Instructions for uploading to pembertonfamily.com

Instructions for creating and uploading to pembertonfamily.com

In order to protect pembertonfamily.com from the internet vandals, we have worked out a way to allow anyone in the family to upload their pages to a private staging area which is not available to the public. This staging area is password protected, but the password will need to be given to you and others in the greater Pemberton family to upload their publications. By using a staging area, we can assure that only the webmaster can place or change material in the public area of pembertonfamily.com. That explains why the following instructions read the way they do.

1. Use the resources on the previous page to plan and build your pages on your computer. You will want to maintain your entire site on your hard drive in exactly the same structure as you will want it on the internet. That way, when you want to correct a spelling or add a name to a page you can fix that one item and only transfer it to the internet. You will find it much easier to do it this way. Your basic directory name should be exactly the same as the directory for your site on the internet - something like "john&mary", or "bill&jillkramer" or "williamsmith".
2. In order for the pembertonfamily.com navigation bar to appear at the bottom of every page, it is necessary that all your pages include the bar. To make this easy for you, here is a template. Just drag your cursor across it and copy it and paste it into the page in your software (PageMill, Word, Dreamweaver, etc.) and save it as an HTML file. Note that in some applications, such as Microsoft Word (See Special Instructions for below.), most of this text (probably all but "Last Update:) will be hidden. That's OK.
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
Replace this line with your whole page.

<BR>
Last Update: 
</body>
</html>

3. When you are ready to move a page or pages, to the internet, contact the webmaster and tell him to create your base directory (like "john&mary") and get the password for uploading.

3. Upload the page(s) to the staging area at pembertonfamily.com. If you are doing the initial creation, please upload that base directory and everything in it just as it should be on the internet.

4. Tell the webmaster your stuff is ready. He will move the page or pages into your directory on the public area and you will be "live".

Note that the first page on your site must be named "index.shtml" when it is finally placed in your directory on pembertonfamily.com. When your site is just one page, it must have that name. When it eventually becomes many pages, this first page will have become mostly an index, table of contents, or directory to your site within pembertonfamily.com. You must always have a page in your top level directory with this name.

Special Instructions for using Microsoft Word to create pages.

1. Drag your cursor across the template above and copy it to the clipboard.
2. Create a new document in Word.
3. Paste the template from the clipboard.
4. Choose "Save As" from the "File" menu. Select "Text Only (*.txt)" as the type to be saved. Set the name of the document to "x.htm" ("x" repesents the name you actually want to use.) Click the "Save" buton. If Word gives you a warning about the extension "htm" or about other applications, save it anyway.
5. Open the document again using the "Open" choice from the "File" menu. You should see just the line "Replace this line with your whole page." and the words "Last Update:".
6. Begin to compose your page by writing over the top of the line "Replace this line with your whole page."

Last update:Monday, 29-May-2000 23:46:22 MST