Free SmarterASP account
1. After confirming email in the 60 day free trial on SmarterASP - log into your new account with chosen name and password. When logged in – go to the Hosting Control Panel, 60 Days Free Trial. Click Try Now button.
2. After reviewing the textboxes and choosing PHP type – you will have something like this:
3. Confirm the summary presented by the site as following
Record the FTP information and click SUBMIT
4. After the account is created – walk through the Quick Introduction that will pop-up on your screen.
5. Click on Hosting Control Panel to see your temporary domain name. Go to Website Domain Manager following the on-screen hints. Your domain name should look like this:
Note that site1 is your root directory and for each week you should create a new subdirectory INSIDE this SITE1 with names like week1, week2, etc. Each subdirectory becomes your website
6. In the view of your folders find site1, click on it, and on the menu icons below your folders click new folder. Enter “week1” name for the tasks of week 1 and click CREATE. The resulting view should be like the following:
7. Click on week1, then on the icon with “+” sign and a pencil to create a test html file testing the url and the host setting correctness.
Enter in the file window something like:
<html>
Testing the link
</html>
…And give the file a name like: test1.html
The .html extension is very important here
8. Now try your new web site by copying the name of your site given to you before, adding to the url the name of the new directory (it is week1), and the name of the new html file to have something like the following:
As a result you should see a screen like the following:
This is the full path that you will specify in this course by adding to the main site address (like http://profven-001-site1.smarterasp.net) via backslash the names of all nested directories and the final file name that you want to be seen from the innermost subdirectory.
Each website is just a subdirectory in the root directory of your account (site1)
9. Upload to the week1 the HTML file that you were supposed to create and test on your local computer. Don’t forget that pictures require you to upload the actual picture files with links corresponding to the picture file name (and, possibly, the chain of subdirectories leading to it if you create special subdirectories within week1 like “pictures.” If it sounds not clear – then google on the web the material on managing files in directories, subdirectories, and web links, knowledge of which is the prerequisite for this course.
No comments:
Post a Comment