Putting your course on the Web: A quick overview

by Christopher Essex
Instructional Consulting

This is meant to be a brief overview of the steps required to create a course website. For more details on the procedure, visit the web authoring tutorials created by the IU webmaster and his staff. 

1. Get a Steel (on the php.indiana.edu server) or a VERITAS (on the www.indiana.edu server) web account. You probably already have a Steel ccount. To check, visit http://steel.ucs.indiana.edu. 

2. Sketch out an overview of your site. It might look like this:

3. Create the web text files you will need, using an HTML editor or a WYSIWYG editor like Netscape Composer, Claris HomePage, Microsoft FrontPage or Adobe PageMill. Save the files on your computer in the same directory. 

4. Create any graphics you will need by scanning in photos or creating new graphic images with Adobe Photoshop or PaintShop Pro. 

5. Test out your files on your home computer. 

6. Put your files on the web by using FTP, Fetch, or the Publish or Upload feature of your word processor. The webserver will be either veritas.ucs.indiana.edu or ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu. 

7. Test your files on the webserver. 

8. Advertise your course website through traditional (bulletin board ads) and online (email, newsgroups, mailing lists, other websites, web directories and search engine) means.