Installation
The CodeTasty web application is a text-editing and file management application that runs right in the Chrome browser. It provides editing in most computer programming languages, secure connections to web servers, and .zip file backup.
CodeTasty is free for one web account, which will be your ONID or ENGR web account. If you want to set up more hosting servers, then you may purchase the premium application. CodeTasty will allow you to work on files remotely on your server then back them up to your hard drive using Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP). CodeTasty provides editing of various programming languages, which for the purposes of this course, is HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP.
In a previous lesson, you were instructed to launch CodeTasty from the Chrome browser. If you already own Dreamweaver on the computer you’ll use for class, then don’t install CodeTasty; you won’t need it. Instead, set up Dreamweaver.
- Define a userID and and strong password.
- Click the Workspaces menu on the top left then choose Add a new workspace + link. Name the workspace “ONID”.
- Choose SSH. This means you’ll connect with a secure shell file transfer protocol.
- In the Connection section, type the correct values:
- Name of this connection: ONID
- Authentication type: Password.
- Host domain address: shell.onid.oregonstate.edu
- Username: Your ONID user name.
- Password: Your ONID password.
- Initial directory/path: public_html
- Click the Save button.
- Change the theme.
From the Preferences → User → General menu, select a new Theme and color scheme if you don’t like white text on a dark background. If you like black on white, then choose the white theme and color scheme. - Backup. CodeTasty lets us create folders and files directly on our ONID servers and transfer (copy/backup) to our local hard drives for safe keeping. Right-click → Download to a .zip archive. If you are using Dreamweaver, then you’ll create files on the local hard drive first then transfer/copy them to the server. Always maintain two copies…one on the server and at least one on the hard drive.
- Set up Screens so that you have room to edit and view your live page without flipping to another screen.
