Welcome to your SureWest personal web space tutorial.  This page will guide you thru publishing your site.

General Notes
Creating Your Web Site
Publishing (Uploading/Copying) Your Web Site
Viewing Your Site

Notes About Your Personal Web Space:

• You can build your web site with any HTML editor.  Examples of editors are:  MS FrontPage, Adobe GoLive, HTML wiz or EZPad.
• Client side scripting (programming) is permitted.  Microsoft FrontPage extensions are not running on our servers.
• The first/start page of you web site must named "index.html" or "index.htm".
• Copying your files to your web site is done via FTP to ftp.kc.surewest.net or ftp.everestkc.net.
• View your web site at http://home.kc.surewest.net/<username>  or http://home.everestkc.net/<username>  Example:  http://home.kc.surewest.net/jdoe123

Creating Your Web Site:

As mentioned above you can use any editor to create web pages.  There are many good references on the Internet about HTML or web page design.  One good place to start is the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) athttp://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide. These are the people who are helping develop the standards for communicating and working over the Internet.

As you create your first page to publish be sure to name it "index.htm" or "index.html".   Otherwise the web server will not know where to start when displaying your site to visitors.

Sample Page
Contents Of Index.htm	Index.htm Viewed In Internet Explorer

Publishing Your Site:

This is the process of getting your files onto the web server.  To get your files to the web server you must FTP (file transfer protocol) them.  This can be accomplished many ways:  ftp (at the command prompt), Internet Explorer, MS FrontPage or any FTP program like WS_FTP. 

Using FTP at the command prompt:

When opening a connection to your surewest ftp site. If your email address ends in kc.surewest.net, please use ftp.kc.surewest.net. If your email address ends in everestkc.net, please use ftp.everestkc.net. As most of the examples show both of the addresses. Please use the one that corresponds to your email address.
Sample Publish	Steps To Publish
C:HTML FILES>ftp ftp> open ftp.kc.surewest.net or ftp.everestkc.net Connected to ftp.kc.surewest.net or ftp.everestkc.net. User (ftp.kc.surewest.net:(none)): jdoe123 331 Password required for jdoe123. Password: 230 User jdoe123 logged in. ftp> bin 200 Type set to I. ftp> put index.html 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for index.html. 226 Transfer complete. ftp: 186 bytes sent in 0.00Seconds 186000.00Kbytes/sec. ftp> put world.gif 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for world.gif. 226 Transfer complete. ftp: 76307 bytes sent in 0.05Seconds 1623.55Kbytes/sec. ftp> quit 221 Goodbye.	Go to a command prompt (DOS) Change directory to where your web files are stored. Type ftp Type your username (first part of email address) Type your password (same as email) Type bin  (this is short for binary, if you are copying pictures this is required) Type put <filename1>   (repeat until all files are copied) Type put <filename2>   (repeat until all files are copied) Type quit Close command prompt window.

Using Internet Explorer:

First step you need verify "Enable folder view for FTP sites" is enabled.

1. Open Internet Explorer (These steps are based on Internet Explorer version 6).
2. From Tools menu select Internet Options. (Figure A)
3. Select Advanced Tab.
4. Scroll down and Enable "Enable folder view for FTP sites" (Figure B)
5. Click on OK.

Now to Publish:

1. In the address bar of Internet Explorer type:  ftp.kc.surewest.net or ftp.everestkc.net
2. A window asking for your username and password will appear. 
   (Your username is the first part of your email address before the "@".)
3. Drag and drop your files to this window.
4. Be sure to copy all the files required on the web page.  Picture files are often forgotten.

Figure A	Figure B

       

Using Microsoft FrontPage:

1. Open FrontPage.
2. Open your web site folder.
3. From the File menu select Publish Web...
4. Enter publish destination:  This can be either ftp.everestkc.net (Figure1) or ftp.kc.surewest.net
5. Enter your username & password (Figure 2)
6. If this is your first publish you will get a warning about do you want FrontPage to create a web here.  Select OK.
7. Select Publish (Figure 3)
8. You should see an informational windows while your files are copied.  (Figure 4)
9. Select "Done" when copying is complete.

Figure 1	Figure 2
Figure 3	Figure 4

  

 

Viewing Your Site:

Ah the easy part!  Using any Internet Browser (MS Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla) type in the addresshttp://home.kc.surewest.net/jdoe123, however replace jdoe123 with your username.  Your username is the first part of your email address:  jdoe123@kc.surewest.net.

If you get an error:

• "This user has not setup their page yet" - you need to try copying your files to the web server again.
• "Page can not be displayed" - check to see if you are typing in the web address correctly.  You do not need to type "index.html" after the address.
• Wrong page keeps being displayed - if you started a new main page be sure you are using the same file name as before:  index.htm or index.html.  If you have both files out there the file ".html" will display.