Vermont Educational Telecommunications Consortium

Open Your Page in a Browser

You have created your web page using a text editor, word processor or HTML editor (or any combination of the three). How you open it depends on your browser and where the file is.

Choose option 1 or 2, depending on where you are in the cycle:

1) If you have just created the file and it is saved on your computer's hard drive:

In your browser, look for an option under the File menu item that says something like "Open File" or "Open Local File" or "Open File in Browser." You will then be presented with the usual dialog box that allows you to find and select a file on your comput er. (If you are not familiar with navigating through files and folders on your system, go back and read the section on Files & Folders.

If you are using lynx as your browser you will not be able to use it to open a file that is still on your hard drive. You must first move the file to the server.

Now, go to the next step in the Web Publishing Cycle or use the buttons below.

2) If you have been through the cycle already, that is, you have created the file, viewed it locally as described above, and have moved it to the host:

In your browser, look for an "Open" button, or look for an option under the "File" menu that says "Open Location" or "Open URL", or you can click in the "Location:" bar and type in the URL (Uniform Resource Locator--the address) of your file. What is the URL for your file? If you are using the VETC server, the address would be http://www.vetc.vsc.edu/, then your account name, a slash (/), and then the file name. For example, if I have created a file named flowers.html and moved it to my directory on the sever, its URL would be:
http://www.vetc.vsc.edu/hag/flowers.html

Now, go to the next step in the Web Publishing Cycle or use the buttons below.

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Updated by: Hope Greenberg
July 10, 1996.