edit
 

To edit a web page which was previously started, start Mozilla Composer and click on the File menu and choose Open File from the drop down menu:

openfile

From the Open Page menu, you can browse for the file you want and open it in Composer.

Editing your web page:
Mozilla Composer is a program for editing web pages.  It operates in a manner similar to basic wordprocessing software such as  Microsoft Word. It allows you to do basic text editing without learning hypertext markup language (HTML).  The basic functions that can be performed with Composer include basic formatting,  linking, inserting graphics, and spell checking.   Advanced editing requires more sophisticated software and/or the knowledge of editing the actual code.   For more information about the advanced features you should look at the following page: Using Mozilla Composer.
 

Publishing Your Webpage

Before trying to publish your work, make sure you have connected to your crab drive using WebDrive. WebDrive can be accessed from the Start menu on the PCs in the public computing labs.  Click here for more information on using WebDrive, if you are at home. No matter how you publish, it is important to set file permissions correctly:
More information on using WebDrive to publish can be accessed here (see the "File Permissions" section).
The faculty/staff Web Directory Permissions web tool can be accessed here.

Viewing your web page:

To view your web page, first open a web browser and then enter the address for your web page in the address window.
All of the web pages in your public_html folder or html folder can be viewed in a browser by entering the address in this form:

http://crab.rutgers.edu/~netid/webfile.html

Where netid is your crab login name and webfile.html is the name of file in the public_html folder (directory) that you saved and wish to view.

Note

If you create a file in your public_html directory named index.html it can be viewed in a web browser by simply entering in:
http://crab.rutgers.edu/~netid

Example:
Let's say I just created a new page and published it to my public_html directory as index.html and my netid is johndoe. To view the file in a browser, I would only have to enter http://crab.rutgers.edu/~johndoe to view it.

Viewing Webpages that have been Updated

If you update a webpage and republish (resave) it using WebDrive, you must click on Reload in your browser in order to clear the old copy of the web page out of the computer's browser cache.

DLM (MJK) 02/12/2006
Rutgers University, Camden S50-4135_www_page_crab.php



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