Putting Excel on the Web

Assume that you have saved your Excel file into a directory on an A: disk or your C: disk.

Now to get it to the web and to view it in a browser.

Use WS_FTP
Start WS_FTP up.  If you have not before, create a new site.  Here I create one for my artsci account:

Since this is MY COMPUTER, I will save the password.  If it is not your computer, then DO NOT save the password.

Now connect:

Double click or click OK when the site is hightlighted.

Notice that I had set the defaults for the local system (c:\edisk\e104\e124s02).  On the remote system, with no defaults set, I land at my home on artsci.

public_html is the place were all web files are.  Double click on it.  On the local drive I saved the files in growth-saved-html so I double click there too.

I will make a new directory in the remote artsci system.  Click on MKDIR and make a new one.  Then double click it to open it.  Here I called it ug (for unemployment/growth).

Note in the right hand side I am in public_html and I have created the directory ug.  I double click on it

and I am ready to transfer the files.  For Word 97, Excel saves an .htm file and if you have graphs, .gif files.  They both need to be transfered.

I clicked on the  arrow to transfer the two files to the artsci account.
 


Now to view that growth.htm file on the web in Netscape or Internet Explorer.

The url of the file is:  http://artsci.wustl.edu/~bparks/ug/growth.htm  .  The web server artsci.wustl.edu sees the ~bparks and looks for a user named bparks.  Finding one, it then looks for the directory ug in bparks' public_html directory, and then the file growth.htm in the that directory.  On other systems, the default web directory might be different.  For example, on student.olin.wustl.edu it is called WWW .


Note that it is a very good idea to keep each project in a separate directory.  For example when creating this page, using Netscape Composer, I just saved everything into my e124s02 directory rather than a sub folder of that directory. I then had to hunt for the images that went along with this page.  If I had just saved it all into one directory, and that was all that directory had, I would have had an easier time putting this on the web.