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Once you have completed a web page, it needs to be stored to (uploaded to) the diocesan web server. The page and all associated files such as external style sheets and images will need uploaded. The diocesan web server supports two of the most common protocols for uploading files, FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning). Before uploading files, you may need to ask the CEM office to create a login account for you. You will be provided with a domain/host name, username, and password for use during the login process. When uploading files, it is necessary to maintain the directory structure that exists on the computer used to design your web page. For example, if you created a page named tuesday.html and that web page includes graphics stored in a folder titled images, then you will need to upload the graphics to a folder on the server with an identical name (images). When naming files, you are encouraged to take advantage of the default page shortcut. If a file named index.html, index.htm, or index.shtml is uploaded, it is not necessary for the end user to type the full URL. For example, http://www.StCloudDiocese.org/server/index.shtml can be shortened to http://www.StCloudDiocese.org/server/. All file names (web pages, style sheets, graphics, and all other files) should contain standard characters. Filenames can include letters, numbers, hyphens (-), underscores (_), and of course a period (.). Most other characters, such as spaces ( ), commas(,), slashes (/), and colons (:), should NOT be used in filenames or folder names. Use caution when deleting files on the server. All major web sites come with three items that should not be deleted. They are errors, robots.txt, and WS_Admin. |
