You may have already created your
pages, if you have, great! If not, you will
need to download an editor from one of the sites listed
below. You'll
find some specific software suggestions here. Or
you may
use a simple text editor such as NotePad.
To learn more about basic html and creating Web pages,
please visit
http://www.htmliseasy.com/html_tutor/index.html
For help with basic html web site creation applicable to
RootsWeb,
try the html help
group
Another good beginning HTML site is
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/primer_1.html
You may want to try out RootsWeb's
Online Editor and File Manager
for FreePages users.
For more information on the Freepages Online Editor and File Manager,
you can
view the
documentation. WebTV users must use File Manager or
a similar program to create and transload pages to
their Freepages account.
There are a few things you need to know before you
upload your pages...
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Your first (home) page should be called index.htm(l)
That is the first page visitors will see when they go to your
URL
(http://freepages.xxxxx.rootsweb.com/~acctname/)
where xxxxx=community name
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Your Freepages pages can not include business advertisements for your
business or company,
and RootsWeb asks they be respectable, i.e. suitable for family viewing.
- If you have any questions
concerning Freepages policy, HTML, or FTP (uploading), please
post
your questions on the FreePages-Help
mailing list
You were automatically subscribed when your
Freepages account was created. If you have
unsubbed, follow the instructions
here to resubscribe.
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You can use programs like Netscape Gold
or Microsoft FrontPage to build your pages, but you
will not be able to use any of the FrontPage extensions.
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You must upload your pages
via FTP (Explained Below).
Uploading
your pages to your
directory on the Freepages Web Server:
The example below uses WS_FTP, but you can use any FTP
program such
as
CuteFTP. See RootsWeb
Wizards - FTP - How to Upload Files to RootsWeb for more
examples.
Please note! You will need to substitute the hostname
"users.freepages.rootsweb.com"
in the examples you find at Wizards.
You may download a copy of WS_FTP from Ipswitch
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Connect to the Internet.
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Start your WS_FTP Program.
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Create a New Session
Profile Called: My FreePages
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In the Host Field,
enter: users.freepages.rootsweb.com
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Host Type should be set to
"Automatic detect"
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In the UserId
Field, enter
the userid that was provided in your account info
that was emailed to you
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In the Password Field,
enter the password that was provided (copy and paste
assures an exact match)
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Click OK
Now
that you're
connected to the server, double-click on the folder
named
"xxxxx_html" where "xxxxx" is replaced with the community that you want
your
pages in. For example, if you have genealogy pages, you will
double-click on
"genealogy_html" and upload your pages into that directory. If you have
local history pages, you will upload your pages into the
"history_html" directory
and so
on. You upload by highlighting the file that you want copied on the
left side of
your screen (local files on your computer) and then click the arrow
that points to the
right
(the Freepages server).
Other
problems that
may come up:
-
If you use CAPITAL letters
in your names, you must be consistent. Pages named
"index.html", "Index.html", "INDEX.html", and "INDEX.HTML" are all
different
pages on the web.
-
Long file names may also cause a
problem, especially for GIFs and JPGs. You may NOT
use spaces or special characters in your file names. If you are getting
a
"Permission
denied" message when you try to upload, it is most likely because the
file name
contains spaces or some other forbidden character or is too long.
-
If your program tells you
that access is denied, please do not assume that the
password is wrong. It can also mean that you have made a typographical
error
in the hostname OR the password. We have tried to eliminate the small
letter
"l" and the capital letter "I" because of the confusion it causes. We
find
99.9% of time that the problem is NOT the password.
To
learn
more about using
WS_FTP, please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/ws_ftp/tutorials/tours/index.htm
Your
Web
address will be:
http://freepages.xxxxx.rootsweb.com/~****/
**** is your userid ( account
name ) and xxxxx
is the community that you
selected for uploading your pages.
Based on the original © 1998-2002, Betsy Mills
Modified to update URLs by Pat Asher, Jul 2008
Published here with permission.
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