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There are various ways you can edit the content of an existing website of an organization or department. Two tools that are in use at Southwestern are NVU and Dreamweaver. NVU is an open-source application that runs on both Macs and PCs and can be downloaded from http://nvudev.com/download.php Dreamweaver is a commercial product from Adobe the runs on both Macs and PCs and the educational price is around $190 at the time of this posting.

In the world of web site creation, the term “publish” is used when you want the world to be able to view your website from a brower. When you are working on your website files, changing the content and saving your work does not necessarily mean that the changes are “on your site”. Most web site design and creation software, such as NVU and Dreamweaver, publish your web site content using a protocol called ftp and need to know the location where to publish the files. ITS has created two documents to help you setup NVU and Dreamweaver to use ftp to publish your web site files.

Site Setup in NVU

Site Setup in Dreamweaver

Accessing the Helios file server - Windows XP

Download and install FileZilla, http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

1. Open FileZilla for Windows
2. Fill in the following in the QuickConnect bar at the top:
   • Address: ftp.southwestern.edu
   • User: (your username)
   • Password: (your password)
   • Port: (leave blank)
3. Once connected, you can choose the folder you want to view or edit. The public_html folder on the remote system, for instance, contains files for your personal website, if you have one.
4. Locate the folder or files you want to transfer by changing the directory path on the local system side of the window. For example, if the files you want to transfer are located on the desktop of the local machine, you will navigate to c:/Document and Settings//Desktop.
5. Drag the file(s) or folder(s) you want to copy to/from Helios.

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Accessing the Helios file server - Mac OS X

Download and install Fetch, http://www.fetchsoftworks.com/

1. Open Fetch for Macintosh
2. Fill in the following:
   • Host: ftp.southwestern.edu
   • UserID: (your username)
     
   • Password: (your password)
3. Click OK.
4. Once connected, you can choose the folder you want to view or edit. The public_html folder on the remote system, for instance, contains files for your personal website, if you have one.
5. Drag the file(s) or folder(s) you want to copy to/from Helios.

ITS Helpdesk will be changing the way in which users FTP files into HELIOS, on June the 27th, 2005. This will affect everyone who does file transfers using a FTP program such as WS FTP95.

When you log in as normal, instead of seeing “/home/USERNAME” you will only see a forward slash “/”

Once you have logged into the “/” directory, you will see all of your HELIOS files. Your username and password will remain unchanged.

See this PDF for clarification Click to open.

If you have questions regarding this change, please contact the Southwestern University ITS HelpDesk at 7333.

Here is a list of server addresses and the processes that use them:

ftp.southwestern.edu use for publishing web pages and transferring files
pop.southwestern.edu use for checking mail
smtp.southwestern.edu use for sending mail
imap.southwestern.edu for checking mail via imap
webmail.southwestern.edu for checking mail remotely via the web
ntp.southwestern.edu network time, for syncing computer’s clock
www.southwestern.edu university webserver

If you want to setup a personal homepage you must create a folder in your home directory on the server. The following link will walk you through that process. https://www.southwestern.edu/cgi-bin/services/wwwsetup.cgi.
All web documents will be placed in the folder /public_html/. Consider this your personal web space.
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