Uploading to your OLS account
Please Note: If you are an AICA-SF student, and you are having difficulty accessing your myAICampus account, you can call technical support at 1.866.642.2711 or email campus_support@aii.edu, 7 a.m. to midnight (Eastern), 7 days a week.
Uploading Your Site to the Internet through My AI Campus (https://mycampus.artinstitutes.edu/portal/server.pt?):
- Locate the Web Site link at the top of your home page once logged in.
- Once your Admin page opens, click on the File Manager link located lower middle.
- Then select the public_html page by clicking on the link
- In this folder, you will upload your home page, index.html, as the site's landing page. On index.html, you will provide links to any other web pages you want people to see. Remember the first page of any folder - but most importantly, the root folder - should be named index.html, as this is the default naming convention used by most System Administrators, like with your AI account.
- To Upload your files or to create new folders for your images, css, and anything else you want, the buttons can be found at the bottom of the same page, within the public_html folder:
Uploading using Dreamweaver (pre-2011)
- In Dreamweaver, select Site > Manage Sites, to open a new dialogue box called Manage Sites. Click on New > Site. Do not click on FTP & RDS Server.
- If your new dialogue box isn't at Advanced, but instead wants you to use the beginner's mode (Basic), click the tab for Advanced. It should look like this:
- Under the Category list, the Local Info category is selected. Under Site name, just put a name for your own information only. More importantly, under Local root folder, use the browse (the folder icon to the right of the text box) button to browse within your computer for your root folder. Remember: this is the one folder that contains everything for your web site. It may contain additional folders, but your homepage, index.html, is not in any folder.
- Again, under Category, select the next list item, Remote Info. Choose FTP from the dropdown box at Access:
- If you are a student at The Art Institute of California - San Francisco, your setting for the next dialogue box to appear will look almost exactly like below, except the Login will have your initials and number, and, since you're a student, your email address reads ex. sk374{at}stu.aii.edu:
- Remember your remote information may vary. Below is an example of Angelfire's login:
- Click OK, then click Done. You will be returned to your Site Files.
- Click the Connect button (it looks like 2 plugs) to establish your connection. You will see your Remote Files appear, usually on the left side of your screen, if you have used the expand/contract button in upper right.
- Choose the files you wish to upload (or the entire root folder if you want), and then click on the blue arrow pointing up. This puts your files to the remote server. It may take awhile so just relax and wait.
- Go to any browser, like Firefox or Internet Explorer, and type in your new URL. It will be something (for AI) like http://stu.aii.edu/~sk374. You should see your work online!
- Please Note: If you are working on a public computer, like at your school or the library, do not click Save for your password. Dreamweaver will ask you for your password when you are ready to used it.
- If you haven't put your Web site online before, there may be a lot of anxiety surrounding it - at least there was for me! There could be questions on the content: who will be seeing it, will it make sense, will I make a fool of myself? And there is hesitation about using FTP (File Transfer Protocol) for the very first time. Questions like What if I do it wrong? and What if I mess something up? But don't worry! It's a very easy process and when you use Dreamweaver, it is almost foolproof in its simplicity.
- When I was first learning to build web sites and upload them to the Web, I used WS_FTP. It was very efficient and easy to use. However, Dreamweaver is infinitely better. By using the Site Files, you can easily transfer the files from your local folder to the remote server at Angelfire (or wherever you site will sit.) We will go through this process in class. Just remember that your home page should be named index.html, and it must always be on the root level of your root folder.
- Just remember that this is just a class. You all are learning about applying your multimedia skills to the World Wide Web. Your next step is to develop that knowledge into something worth sharing with the world. Just get that first page up! You will always be updating and uploading your pages. No Web site stays static - they are all works in progress. Just have fun and remember...be fearless with software! Just give it a try.
~ peace, polka and piwo