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Uploading Several Pages at Once

When you're ready to make your Web site available to other Internet users, you need to upload the Web pages to a remote server. You can upload each page individually or upload all the pages in your site at once. To upload several pages at once, follow these instructions:

  1. Place all of the files in your Web site in a single folder. If you've organized the files in separate folders (such as folders for sounds, graphics, and so on), be sure to leave them in those folders: just move the whole set of folders into one "site" folder.
  2. Open Claris Home Page, if it's not already open.
  3. Choose New from the File menu, then choose Site from the submenu.
  4. Click OK in the message box.
  5. Type a name for the site definition file you are creating, then click Save. The site definition file specifies where and how you want the Web site uploaded.
  6. Specify the FTP settings for the site definition file. You'll need to get some of this information from the server administrator.
  7. Choose Save from the File menu.
  8. Click Upload Site.
  9. Enter the password for your account and click OK.

Tips

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Claris Home Page uploads pages using FTP (File Transfer Protocol), a protocol for transferring information over the Internet. Before you upload the files, make sure the remote server supports FTP.

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Individual servers may have different standards for uploading pages. Check with the server administrator to make sure your files conform to that server's standards.

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When you move all of the files to one Web site folder, remember to update any links that might have been affected by moving the files.

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You can choose to have the images on your Web pages consolidated when you create the site definition file. When Claris Home Page consolidates the images, it stores the image files in a specific location on the server and updates the image references on the Web pages to reflect the new location of the image files. This method helps ensure that the images will be displayed correctly after the Web site is uploaded.

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You can learn more about uploading your site by using the Claris Home Page online help system.


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