Personal
Homepage Production Guide
After
being astonished by lots of beautiful
personal homepages, why not contruct your
own one ?
This guide provides a brief on simple
concepts and teaches you how to produce
your own homepage. It is much easier than
you think !!
Creating
the Homepage Directory
All
homepage files should be placed under
your home directory's public_html
sub-directory. The public_html
directory will be automatically created
when your account is opened. In case,
you have to follow these steps to
create the directory if you don't
have one.
1. Use shell login to NETfront (telnet
telnet.netfront.net) either throught
Telnet or Ewan.
2. Type the following Unix commands
at the Unix prompt
¡@¡@cd ~ (go to your default
home directory)
¡@¡@mkdir public_html (create
directory public_html)
public_html directory created
now.
Changing
the Mode of Homepage Directory
This
part is important. You need to change
your directories' modes so that your
hompage can be viewed by others.
1.
Use shell login to NETfront (telnet
telnet.netfront.net) either throught
Telnet or Ewan.
2. Type the following Unix commands
at the Unix prompt
¡@¡@chmod a+x ~ (make home
directory accessible by public)
¡@¡@chmod a+rx public_html
(make directory accessible by public)
3. Type logout to Logout
Using
Netscape Gold to Creating your Homepage
There
are many WYSIWYG HTML editors available
(e.g. Frontpage 97, Netscape Gold,
Hotdog ...). The latest version of
Netscape Gold (Version 2.02 or above
recommended) has build-in HTML editing
and publishing functions. This section
teaches you how to create a homepage
with Netscape Gold.
1. Select from menu 'File', 'New Document',
and 'Blank'.
2. A blank editing screen with menus
and tool buttons will appear. The
editor is just as user friendly as
any popular editor. You can type your
texts, do any formatting, add URL
links, add pictures if you want. Try
it yourself
3.
After editing the homepage, save your
homepage by selecting from menu 'File',
'Save As' and the following screen
will be shown up. You can type in
the filename you like but remember
that the first page of you web site
should be named as "index.html".
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Uploading
your Homepage to NETfront Server
After
saving your work, there remains
the last and simplest step :
Put them to the NETfront server
!!
1. From Netscape's editor menu,
select 'File', 'Publish'. You
will see the screen as belows.
2. Suppose your login name is
username, then type
username in the
'User name' box, and type your
own password in 'Password' box.
3. Type ftp://ftp.netfront.net/home/username/public_html
in the 'Location' box
4. Click on 'OK' button
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Netscape
will show a success message
after uploading the homepage.
You can use other ftp tools
to upload the homepage files
to the same directory described.
How
to view my homepage at NETfront?
Suppose
your username is cmchan.
To read your homepage, you should
first instruct your Web Browser
to retrive the page from location
http://www.netfront.net/~cmchan/.
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Further
Readings
This
section is for those who want
to know more about the underlying
details of HTML, or those who
find their homepage too boring
and want to add things like
animations.
- World
Wide Web FAQ - A must
for Web beginners. From browsers
and servers to relatively
new things such as VRML and
Java, there are answers from
this popular FAQ.
- A
Beginner's Guide to HTML
- For those who want to know
about the details of HTML.
A well-organised handbook
which guides you step-by-step
to become a proficient HTML
writer.
- Patrick
Wun's WWW Tutorials -
Our great friend Patrick Wun
has summarised the essence
of homepage creation and decoration
in a few words. Take a look
!!
- HTML
Guides and Tutorials -
Materials for HTML writing
- HTML
Editors - Many decent
HTML editors are listed here
- Animated
GIFs - If you want to
put some animated graphics
to your homepage.
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