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After your web page or web site has been created, you must upload it to a web server and tell students and parents the URL so they can access it. Your school may have a web site where you could upload these web pages, or you can use your own web site.
To upload these web pages to your web site, you will need to use an FTP application. Fetch is an FTP application created by Dartmouth College for the Macintosh. They offer free licenses to educational users.
You can download Fetch from:
Before using Fetch, you need to know the address to connect to (it is usually not the same as the address you use to access the web pages), your username, and your password. For example, if you're using Geocities, you would connect to ftp.geocities.com using your username and password.
When you start Fetch, you will see the new connection dialog:
Enter the host, username, and password. You may also need to enter an initial directory. Click OK. Fetch will connect to your FTP server using your username and password. You will see a list of files in your directory:
To upload the web pages, first navigate into the folder you want them in (you can create a new folder by choosing Create New Directory from the Directories menu. Then click Put Files at the bottom of the window. You will see a dialog that allows you to choose the files you want to upload:
Select all the web pages you want to upload. You can click the first one, then shift-click the last one to select them all. The Put Files dialog will appear, allowing you to choose how the files in the folder will be handled:
The default options are usually the best choice. Click OK. Fetch will now upload the web pages you selected to your web site.
You should always try accessing your grade web site using your web browser to make sure everything is exactly the way you expect. The address of your web folder should be something like:
http://www.geocities.com/dethier/grades/
You should not need to specify index.html when accessing your grades web site. If you do not specify it and you get a list of the contents of the folder instead of the login web page, you either did not upload the index.html web page, or your web server uses a different name for its default web page. You will need to rename index.html to the file name your web server uses.