Personal Education
The final step of the P2PU Webmaking101 sequence is actually publishing a file to a live web site.
http://runeman.org/helloworld.html is that effort for me.
Many steps follow…
My initial FTP client was a Windows tool called CuteFTP. I liked it and pushed many pages to the school web site with it. Later while helping others to get started, I recommended FileZilla because it was effective and free.
While shifting to GNU/Linux, I tried to be comfortable with the command line FTP commands, but was spoiled by the GUI from my past experience. I didn’t transfer files ten times a day, every day so I didn’t get enough practice with the command line FTP methods. It is, however, nice to know that the basic steps will work if I need them. I can review the instructions as needed (because I’ll have to be connected to the Internet if I’m worried about using FTP, anyway!) I gradually experimented a bit and settled on gFTP which fit with my style. It offers simple click to transfer, warnings about overwriting, the ability to change advanced file permissions.
For most of us in the Webmaking101 course, the “File Transfer Protocol” client is the key tool to learn, but it should be understood that there is also a server component needed at your hosting service. They have set it up. If you later want to set up your own server for less public experiments, you will need to install an FTP server package. The web server, by itself, doesn’t do FTP.
Whatever choice you make of FTP client, keep posting!
P2PU Webmaking101+
P2PU Webmaking101 is designed to get you from the first step of writing html code to actually launching a hosted web site. It is a short series of practical tasks.
After you launch your site, you need to keep moving. Make pages. Experiment. Publish your efforts as you are satisfied with your progress (even incomplete).
Make your efforts known on blog posts, comments back to your P2PU peers, tweets, etc. Maybe what you found out will help one of them understand something that has been difficult.
Here’s one of my experiments with Unicode and JavaScript.