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WWW site management
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What is a Web site?
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A Web site is a coherent collection of HTML documents. A Web site
should incorporate the following:
1 - A systematic and logical design, so that navigation
throughout the site is intuitive.
2 - Thoughtful and creative use of images and text formatting to
give the documents a distinctive flair. Images should be as small
as pratically possible to cut down on bandwidth.
3 - And last but not least, some interesting content!
Web site creation
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1 - The two most powerful programming tools are the humble pen and
pad of paper. Planning your web site properly before putting
fingers to keys is the first step in proper design. Create a drawer
for your graphics, text, and HTML documents. Put these drawers into
one more to represent the site.
2 - Design graphics items such as breaks, bullets and banners. Get
a graphics convertor to convert Amiga ILBM/IFF format to GIF or
JPEG. These are widely available on the Aminet.
3 - Using a good text editor, type the written content of each page.
Remember to insert linefeeds (return strikes) at the end of each
line, or AWebEd may have a fit. You may want to use the AWebEd
editor or a dedicated editor.
4 - Now load up AWebEd. Using the default tools (and creating your
own for specialised purposes) format the document making full use of
headers, lists, and images. Add each document to the Hotlist.
5 - Once all the pages have been created, it is time to insert the
hyperlinks. Use " locallinks " beween your pages and check that
each of the links is working properly. Finally, insert links to
other WWW sites using the " Hyperlink " item.
6 - If you are sure that the site is fully functional, it is time to
transfer it to your filespace. Before that, however, it will be
necessary to alter all of the local links for other documents AND
images so that they will work on the different system. For each
locallink, erase each path string EXCEPT for the name. Hence:
file://localhost/work:network/website/documents/index.htm
or file://localhost/work:network/website/gfx/break.gif
becomes
index.htm
and break.gif
Make sure that you backup your files before doing this!
7 - Now FTP your files across to your filespace. Your website
should now be acessible to the outside world.
8 - The above system will work well for relatively small sites.
However, larger sites will suffer from the problem that since all
the files are stored in the root of your filespace, access times
will increase. It is better practise to try to keep the filespace
organised; for example, a directory for graphics, and so on.
Remember that the paths for locallinks and graphics will have to
reflect any changes in the re-organisation of the hierachy.
Maintenance
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Site maintenance is important, and oft neglected due to the
tedious nature of the task. Without maintenance, however, the site
will rapidly become stale. If you keep your hotlist updated,
maintenance becomes less of a chore. Frequency of maintenance
depends on the amount of time you can devote, and the frequency of
which your site is visited. Frequent visitors will want to see
something new every time! You can keep track of visitations and so
on using counters etc. that are widely available on the Net.