building a basic web page

8. Uploading to your server

You must have a web server account - this will include an ID, user name and password plus the IP Address of your webserver.
To upload you will need to use an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) application. Home Page has one built in it or you may use one of the many available freely (Fetch is a simple one).

Preparing to upload the site - see Uploading to a Server in the Help section of Home Page for more details.

Before you upload your pages to the Web, use the Site Editor to do a final check on all the files in your site. To prepare for uploading your site, you can use the Site Editor to:

• check the estimated download times of all the pages in your site
• verify that all links and references in your pages are not broken
• consolidate all referenced images and multimedia files
• identify the location where files will be uploaded

To use the Site Editor:

Choose Open Folder as Site from the File menu.
The Browse for Folder dialog box (Windows) or the Select a Folder dialog box (Macintosh) appears.
In the dialog box, navigate to your site folder.
Click OK (Windows) or Select "folder name" (Macintosh).

All the files in your site folder appear in the Site Editor. The Site Editor also displays the name of your site and the total number and size of your Web pages.

Note When you open your site in the Site Editor, Claris Home Page creates a site definition file in your site folder called "site_definition.wst." (The .wst extension stands for "Web site.") Claris Home Page uses this file to store your site settings.

The Tools below are displayed at the top of the open window

The first two allow you to Create a New Page and adjust Document Options. The other four are for: Checking the document statistics Consolidating media files Verifying links and references Specifying the Web server account see Uploading to a Server in the Help section of Home Page for more details.