How to create a homepage on your WSUNIX account

Run the " new_www " command:

% new_www

This command will create a new directory public_html and place a new file in that directory called index.html. This file is the first file that people will see when they look at your homepage. For example, if someone calls the URL

http://www.wsu.edu/~smith/

They will get Smith's home page " public_html/index.html " file, if it exists.

Review the new file and directory.

After running new_www you are left with the file index.html file. This file is only a template which has your name and email address in it. You should first modify this file to include the personal information you want everyone to see when they run your home page.

To modify index.html which is in the public_html directory you first set your working directory to that directory:

% cd public_html

Modify the home page.

Next you edit the already existing index.html file using your favorite UNIX editor (pico, sedit, vi, emacs, etc.) For example,

% pico index.html

Verify the home page.

The next thing you will want to do is check out your new home page by pointing your browser (netscape, mosaic, lynx, etc.) to:

http://www.wsu.edu/~ your_login_id /

where your_login_id is your UNIX login id.

For Further Information

NCSA's Beginner's Guide To HTML
NCSA's Guides to Writing HTML Documents
NCSA's Image Map Tutorial

Bare Bones Guide to HTML
Churchyard's HTML Quick Reference Card
HTML Writers Guild Introduction to HTML
Library of Congress HTML Resource list.
Thomas Boutell's Frequently Asked Questions about the WWW
James "Eric" Tilton's Composing Good HTML
The Macmillan HTML Workshop
Yahoo's list of HTML Guides and Tutorials

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