Submit
You will then wait (the longest will be a day) and for a reply in your email.
My reply
Hi drscng, Your Personal Pages account has been activated. Please login with
Userid: (This is your Internet user ID. Nothing new)
Password: (This is your home page password. You need this to transfer (upload) your home page in the ISP server. It is different from your Internet password).
This will be followed by instructions on how to upload your pages. They are not written for IT illiterate like me, and I found it a great problem to obtain assistance to do so. Finally I did it and I will share the knowledge with you in the next section.
Your url is http://web.singnet.com.sg/~drscng/
This will be your shop address. Any Internet user, from any part of the world can come and visit your shop by clicking onto this address in their web browser. There is no difference between http://web.singnet.com.sg/~drscng/ and http://www.singnet.com.sg/~drscng/
A Counter has been automatically created for your use. To use your counter, simply include the line in your html page < img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=drscng.dat" >
To use it as a time clock... < img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?display=clock" >
And finally, to use it as a date clock < img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?display=date" >
INSTALLING THE WS_FTP
FTP is the acronym for File Transfer Protocol. It is the software that transfers the files from your PC to the ISP server. You can find it in the CD provided to you when you sign up an Internet Account with Singnet. You will most likely have it in your computer already when you install your Internet. It should be in the Program Folder.
If you have not install the entire program from the CD then you will have to re-install it. The installation is very friendly and you should have no problem with this. (If you are lost here contact me). For other ISP users you can download this soft-ware free from www.ftpplanet.com. Of course you will have to pay for the Pro version. In our case the LE version will do fine.
UPLOADING
This is to load all the files you have prepared into the server. Once in the server everyone in the whole world can see your work when they enter your address into the Internet.
Try to be organised before uploading your files. Use your own system. Only two terms you need to worry about. Files and folders. A file is a file. If it is a written text it will be .htm, then there is the graphic files. A folder is where you place your files. So far we have kept all our files in the floppy disc using drive A, and all our graphics in a folder in the same floppy disc. Let us assume that we have two text files, index.htm and L1.htm, and one image file (named web.jpg); and you have kept the image file in the images folder you have created in the floppy disc. If you consider your floppy disc as a directory, then the images folder is a subdirectory.
In Singnet (my ISP) the directory assigned to the user has a similar structure. There is an images subdirectory folder present. For other ISP you may have to create your own subdirectory, which is a very simple procedure. The instruction should be provided.
Whatever it is you must decide on the structure before you load, since the links written must be able to locate the needed connection.
I will now organised my server directory according to what we have in our floppy disc. All the text files will be in the main directory and the graphics in the images folder. Then to link the image (web.jpg) to the file just use the tag
< img src="images/web.jpg" >
To link one text file (L1.html) to the other (index.htm) just use the tag
< a href="L1.html" > (marker) < /a >
Note that I have used html instead of htm. This is because Singnet can only read html and cannot comprehend htm. Now you are finally ready to upload.
Open up the starting screen of your PC, the Window. Click on the Start button at the bottom of the left hand corner.
Program WS_FTP WS_FTP95LE
You will then have to fill up the following
Profile Name: (choose web page)
Host Name / Address:(type in web.singnet.com.sg, or according to the account given to you)
Host Type: (choose automatic detect)
User ID: (Your Internet ID)
Password: (This is the web site password given to you)
Execute
You will now enter the WS_FTP screen
WS_FTP
You will see two windows.
The left window is labeled Local System. The first item under the blank space is a bend green arrow pointing upwards.
There is a center pillar with two arrow buttons
The right window is labeled Remote System. Under the blank space you will see the following items
- _private
- images
- public_html
- index.html
Click public_html so that it appears in the blank window above.
Go over to the left window and click on the bend arrow. The contents under it will change. Actually it is displaying the directory of the folders in your PC. You will have to find your drive A by using the click and row down the screen functions.
When you see folder A in the window, click on it and you should see the images folder and the index.htm and L1.htm files listed.
The first step is to change the htm into html. Highlight index.htm, go to the center pillar and click Rename and change index.htm to index.html. (Your index file should now read index.html). Do the same for all your htm files.
Highlight index.html, click the arrow button pointing to the right, in the center pillar.
At the bottom left hand corner you will see some activity telling you that the file is being transfered to the ISP server. Wait until it says listing is complete. This will take less than a second. You have uploading your index.html file onto the server. Do the same for all your text files in your main directory.
Now let us move on to the images. Highlight images folder on the left column (that is the images folder in your computer) and again click the arrow button pointing to the right. Wait until listing is complete. This will take a little longer. But still less than a second.
Close the screen, go back to your Singnet Window and log in your address.
You should see your Home Page.
Click on all the links to see that they were linked correctly.
If you encountered any problem try to figure out what is wrong. Give it a good try. You will learn more about how the technology work in the process. Of course you can contact me as the last resort. I will try to share with you whatever I know.
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