Creating, Editing & Publishing Via Web Browsers

An extremely efficient way to create and edit basic HTML documents is to use a Web browser that has an internal editor and uses the WebDAV protocol to directly publish to your WEBSPACE This permits one to

• create or open an exiting HTML document in edit mode within the browser,
• edit the document, and
• simply press the "Publish" icon to upload the document.

This is extremely useful for students, faculty and others who who would like to maintain on-line notes or scholarly documents having hyperlinked references and other value-added aspects of multimedia resources.

Both Netscape (4.7x & 7.x) and Mozilla (1.7x) browser have extensive editing features and permit direct HTTP/HTTPS publishing of newly created or modified documents. (These browsers are also available for Linux and Mac OS X.)

To modify an existing HTML document in your WEBSPACE:

• display the document in the Web browser,
• select the "File" menu,
• click on "Edit Page",
• document is displayed in browser,
• edit the document, and
• click the "Publish" icon to upload the document.

To create and publish a new HTML document:

• activate the browsers Editor"
• create the document, and 
• click the "Publish" icon to upload the document.