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The sub-webmasters of Great St Mary's

This page is advice for those maintaining web pages within particular areas of our web site.

You will have been given a directory or directories within which you can place your files. In each directory is a file called template.html which is a starting point for you to build your own pages. You can browse to get to the directory you want, add template.html to the name of the URL, and you'll be viewing your template file. Then you can save this to your local disk under the name you want for your page, and use the mechanism provided to put it into place on the server.

When you do this, you should also modify your index.html to include a link to your new page, and copy that new version of your index.html to the server.

What you will need

A computer with ``write'' access to the disk

A home or work computer should be OK for this. If you use a public access computer (e.g. in a CyberCafé or a library) you may not be able to put files on its local disk.

A reasonably modern web browser

Some fancy browser features are used by the server to suck the nominated files off your local disk onto the server. Most browsers in common use today have these features, although they may be turned off by default for security.

An HTML editor

I strongly recommend learning HTML, either from a book or from the HTML primer on the web, and editing the page as HTML. If you don't want to do this, you can use a specialist HTML editing tool such as Netscape Composer. Beware of proprietary editing tools such as Front Page -- they may produce bad HTML that only works well with the browser produced by the same company.

Policy and Guidelines

The GSM parish web site is part of the Ely diocesan web site which is an official publication of the diocese, so please don't include material that the diocese may find offensive.

I (the parish webmaster) don't really mind if your pages don't match the appearance of the rest of the web site, although on the whole I like to see consistency -- I think it makes it easier for the reader. So if you use the template.html pages that I've provided, you will get a page with similar headers, footers and navigation links to the rest of the site, so I'd rather that you use that unless you have particular reason to do otherwise.