Ritual Studies II

CREATING YOUR WEB SPACE & POSTING YOUR FILES 

These instructions were prepared by Russ Hunt for use by his English 1006 students, then modified by John McKendy and further modified by Alison Belyea. 

An overview

As a member of the St. Thomas community, you have a Web site. If you don't use it, it doesn't matter, because nothing will be in it; but if you put an HTML file in the folder named public_html in your F:\ drive on the server, it will be visible to anyone on the Web who knows where to look.

Your Web site's address is http://people.stu.ca/~gwxyz where gwxyz is your STU logon ID.

Creating the web space for Ritual Studies II (some of you already did this step) Creating your index page for Ritual Studies


Everyone will create a page and name it rite2.html.  In Mozilla, under "file" click on "new composer page".  As soon as the page opens you can save it.  Clicking on "save" you will see a box open.  In this box type rit2 and click "ok".  The save screen will open and want to save the file as rite2.html.  Make sure you are in the right folder, the one with your name, and then click on "save".

Now you are ready to add things to this page.  I suggest starting by putting your name here in largish letters "Alison Belyea's Ritual Studies II Mainpage" -- or whatever you like.

Underneath this I would like you to list out the individual responses you have generated this far. 

Grimes 2-13
Discription of ordinary behaviour
Territorial Passage and the classification of Rites
and so on ...

Once you have your list typed you need to save the responses in html.  I think it is easiest to open new composer pages and "copy and paste" from wherever you originally wrote the file.  You have already saved your description as "describe.html".  I suggest calling the other files something very easy, like resp1, resp2, resp3. 

Since most of you already have the file named describe, let's make the link for this one first.  To do this, highlight the text "description of Ordinary behaviour, and the "right click".  A box will open,  and you will choose "create link".  In this link box you will type the file name "describe.html", and click on "ok".  Save after every change you make.  You can do the same with your other files.  I will be around to help.


Saving files

You need to save your file as a web document -- that is, in HTML format. How you do this depends on what word processor you're using.
Checking the file
Now you need to make sure that that worked.  Go to http: //people.stu.ca/~gwxyz/yourname/rite2.html (or whatever the file name is you just saved (where gwxyz is your STU logon ID). If your file's in the right place with the right name, it should appear. If not, you'll need to do some troubleshooting.

Working from off-campus

When you're in one of the labs on campus, you have direct access to your public_html folder,  and you can create and modify files in it simply by opening them with a word processor or HTML editor.

When you're off campus -- that is, not in the lab -- you don't have direct access to the files in your STU file area, and therefore not to your public_html folder. What you need to do to work with them is to copy them from there to your home computer, where you can edit them, and then put them back. And for a Web page, the important thing is putting them back: if you edit and save them on your local computer without putting them back into your public_html folder, what anyone else sees on your Web site won't change.

To change anything in your F:\ drive, or your folder on people.stu.ca, you need access -- you need to log on, just as you do when you're in the lab. The most common way to do this with an FTP ("file transfer protocol") program, which allows you to get files from and, more important, to put them in, your Web folder.

If you are already using a stand-alone FTP program, you are all set. Otherwise, here are two alternative methods that work well.

METHOD 1:

Using whatever browser you usually use, go to this site: https://stuzen.stu.ca/netstorage.

You'll get a login screen. Your login ID and password are exactly as they would be in the lab -- because in fact what you're doing is logging on to your account in the lab and on the STU people server.

You'll then get a screen that has two parts: a list of folders on the left and something called Location: /NetStorage on the left. They both show the same thing, but you work with them differently, and some of what you should do is simply try things and see what happens. Here are the two things you need to know first.

  1. Clicking on the + box to the left of the folder name in the left window will open up all the folders inside that top folder, or drive; if you click on the + next to your DriveF@gwxyz you'll get a list of all the folders in your F:\ drive, and, in the right-hand screen, a list of all the folders and all the files.
  2. when you've done that, clicking on the + box next to your public_html folder will give you a similar list, and then clicking on the one next to your course folder will do the same thing. Now you should have a list of all the folders for your course web site.
Now, how do you modify a file? You need to download it to your computer.  For this, you use the "File" item just under the Location: /NetStorage/DriveF@gwxyz heading. First, click in the box next to the file you want to download and work on, then click the "File" item in the menu; then click "Download" in the pulldown menu. Choose "save it to disk" and navigate to where you want to save it on your local computer (you really should establish a folder on your computer with the same name as your course folder, so that you can keep a local copy of your web files).

When the file's saved on your computer, edit it and save it (make sure it's an HTML file and that it has exactly the same filename you started with). (I recommend editing it with Mozilla, but WordPerfect or Microsoft Word will do the job, as long as you remember that you need to be careful that the file is saved or published as a Web page or HTML file, and that the filename is exactly what it was).

Now, you need to put it back on your web site -- or, if it's a file you've just created, you need to put on the server in the first place. (To do this, you may need to fix your Browser so that it doesn't block "popups" on this site. If you do need to do that, when you try to upload a file you'll get a note telling you so -- it will say "This feature requires that you disable the popup blocker for the site stuzen.stu.ca." This isn't hard to do, and you only need to do it once, but it varies from one browser to another. See below.)

Once you've done that (if necessary), you need to go back to the "File" icon in the NetStorage window, click on it, and then click on "Upload." You'll get a window saying "Upload File" with a slot for the file and a "Browse" button next to it. Navigate to the file you want to upload, click it, click "Open" (don't ask why they use that word when you're not opening the file), and then "Upload."

Bingo.

If this works for you, you will probably want to bookmark that site (or add it to your favourites) -- https://stuzen.stu.ca/netstorage -- so that you don't have to remember it.

Allowing popups on the netstorage site

Internet Explorer: When a popup is blocked (when you click on "upload"), a line appears at the top of your screen which asks you to click it for options; you can then tell it to allow popups from this site.
Firefox: When a popup is blocked, a line appears at the top of your screen, with an "options" button at the right. You can click to allow popups from this site.
Mozilla: While on the site, go to the Tools menu, then choose Popup manager, and then Allow Popups from this site. You need to click Add, then OK.

METHOD 2:

If your computer's operating system is Windows XP, the easiest way to work from home is to add your space on the STU server to "My Network Places."
  1. From the "Start" menu, select "My Network Places"
  2. Click on "Add a network place". A "wizard will work you through the process.
  3. Select the option "Choose another network location"
  4. Answer "What is the address of this network place?" with exactly this: ftp://people.stu.ca/ 
  5. Uncheck the "log on anonymously" box
  6. User name must be your logon ID, in exactly this form, including a leading dot: .gwxyz.student.stu
  7. Type a name for this network place -- for instance, STU server
  8. Complete it by clicking "Finish."
  9. The first time you log on (it'll happen automatically) you'll need to enter your password. Click the "remember the password" icon and you won't have to type it in every time.
  10. Drag the STU server icon you just created on to your Desktop.
Once you've set this up, when you click the location in the STU Server icon on your Desktop, you'll get a regular Windows file management window: you can drag files out of it, work on them, and put them back.

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