Department of Economics
NUI, Galway

Dr. Aidan Kane
EC213 Macroeconomics
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------ Writing web pages
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EC301 Irish Economy
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------ Projects 1999/2000
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EC223 Introduction to Mathematical Economics
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EC350 Research Project
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EC213 Macroeconomics

National University of Ireland, Galway

Semester II 1999/2000

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Posting up your web pages

These notes assume you have a number of web pages ready to post. I advise you to test this system out well before your final draft is ready.

Students in this group have been assigned accounts on the Department of Economics web server, to which your web pages may be posted. Please read the following carefully.

The folder in which your web pages will appear has the following form:

http://www.economics.nuigalway.ie/students/smithjohn/

where the last part (smithjohn) is your username

... which you will need when logging in to post your pages.

In all cases, usernames are in the form lastnamefirstname as supplied, all in lowercase, with no spaces or characters other than letters. (In some cases, a middle initial is appended to the firstname, again without any punctuation).

You should check your username by following the link to your pages on the (alphabetical listing of names):

You also need a password with which you have been supplied in class.

Given your username and password:

From this screen, you can upload files from your hard-disk/account on the PC suites, or from a floppy disk, by 'browsing' through files on same. When you've selected your web pages (up to five at a time) press the 'upload' button.

You can also delete, and rename files on your web account from this screen -- select the file(s) from the list by checking the 'radio' button and click on either 'delete' or, enter a new file name and click on 'rename', as appropriate.

Note:

  • By default, a page called index.html is already in your account. You should call the first page in your project by this name also, as the your link below goes to that page.

    (When quoting web addresses, you only need to quote

    http://www.economics.nuigalway.ie/students/smithjohn/

    and not:

    http://www.economics.nuigalway.ie/students/smithjohn/index.html

    to get to your first page, which is why the index.html file name is useful.)

  • This web server is case-sensitive i.e. page02.html is recognised as a different file from Page02.html

    So, to avoid problems in linking to files, a good practice is to only use lowercase letters when naming your pages and image files.

  • When you edit a html file on your hard disk etc. and then upload it to your web account, the previous copy of that file in your web account is overwritten i.e. there is no need to try to delete the file first in your web account.

  • You disk quota is 500KB (= 0.5 MB, about half of what one floppy disk stores). This should be more than enough for any html pages, but since images take up much more memory, you should check the size of your image files before attempting to post them. Note also that images slow up the speed at which web pages download, so be sparing in your use of them.