Publishing Your Work using Fetch

Everyone needs to publish their work on the web. We start the class by making sure that everyone can, using Fetch.

The server space is a lot like your desktop, only instead of folders, they are called directories. These servers are usually run by computers running Linux. These operating systems do not tolerate spaces, and lower case letters and capitalized letters (a and A) are two different letters. As long as you follow those rules, you should have no problem uploading files to your web space.

You can drag and drop between the Finder window and Fetch, and the document icon in Textwranger can also be dragged into fetch. Know that when you drag the same document into Fetch, the document will be overwritten without warning.

If you need more help, visit the Fetch help pages

Writing Code using TextWrangler

TextWranger is a free program that will serve as our text editor. There are a number of useful features that will make your life easier, including coloring the code so you know that you are doing it right, search and replace over multiple documents, show line numbers, invisibles, etc. If you need more help, download the TextWrangler Documentation PDF.

The most important features that you need to be aware of is that by clicking on the document icon, you go to it in the finder. You can use that icon to drag the file into the browser or into Fetch as well. The pencil locks the document, if you do not want to make any changes to one or another document (useful if you are comparing one document to another and get confused). The pop-up list shown as a box with the T has a number of useful preferences, including Soft Wrap Text and Show Line Numbers. At the bottom of the toolbar is a pop-up list that has the open documents in it, and next to that is a pop-up list that shows major tags and comments. This is one way to easily get around a long document, provided that you comment your work. Another useful feature for long documents is the ability to split the document window into two views, which you do by click and dragging the small grey rectangle right above the scroll bar.