Publishing in Composer
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Publishing in Composer
  
 
What You'll Learn in this Section
  
In this section, you're going to learn how to publish your web page so that everyone in the world can see your handy work. Pay attention because this is where a lot of WIT participants struggle.
  
     
HANDOUT!

THIS SECTION OF THE COMPOSER MODULE IS AVAILABLE AS A HANDOUT. See your mentor, or click here to access the PDF (Acrobat Reader) document for printing.

If you don't have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed, click on this button to download the plug-in:

 
     
 
How to Publish Using the Publish Tool in Composer
  
 
When you are ready to publish your page, you must first save your work to a folder on your computer. Refer back to the section on Saving if you need help with this.
  
  1. Click on the Publish button on the toolbar. A window should appear that looks like this.  
  2. Type the title of your page in the field next to "Page Title." Since I'm publishing the Home Page for my generic classroom, I'm going to give name my page "Mrs. Jones' 5th Grade Classroom - Home Page."  
 
 
  When you are browsing on the Internet, the title of your page appears at the top of the browser like this.  
  3. Next, type file name of your page in the field next to "HTML Filename." Huh? This is the name you gave to your page when you saved it.  
 
 
 

Type your filename and end it with ".htm" (you can also use ".html"). Either will do. As I mentioned earlier, HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language.

This filename will appear in the URL (or web address) for your page. I am typing in "home.htm" because this is what I saved my Home Page as.

  
 
 
  When I put the URL for this page into the web browser, I will type "http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~stuart/home.htm." Notice that "home.htm" is actually part of the URL.  
 
Now, follow the arrow to the next part so you can finish up Publishing.
 
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