1. First of all you need to find out if your Internet provider allows users to create homepages. Stay away from services such as America Online, Prodigy, Compuserve, etc. Get an account that allows SLIP/PPP access along with access to a telnet shell account, Email, FTP, Usenet, and WWW. Check to find out what the disk space limit is on user accounts. Also look for services that charge a flat rate for unlimited connect time.
2. Once you have an account, contact your provider's helpdesk about how to set up your directories for a public WWW homepage. I know that all systems are not set up the same, but the following steps will explain one of the most common ways.
3. In your root user directory type "mkdir public_html". This will make the main directory for you web pages. Any files you want referenced on your homepage must be in this directory or in subdirectories within this directory.
4. Set "read and list" access rights to this directory. On AFS based system the syntax is:
5. Now it's time to actually create your main homepage. Typically the homepage is a file called "index.html" which is in the main public_html directory. You can either use a text editor such as Pico within your Telnet shell to create this file, or you can use another text/html editor on your local computer and then upload it to your account. (Anytime you upload text/html files to your account using FTP, be sure to use ASCII transfer.)
6. Writing the actual HTML code for the homepage can be confusing at first, but with time it almost becomes second nature. When my friends ask how to learn HTML, I tell them to do what I do.....look at the source code from other pages. In my opinion that is the best way to learn it. Browse the web, find a page you like, and look at the source (hopefully your web browser will allow you to do that).
7. If you can't view the source with your browser, or you're just too lazy to try, you can look at a sample page's source and then see what it actually looks like.
8. Now create the other pages. Do it similar to the "index.html", but call them different filenames (keep the .html extension). Make references to these other pages in your homepage or other pages.
9. Now you've got the basics. Once you get the hang of it try other more advanced features such as CGI scripts (if you're server supports it). CGI scripts allow you to let your users interact directly with your homepage (forms, surveys, etc.).
10. Well, I hope this helps all you newbies. Creating homepages takes some time, but it's actually very easy. Just dig around a little and experiment, you'll get the hang of it.
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1. FTP with username and password
ftp://username:password@ftp.foo.net/
or
ftp://username@ftp.foo.net/ (netscape will prompt for
password)
From mernest Tue Feb 13 13:14:55 1996
To: mcdonald, hgreub, cmaier, campbell, steidl, carlough, garg, mernest
Subject: HTML Trick
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 96 13:14:52 -0500
From: "Matthew W. Ernest"
2. For CIE systems, if you type
http://www.cieem.rpi.edu/~garg
it will take you to the public_html directory inside
the user "garg" account. If you have a file called index.html
then it will read that file.
3. Scanning a picture
Scanning a picture at 72dpi should be enough for screen viewing.
Most of the monitors display 72 dots-per-inch (0.28-0.29 mm dot
pitch) and therefore anything bigger is wasteful and needless.
From garg@unix.cie.rpi.edu Tue Feb 13 01:42:07 1996
Sender: garg
Message-Id: <312032BB.64880EEB@unix.cie.rpi.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 01:42:03 -0500
From: Atul Garg Creating a Web Site the Clipper Way
fs sa ~/public_html system:anyuser rl