Posting a Web page is necessary for viewing the page on the Internet.

All students at IU South Bend have M:\ drives. Locating it and accessing it from more than one location is covered in this tutorial. Depending on where you are when posting a page, there are different sets of instructions:

To post a file from the IU South Bend campus, click on this link: On Campus-POST.
To post a file from off campus, click on the following link: Off Campus-POST.

Posting from the IU South Bend Campus

• Double click on "My Computer". This opens a window with files and drives in it.
• Locate the "Data (M:)" drive. Double click on it.

You are now viewing the files in your "Data (M:)" drive.

• Open the html folder by double clicking on it. This folder may contain files. Do not delete the files at this time.

• Minimize the window by clicking on the dash at the top right corner of the open window.

Now the "My Documents" folder on the desktop is visible.

• Double click the "My Documents" folder to open it.
• Right click on the index.html file that was created earlier in the tutorial. A menu opens down.
• Move the pointer down the menu to "Copy", and click on "Copy".

Now go back to the minimized "Data (M:)" drive:

• Locate the windows taskbar at the bottom of the screen. The taskbar should have a minimized link called "M:\html" or something similar.
• Click on it to maximize (open) the window.

Now to paste the file to the "Data (M:)" drive.

• Place the pointer anywhere in the white part of the window and right click on it. A menu opens down.
• Move the pointer down the menu to "Paste", and click on "Paste".

An error window may open with the prompt "This folder already contains a file named 'index.html'. Would you like to replace the existing file...with this one?"

• Click on the box labeled "Yes".

• Locate the at the top right hand corner of the screen.
• Click it once to close the window.

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Posting from Off Campus

• Double click on Internet Explorer.
• Locate the address bar and type ftp://oit.iusb.edu

This opens a new window asking for your "User Name" and "Password".

• Fill in the blanks and click on the button labeled "Login".

This opens your M:\ drive folder.

• Double click on the "html" folder. This folder may contain files. Do not delete the files at this time.

• Minimize the window by clicking on the dash at the top right corner of the open window.

Now the "My Documents" folder on the desktop is visible.

• Double click the "My Documents" folder to open it.
• Right click on the index.html file that was created earlier in the tutorial. A menu opens down.
• Move the pointer down the menu to "Copy", and click on "Copy".

Now go back to the minimized "html" folder:

• Locate the windows taskbar at the bottom of the screen. The taskbar should have a minimized link called "ftp://oit.iusb.edu/-Micro..." or something similar.
• Click on it to maximize (open) the window.

Now to paste the file to the "Data (M:)" drive.

• Place the pointer anywhere in the white part of the window and right click on it. A menu opens down.
• Move the pointer down the menu to "Paste", and click on "Paste".

An error window may open with the prompt "This folder already contains a file named 'index.html'. Would you like to replace the existing file...with this one?"

• Click on the box labeled "Yes".

• Locate the at the top right hand corner of the screen.
• Click it once to close the window.

You have now completed the tutorial and have successfully posted your Web page. Congratulations!!!

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