Web Resume Project

Link Those Web Page Elements

Make it simple to upload your web resume to a web server and do the following:

  1. Create a directory or folder on your computer's hard drive or use a floppy disk.
  2. Place all your graphics files in this directory or on the floppy disk.
  3. Open the HTML editor to a blank page and immediately save the page to the directory or floppy disk as index.htm for the filename (this is a universally used default filename for the first page of a web site).
  4. Create your main web page in the index.htm file.
  5. When you insert graphics stored in the same directory or floppy disk as your web page, the graphics will automatically have a relative link.
  6. If you create multiple web pages, name and save the blank pages first to the directory or floppy disk. If you follow the old eight character rule (no spaces) for filenames followed by .htm, you'll never go wrong with any web server. Any time you hyperlink to these additional web pages, the link will automatically be relative.
  7. When your web résumé is completed, including checking everything from grammar and spelling to operation within a browser, it's a simple matter to upload all the files in your directory or on your floppy disk to the web server.

The mistake most people make is having absolute links to graphics or other web pages; the absolute links point to a drive and directory on their local hard drives. When people try to view the web page, they obviously cannot link to your computer, and they'll get an error message. You can avoid this problem if you follow the steps we've outlined in this article.

If your web server provides you with an FTP account (File Transfer Protocol), it is easy to upload your files with an FTP utility program such as EliteFTP (it's shareware and can be downloaded from http://www.simtel.net). Although most HTML editors offer the capability to publish directly to the web server, FrontPage is notorious for uploading a lot of completely extraneous files, taking up at least twice the server space actually needed (about ten times the server space if you use themes).

 

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