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Frequently Asked Web Account Questions
We now strongly recommend using Dreamweaver for authoring sites. Dreamweaver automatically takes care of a lot of the site management issues and problems mentioned here.
Q: Where can I find my web site?
A: Faculty sites follow the URL (uniform
resorce locator - aka: web address): http://www.roch.edu/people/username/ (where
username is your first initial last name (no spaces))
Staff sites follow the URL: http://www.roch.edu/people/username/
(where username is your first initial last name (no spaces))
See Faculty/Staff Web accounts (in the links area) for more details
Course sites follow the URL: http://www.roch.edu/course/coursename/ (where course name is the course abreviation, course number, and sometimes the section number)
Department sites follow the URL: http://www.roch.edu/dept/deptname/
Q: Why do I recieve an error when publishing to my web site from home?
A: Publishing to your web account will ONLY work from a computer on the UCR network OR from a
Q: Why are my graphics not showing up on my web page?
A: Check to see if you named the graphic with spaces in the file name. Ninety nine point nine, nine, nine percent of the time this is the case. The web server will not recognize files with spaces. (Ex: my graphic.gif - should be - mygraphic.gif) NOTE: Dreamweaver will automatically insert characters in file names with spaces to rectify this problem. Thus my beautiful graphic.jpg will be published to the web server as: my%beautiful%graphic.jpg. So why not name your files with underscores or dashes right away. (ie my_beautiful_graphic.jpg or my-beautiful-graphic.jpg)
Q: Why can't I see my "home" page?
A: Check to see if you named the file "index.html" (without quotes). The "home" page of any directory/folder out on the web should be named index.html. NOT Index.html (capital i). NOT home.html. If you do not name one of your files index.html, you will see the directory with just a list of files of the files contained therein. All other pages, that are not the "home" page can be named whatever you want.
Q: I recently published a new version of an existing page, but when I view it on the web I am not seeing the changes. What is going on?
A: First try hitting the "Reload" button
on your browser. This refreshes the page so any new changes
made
to it, since the last time you viewed it in the browser, will
be evident. If a blank, white page appears, you may need to
wait about 30 seconds, then hit refresh again. It takes approximately
30 seconds for the new page to be active on the web server.
If that doesn't
work check the name (and extension) of the file that exists
against
the
file
with
the
new updates.
If the old page is "index.html" and the new version
is "index.htm" the .html will over-ride the .htm
page.
Also, the web server is case-sensitive; meaning upper
and lowercase letters DO matter. If you unknowingly overwrite
mypage.html
with Mypage.html it will appear that the page no longer exists
on the server, and because your link referenced mypage.html
you will have broken links. It is best to just name all files
with lower case. Then pick an extension, .html or .htm and
stick
with it.