At IU, how do I post a PowerPoint presentation as a web page?

Note: The IU South Bend Mypage service is different from the Mypage service noted here; see IUSB's Web Publishing: Mypage.

Putting a PowerPoint presentation on your Mypage web space requires several steps. Once you have created your presentation in PowerPoint and saved it as a PowerPoint file:

1. In PowerPoint 2007, click the Office Button, and then choose Save As. In PowerPoint 2000, 2002, and 2003 (for Windows) and 2001, v.X, 2004, and 2008 (for Mac), from the File menu, choose Save as Webpage... .
   
   
2. For the file type to save the document as, select Web page (.htm, .html) .
   
   
3. Browse to the place where you would like to save the file, and then enter a filename. For example, enter: website.htm

   Note: The filename must end with .htm .

4. Click Save.
   
   
5. Use SFTP to transfer the presentation to your www directory on Mercury. You'll need to transfer the file website.htm and the website_files directory, where website is the name you gave your HTML file above. For information about transferring files with SFTP, see In SSH Secure Shell for Windows, how do I transfer files? or In Mac OS X, how do I use Cyberduck to transfer files?
   
   
6. To view the web page containing your presentation, visit a URL similar to: http://mypage.iu.edu/~username/website.htm

   Replace username with your username, and website with the name of the HTML file you saved in PowerPoint.

7. If you cannot view the web page, use SSH to connect to your account on Mercury and run the spinweb command. For instructions, see What is spinweb?

Troubleshooting

You may encounter two problems:

• If you transfer the website.htm file without the website_files directory, when you try to view the website.htm file, you will get the following error message:

  "Can't find website_files/frame.htm"

  To fix this, make sure to transfer the website_files directory to Mercury, as well as the HTML file.

• Another possible problem is that the index file (i.e., website.htm in the example above) may point to the wrong directory name. This happens if you use Windows to create your web page and the automatic resolution incorrectly capitalizes part of the directory name. For example, if you enter: http://mypage.iu.edu/~username/website.htm

  this might resolve to:

  http://mypage.iu.edu/~username/WEBSITE_files/frame.htm

  This would result in an error, because file and directory names are case sensitive on mypage.iu.edu. To avoid this problem, rename the directory on your Mercury account. To do so, use SSH to log into your account, and then at the Unix prompt, enter:

  mv ~/www/website_files ~/www/WEBSITE_files

  Replace website_files with the name you originally gave to your directory, and WEBSITE_files with the name automatic resolution is trying to access.

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