http://eLearning.utm.

my

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

PUBLISHING YOUR WEBSITE

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jamalludin Hj. Harun

Department of Educational Multimedia
Faculty of Education, UTM

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

INTRODUCTION

™One of the most common questions we receive

from beginning webmasters is "How do I get my
Web site on the Internet?“

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

WEB HOSTING

™Many different options out there.

™What do you need ???

™Questions to ask before you choose Web Host..??

™H
™How to choose
h aWWebbHHost??
??
ƒ Free ??
ƒ Commercial ??

1
 http://eLearning.utm.my

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

FREE WEB HOST

Choosing a Free Web Host

™Advertising
™Amount of Web Space
™FTP AAccess (Fil
(File T
Transfer
f ?)
™File type and Size Limitations
™Reliability and Speed of Access
™Perl, PHP, ASP…
™Bandwidth

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

FREE WEB HOST

Free Web Host: Examples

Basic:
www.tripod.com
www geocities com
www.geocities.com
www.freeservers.com
members.freewebs.com

Advance:
www.domaindlx.com
www.brinkster.com

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

FREE WEB HOST

www.freeservers.com
Web Space: 50MB
File Transfer: File Manager

2
 http://eLearning.utm.my

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

FREE WEB HOST

www.tripod.com
Web Space: 20MB
File Transfer: File Manager

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

FREE WEB HOST

www.domaindlx.com
Web Space: 100MB
File Transfer: File Manager

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

FREE WEB HOST

www.freeservers.com
Domain name options
9

3
 http://eLearning.utm.my

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

FREE WEB HOST

www.freeservers.com
Web Hosting Packages
10

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

FREE WEB HOST

www.freeservers.com
Account Information

11

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

FREE WEB HOST

www.freewebs.com
Tools Provided 12

4
 http://eLearning.utm.my

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

FREE WEB HOST

www.freeservers.com
Free Template Examples 13

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

FREE WEB HOST

www.freeservers.com
System Management

14

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

FREE WEB HOST

LIMITATIONS

™ You get a free site and the host gets to advertise on it.
™ Storage and download amounts are an issue here too.
™ Sites that exceed their bandwidth allotments during the
monthth may gett shut
h t down
d until
til the
th nextt monthth when
h
the bandwidth counter restarts.
™ File transfer >> File Management instead of FTP
™ URL/Address –
ƒ http://www.freewebs.com/jamalharun/
ƒ http://cc.domaindlx.com/eKuliah/
ƒ http://jz2005.tripod.com

15

5
 http://eLearning.utm.my

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

COMMERCIAL WEB HOST

Choosing a Commercial Web Host

™Reliability
™Data Transfer (Traffic/Bandwidth)
™Disk space
™Technical Support
™Platform/OS

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

COMMERCIAL WEB HOST

Choosing a Commercial Web Host

™PHP, ASP, CGI, MySQL FTP, Telnet

™SSL (Secure server)
™Control panel
™Domain name
™Multiple Domain Hosting, Subdomains
™Server
™Price

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

COMMERCIAL WEB HOST

Example;

www.articulate-x.com

18

6
 http://eLearning.utm.my

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

COMMERCIAL WEB HOST

Example:

internet-webhosting.com

19

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

COMMERCIAL WEB HOST

Example:

internet-webhosting.com

2007

20

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

COMMERCIAL WEB HOST

Example:

internet-webhosting.com

2010

21

7
 http://eLearning.utm.my

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

COMMERCIAL WEB HOST

22

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

COMMERCIAL WEB HOST

23

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

COMMERCIAL WEB HOST

24

8
 http://eLearning.utm.my

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

COMMERCIAL WEB HOST

Available Web Applications

25

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

COMMERCIAL WEB HOST

Available Web Applications

26

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

COMMERCIAL WEB HOST

Available Web Applications

27

9
 http://eLearning.utm.my

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

COMMERCIAL WEB HOST

System Management
28

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

FILE TRANSFER

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

TRANSFER FILES TO SERVER

www.freeservers.com
File Manager

10
 http://eLearning.utm.my

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

TRANSFER FILES TO SERVER

www.domaindlx.com
File Manager

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

TRANSFER FILES TO SERVER

www.tripod.com
File Manager

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

TRANSFER FILES TO SERVER

Actual file OR zip file

11
 http://eLearning.utm.my

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

TRANSFER FILES TO SERVER

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

34

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

TRANSFER FILES TO SERVER

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

mpt1393: WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT

TRANSFER FILES TO SERVER

™File Manager vs FTP ?

™Commercial Web Host: Both File Manager & FTP

™Free Web Host: Only File Manager

™Limitations of File Manager (Free) – Total Files

that can be uploaded at 1 go…and also total
amount of all the files in a single upload session
(cannot exceed xx MB)

12
 http://eLearning.utm.my

www.jz--media.com
www.jz

13