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Putting Documents on the
Web
Vivien Hall
Central Computing Services
What is the Web?
• World Wide Web (WWW) - network of
computers
• Web Servers - host pages for people to
view
• Birkbeck Web Server - www.bbk.ac.uk
• NOT your PC/workstation
The World Wide Web
JANET
Birkbeck Network
Your computer
Internet
What is a format?
• A particular arrangement of internal data
in a file.
• Almost everything associated with
computers has a format.
Web Formats
• Hyper Text Mark up Language (HTML)
• Portable Document Format (PDF)
Software on your PC
workstation
• Web Browser (e.g Netscape, Internet
Explorer)
• Document processing packages (e.g
Word 97, DreamWeaver, Adobe
Exchange)
• File Transfer Package (FTP)
Web Browser
• View HTML format pages on Web
Servers
• View HTML format pages your local
machine
PDF Viewer
• View PDF format pages on Web
Servers
• View PDF format pages your local
machine
Document processing
packages
• Microsoft Word 97 - Create documents
in Word format, convert to HTML
• Adobe Exchange - Create pages in
PDF format
• DreamWeaver - Create pages in HTML
format
File Transfer Package (FTP)
• Put your pages on the server
Locating pages
• On local computer - locate drive,
folder,file
• On Web
– either
– Type a URL (universal resource locator)
into the browser
– or
– Follow a link from another page
Links
• Others cannot see page until there are
links to it
• Web Maintainers may provide links to
your pages
• You will need to learn HTML to do them
yourself
Steps to put a Word
Document on the Web
• Step 1 Create the document in Word 97
on your local machine
• Step 2 Convert it to a Web format on
your local machine
• Step 3 Determine location on Web
Server (see local Web Maintainer)
• Step 4 Copy to Web Server
Step 1
• Create the document in Word 97 on
your local machine
• Today - use samples copied to your
private Birkbeck file space
Step 2
• Convert them to a Web format on your
local machine
• Today - convert to HTML and PDF
• Study the pro’s and cons of HTML and
PDF
• Be aware of limitations of Word 97
Step 3
• Determine location on Web Server
• Today - use test area supplied by CCS
• For real - see local Web Maintainer
Step 4
• Copy to Web Server
• Today - use Windows NT version of
FTP
• For real - see local Web Maintainer
Copying Sample files
Birkbeck Network
Your computer
• Samples today
are on shared
drive Q:
• Copy to normal
working directory
N:\My Documents
on teaching
workstations
• Use Windows NT
Some Examples of Web
Documents
• Simple HTML
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/~vivien/minutes/reps
may00.html
• Complex PDF
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ccs/docs/9-32.pdf
• Complex html
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ccs/index.htm