Publishing A Website
Finalizing Your Work
After completing your editing, simply click the <Publish> button in the toolbar. The page and its associated assets will be published to your public_html folder.
Once you have published your page, you will be able to view it through any web browser by going to the following URL:
http://www.csun.edu/~[CSUN Login ID]/newindex.html
Note: CSUN Login ID should be your CSUN Login ID.
Replacing the Old With The New
Since you now have an accessible web page that will replace your current index.html, we need to rename the old one (in case you want some information from it) and change your accessible page to be your primary page (i.e. renaming newindex.html to index.html). Note: If you don’t have an index.html in your public_html folder, skip to the section entitled Renaming New Index.html.
Renaming Old index.html
- Select <Start>, then <Computer>
- Select your Webdrive
- Select your public_html folder
- Select your current index.html. Right-click, then select <Rename>
- Rename index.html to oldindex.html
Renaming New index.html
- Select newindex.html. Right-click, then select <Rename>
- Rename newindex.html to index.html
- View new web presence by entering http://www.csun.edu/~[CSUN Login ID] into any web browser. In this example, the user’s CSUN Login ID is hasp. Note: You may have to clear the cache in your web browser to make sure that you get the most current version of your index.html.
After completing this reference guide, a new web presence will be completed. To see other web editors that can be used with the Faculty Web Templates, please refer to the online reference guide entitled Introduction to Web Editors.
The final step after creating any web site, is to make sure that it is accessible and compliant. In order to do that, a series of simple checks have to be ran using validation tools. The WAVE tool is the more user-friendly validation tool. Other tools, such as the AIS Toolbar for Internet Explorer and the WAT Toolbar for Opera, are more complex, but offer more tools for precise validation. To perform validation checks, please refer to the next section entitled Validating a Web Page.