Webpage Creation

The best way to start is to read a few tutorials in HTML. Some of the best ones I have found are at [http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/authoring/html_basics/ Webmonkey] but you can also visit the W3C's [http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/#tutorials tutorials] if you want to get things really right. Don't forget there's also a section in TFM on creating Web pages, so go check it out.

Create a directory public_html in your home directory and ensure everyone else can access it with the following Unix commands:

<code>mkdir ~/public_html

chmod 755 ~/public_html

chmod o+x ~</code>

Create the file index.html unless you want the web server to generate an index of your files every time your directory is accessed.

Make sure you make your file world-readable with:

<code>chmod a+r index.html</code>

Remember any other files you want other people to see should also be world-readable.


Test your new "home page" from within a Web browser (such as [http://mozilla.org/ Mozilla], [http://microsoft.com/windows/ie/ Internet Explorer], [http://apple.com/safari Safari], [http://lynx.browser.org/ lynx], [http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/ links], [http://w3m.sourceforge.net/ w3m], etc.) by opening the following URL:

<code>http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~username</code>

where ''username'' is your own login name.



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When updating this page in May of 2003, I discovered a piece of Web history was being kept here, and as the links all still work, I have left it below.
-- Catie Flick, May 2003. 
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'''1''': Read the NCSA primers [http://www.socs.uts.EDU.AU/MosaicDocs-old/html-primer.html `A Beginner's Guide to HTML'] and [http://www.it.uts.EDU.AU/MosaicDocs-old/url-primer.html `A Beginner's Guide to URLs'].

You might also like to read the CERN [http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/Overview.html `HTML Style Guide']

Better yet, why not read the chapters on creating a web page in TFM vol II (you did get your copy didn't you?)


'''2''':  Create a directory public_html in your home directory and ensure everyone else can access it with the following Unix commands:

<code>mkdir ~/public_html

chmod 755 ~/public_html

chmod o+x ~ </code>

( actually, these are csh commands, if you're using a different shell, you're expected to understand the above and do it your way. )


'''3''': Make sure the web server is able to access your home directory:

<code>chmod 755 ~</code>

'''4''': Change to this directory and start creating the HTML pages you want to be made available. The Unix command to change into this directory is:

<code>cd ~/public_html</code>

'''5''': Create the file index.html unless you want the web server to generate an index of your files everytime your directory is accessed.
Make sure you make your file world-readable with:

<code>chmod a+r index.html</code>

Remember any other files you want other people to see should also be world-readable.

A very minimal possibility for this file's contents is included below, the primers listed in the first step should be consulted for more information.

<pre><HTML><HEAD><TITLE>

The Title of this Page

</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>

The body of this page, marked up in 

<A HREF="http://www.socs.uts.EDU.AU/MosaicDocs-old/html-primer.html">HTML</A><P>

</BODY></HTML></pre>

'''6''':  Test your new `home page' from within Mosaic (or another Web browser) by opening the following URL (Within Mosaic, select Open URL... from the File menu)

<code>http://progsoc.org/~username</code>

where username is your own login name.

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