Accessing Your Web on Phoenix

Tom Kelliher, CS 102

March 30, 2001

Introduction

When designing your personal web site, you have two alternatives in where the site is stored. Either approach is acceptable to me. The first alternative is to create the site within a folder on your G: drive. From there you publish the site to phoenix. Open the web site on your G: drive and then refer pp. 418--421 in the FrontPage book for publishing instructions. The URL (location) of your web on phoenix will be http://phoenix.goucher.edu/~username/ (where username is your username from the phoenix FrontPage account slip you received). The advantage of this approach is that the world doesn't see your web site until you've published it to phoenix.

The second alternative is to create your web site directly on phoenix. See the next section for instructions on opening your web on phoenix. The advantage of this approach is that you don't have to go through the work of publishing your web site --- it's always published. If you create your site this way, you won't be able to save images from other web sites directly into your own web site. What you'll need to do is to right-click on the image, as usual, save it into a folder on your G: drive and then import it into your web site.

Either way, the entry page to your web site must have the file name index.htm. To view your web on phoenix in Internet Explorer or Netscape, just enter your URL into the browser.

Opening Your Web on Phoenix

1. Start FrontPage.

2. Open the File menu and choose Open Web....

3. An Open Web dialog box pops up. In the Folder name field, enter the URL of your web site: http://phoenix.goucher.edu/~username/ (where username is your username from the phoenix FrontPage account slip you received). After you've opened your web the first time, you'll see a shortcut to your Web folder in the dialog box. You can open the shortcut, rather than type in the URL.

4. Click the Open button.

5. An Enter Network Password dialog box opens. Enter your username and password from your FrontPage account slip. (The password is case sensitive).

6. Back in the Open Web dialog box, click the Open button. Your web on phoenix should now be open. You can begin creating web pages.

Changing Your FrontPage Password

This is a good thing to do so that you don't have too many passwords to keep track of. I suggest changing it to your Goucher network password, assuming that is a good, secure password. If it's not a good, secure password, I suggest you change them both to a secure password. If you're not sure what a ``secure'' password is, see Choosing a Good Password
(http://phoenix.goucher.edu/password.shtml).

1. Open your FrontPage web on phoenix.

2. From the Tools menu, choose Security.

3. Choose Change Password. (If it isn't visible, allow your mouse cursor to hover over the pair of down-pointing arrows and it will become visible.)

4. Follow the instructions on the Change Password dialog box which pops up. You'll enter the password I assigned you once and your new password twice.