NWE Help: Remote: Web Authoring

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You have several options for editing your NWE web pages from home. Here are our suggestions. Please note that the NWE does not "endorse" any of the software which appears on this page; we can make general recommendations only.

1. Use SSH to connect to the NWE, then use Pico to edit pages.

This option is good if your edits aren't very complex or if you don't want to learn many new programs (Pico is very easy, albeit simple).

Just use ssh to get a connection to the NWE, then change to your public_html directory (cd public_html) and type pico filename.html to edit any page (substitute the right filename, of course).

2. Use a text editor at home and upload your pages to the NWE using ftp.

Make your web pages with whatever text editor you like. You can use a word processor if you save the file as 'text' each time. You can preview the files in a web browser from your own computer.

Several code-based editors similar to asWe are available for download. MacOS users can try Taco, downloadable from the http://www.tacosw.com/ web site. Windows users can try Arachnophilia http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/ or CoffeeCup HTML editor http://www.coffeecup.com/editor/.

When you've got the page designed the way you want them to look, use ftp to upload the pages to the NWE. We have more help with ftp close by.

3. Use an editor from home, and upload your pages to the NWE using the editor's "Publish" function.

With a program like Macromedia Dreamweaver or Microsoft Front Page, you can edit web pages without having to know tags or HTML. Many word processors (Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, etc) also support this functionality. You can purchase this software at UF Bookstore or from other locations.

No matter which editor you use, you make the web pages you want on your home computer, and when they're ready, use the "Publish" or "Upload" function to copy them to the NWE. Or you can use FTP, as mentioned above and in our ftp help pages.

Make sure to use ftp as your connection method. We do not support the use of HTTP-PUT at the NWE. Our ftp host name is ftp.nwe.ufl.edu (more about hostnames here).