Publishing a Hyperlink Essay on Your Web Site

We already learned how to use Mozilla composer to  post a personal WEB page.  Now we are going to learn how to post other "pages" on our "web site".  First, we should be clear on some terminalogy.

"Page":  On the internet the word "page" actually refers to a file, in html format, which can be opened in a browser such as Microsoft Explorer, Netscape Navigator or Mozilla Firefox.  It is called a "page" because it looks like a printed page, but it can actually be of any length.  When you print out a "page" it may generate many pages of printout. 

"Web Site":  Your web site is a file folder on your served (clam.rutgers.edu) which contains files that you choose to make available on the Internet.  The name of the file folder, for most of you, is public_html.  For a few of you who have been here a long time, it is just html.  All the graphs you wish to use on your Web Pages need to be in this folder as well.

"Home Page":  This is the first page people usually go to on your WEB Site, it is the default they get if they do not specify a file name when they go to http://clam.rutgers.edu/~yourname.   It is a file in html format with the file name index.html.  We already created a first version of these files and you can link to them from our course's photo directory page.

Your hyperlink essay will be a Web Page (a file in html format) stored on your WEB Site with a name that reflects its title.  You can call it whatever you want, e.g, DesperateHousewives  or MyEssay.   You create it in Mozilla Composer or another editor, just as you created your Home Page.  If you wrote your paper in Word, just save it in "web page format".  You publish it the same way, making sure that the file name is something other than "index".  It should include hyperlinks to at least three web sites.  It need not contain any graphics.

Once your hyperlink essay is posted, you should be able to find it in a browser by typing
http://clam.rutgers.edu/~yourname/essayname.html

Once you have done this, you need to put a hyperlink in your Home Page to link to the essay.  Just copy the essay's address from the browser as you would for any hyperlink.  Then open your Home Page in composer, add a sentence saying "here is my essay on mytopic" and insert a link.  Then republish the home page as you did before.

When you are done it should work like Fulano de Tal's home page which has a link to his essay "Growing Up in the Peanut Gallery."