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 Instructions  Q&A About Internet |
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Instructions and advice for web hosting clients
While making a web presentation to be placed on the MediaNis server you need to take into consideration the following:
- Naming of the files – files must be named appropriately so that the links they lead to actually work. You must pay attention to capital and small letters, so that if a link leads to, say, Manual .htm, and the file name is manual.htm, or Manual.html, it will not work. In the same way, if a link leads to a picture logo.gif and the picture is named logo.GIF, the link will not work.
To be sure that you have named the files correctly, it is best to type the extensions yourself while creating them.
- Primary or index file – usually it is given a name such as index.htm or index.html. It should be created in a way that locates it one level above the primary root directory i.e. all the links lead to local files and pictures which are one level below. It means that at the beginning of the URL there is the working directory name which is usually named after the company. EXAMPLE: the firm exportco has an index file named index.html which consists of 1 picture (logo.gif) and a link to file 1 (firma.html). The links in the index.html file should look like this:
<IMG SRC="exportco/logo.gif"> i
<A HREF="exportco/firma.html">
In the same way, a link to the primary file from the file firma.html should look like this:
<A HREF="../"> or <A HREF="http://www.exportco.co.yu">
META tags – are in fact a couple of lines which you put in the header of the html source of your documents, which help some of search engines to index your web site properly. An example of how a header with META tags looks like:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> Here stands the title of the page or the web site</TITLE>
<META NAME="keywords" VALUE="here should be the keywords that are relevant to your web site or the appropriate page, and they are separated by comas">
<META NAME="description" VALUE="here is a short description of your web site, a single chapter or page">
</HEAD>
- While choosing the META tag "keywords" try to find appropriate, precise phrases. Usually phrases of 2 or 3 words have more success than single words (for example, it is better to put "bank software" than only "software"). Also, know that the majority of search engine servers are CASE SENSITIVE, so it is recommended that you type words in lower caps, except for some words or phrases that you think are recognizable when written in upper caps.
As far as the META tag "description" is concerned, we recommend that you limit the number of words to 20-25 (or 150-200 characters). Everything above that will be cut in the middle of the sentence and will not look professional.
- Presentation Update – is done through FTP (File Transfer Protocol). You can use FTP from DOS or numerous FTP programs which work under Windows. When logging on (using FTP username and password) you have the possibility to copy files, starting with your home directory.
EXAMPLE FTP from DOS with some commands explained:
- First you locate on home directory of your PC from from which you make the transfer
| C:\presentation>ftp www.medianis.net |
or: ftp 195.178.50.2 |
Connected to www.medianis.net.
220 www.medianis.net FTP server ready.
Name (www.medianis.net (none)): pera |
here you type your user_name (for the FTP account)
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331 Password required for pera.
Password: |
here you type your password (for the FTP account)
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| 230 User pera logged in. |
the password has been accepted, you are logged onto your home directory |
ftp:>bin
200 Type set to I. |
Command for binary transfer of files |
| ftp:>put test.html |
Transferring 1 file |
| ftp:>mput *.html |
Transferring multiple files |
ftp:>cd images
250 CWD command successful. |
Going over to the "images" subdirectory |
ftp:>pwd
257 "/images" is current directory |
You check if you are in the appropriate directory |
ftp:>lcd images
Local directory now: C:\presentation\images |
Going over to the "images" subdirectory on a local computer |
| ftp:>mput *.gif |
Transferring all gifs |
| ftp:>ls |
Listing of directory |
| ftp:>quit |
Ending your FTP session |
- Promoting your Web presentation – we will register your presentation (index file) to more powerful worldwide as well as local search engines. You can register a part of the presentation independently – all you need to do is to log onto the web site of a certain "search engine", click on the link "add url" and type the URL address of the page you wish to register on.
But, in order to make your Web site more popular, it is necessary to promote it in different ways: on your documents (memorandums, business cards, etc,...) add your web and e-mail address, and do the same while advertising on the media.
- CGI scripts – on the Medianis server there are CGI scripts which you can use:
- Page counter
- CGI date script
- CGI exact time script
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