You can use Webspace not only to store your files, but also to publish a web site. For web sites, however, we want to keep our files together in the same folder. To do this, you can either place a whole folder from your desktop into Webspace using the Web folder option, or you can create a new folder in Webspace and upload all the relevant files into that folder. Next, to make a web site available on the Web, you would need to change that folder's status from "private" to "public." Below you will find instructions how to upload you web site folder into Webspace and how to make this folder public.
Upload your web site folder into Webspace
After you open Webspace and log into it, you would need to do the following:
- Click on the Web Folder Icon in the top menu. It will lauch an alternative display window of your Webspace, which would look very much like an open folder on your desktop.
- Drag you web site folder into that Webspace window.
- Close the Webspace window and go back to the traditional Webspace display in your browser. After you refresh that page, you will see the folder you just added in the list of your contents list.
If you want to work on files from your web site later, you can launch the Web folder in Webspace and drag the folder you need to your desktop. Do not be confused by the look of the Web folder window: it is a remote location so opening and editing documents from it could be a problem. Remember that to work on specific files from you web site, the safest thing to do is to drag the whole web site folder onto your desktop first and then work from there.
Publish on the Web
After you have placed your whole web site folder in Webspace, its default status will be "private." To make your web site publicly available, you will need to use the SHARE option. Next to the name of every file or folder in Webspace, you can see four icons. The SHARE icon usually looks like this 
to indicate that your file or folder is private. When you click on this SHARE icon for your web site folder, a new screen will display a table of the folder's sharing properties. You will need to do the following on that screen to make you folder public:
- Click on CHANGE under the sharing properties table.
- Say YES to every setting that appears in the editable version of the sharing properties table.
- Choose the first out of the three options under the table, which says "Apply changed settings to sub-directories and files."
- Click APPLY NOW.
- You are done. Your web site folder is now public and this icon appears next to its name:
The URL for your web site is: webspace.utexas.edu/YourUTEID/NameOfFolder/ This URL will call up the index.html file from your folder, which is actually your title page.
For example, I have an e-portfolio folder in my Webspace which I have placed in another folder called "Management," so my URL for the e-portfolio is: webspace.utexas.edu/mah5785/Management/e-portfolio/
If I had a proposal folder in my Webspace exactly like your proposal folders, the URL for it would be: webspace.utexas.edu/mah5785/proposal/