Managing Your PWP@att.net Web sites

If you're anything like us, you've signed up for additional e-mail IDs, and want to use each of them to increase your allowable Web space. We've compiled these tips to help you manage them. Some of the tips are for beginners, and some for the more advanced user. If you haven't already signed up for your additional e-mail IDs and/or personal Web space, see the following pages:

For these examples, we're going to assume that you have a total of 3 e-mail IDs, resulting in the following URLs:

http://home.att.net/~emailid
http://home.att.net/~emailid2
http://home.att.net/~emailid3

On your hard drive, set up a folder to contain your home pages. For this example, we're going to call it Home pages. Put a sub folder for each e-mail ID under this folder. Begin each e-mail ID folder with a tilde (~) if you wish to use the relative URL tip shown below. Your folder structure should look like this, with your own e-mail IDs, of course:

Categorize your pages

Separate your pages by whatever method you choose. If you already use subfolders on your site, you might move each of the subfolders to one of the other e-mail ID folders you created as shown above.

For example, if you have your current Web site set up with 2 subfolders, myfamily and yourfamily, you could assign the myfamily subfolder to emailid2 and the yourfamily subfolder to emailid3.

Others might want to categorize their pages by function, putting their HTML pages under their main e-mail ID, their graphics under a second, their sound files under a third, etc.

As an example, when you refer to a midi file moved to one of your other Web sites, you would change the reference to each of the moved files as follows:

Change:
<a href=filename.mid>My Midi</a>
To:
<a href=http://home.att.net/~emailid2/filename.mid>My Midi</a>

Use Relative URLs

When you're working on your sites with the above directory structure, you can use relative URLs. If you refer to a page in a folder that is on the same level as a page in a folder that you are working on, you can use ../ to show that you go up one level, and then the folder name that's on the same level. You'll see an explanation of this on the following pages:

Absolute vs. Relative Links

Using relative links to go from one Web site on home.att.net to another is no different than doing it from one folder to another on your own hard drive. Each of the following tips assume that you're using the folder structure shown above, including the tilde preceding the e-mail ID. Please remember to use your own e-mail IDs in place of the ones shown. Note: This tip will NOT work if you use the new vanity URLs.

If you followed the example shown above and have assigned subfolders to new e-mail IDs, you would change the reference to each of the moved pages as follows:

Change:
<a href=myfamily/filename.htm>My Family</a>
To:
<a href=../~emailid2/filename.htm>My Family</a>

and

Change:
<a href=yourfamily/filename.htm>Your Family</a>
To:
<a href=../~emailid3/filename.htm>Your Family</a>

Use Frames

If you don't want your visitors to know that they are going from one site to another, use frames to hide the actual URLs used. Have a frames page under your main e-mail ID, but have some of the actual pages under one of your other e-mail IDs. For example, in your main emailid folder, you could have a page called myfamily.htm that will point to pages on your emailid2 Web site, and another page called yourfamily.htm that points to pages on your emailid3 Web site.

The HTML for the myfamily.htm page would look like this:

<html>
<head>
<title>My Family</title>
</head>
<frameset cols="100%" rows="0,*" frameborder="no" framespacing="0" border="0">
<frame name="Frame1" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">
<frame name="Frame2" src="../~emailid2/filename.htm" scrolling="yes">
<noframes>
<body>
</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>

When you use frames, remember to set a target for all pages that you don't want to open within the frame. There are a couple of ways to do this:

If the majority of links should remain within the frame, put a target on all of the tags that should open to a full page. For this example, we are linking back to the main e-mail id, using relative URLs:
<a href=../~emailid/index.htm target="_top">Home</a>
If the majority of links are to pages that you want to open to a full page, put the following just above the </head> tag:

Then, for all of the links that should open within the frame, you would put a target as follows:

For more information on using frames, see the following:

An Introduction to Netscape Frames

Uploading

Upload each folder to the assigned Web site. For example, you should upload the emailid folder using your main account, the emailid2 folder using your emailid2 subaccount, and the emailid3 folder using your emailid3 subaccount.
Note: If you use a Web editor with Web site managing capabilities such as Microsoft's Front Page, you will not be able to use its FTP capabilities to upload your sites if you have the entire folder structure shown above within a single Web. You will have to use another method to upload your files. See the Publishing your Web Pages section of the WURD Web Designer's Handbook for additional information.

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