How to Create Home Pages

How to Create WWW Home Pages

If you have a dial-in or telnet account with Canada Overdrive On-Line,then the following can be done to set up your home page.

Create a directory called public_html under your home directory.

cd ~
mkdir public_html
chmod a+rx public_html

The above commands will create a public_html directory where you can store your HTML and image files.

Your Home Page is in a file called index.html, and that this file is stored in the public_html directory.

You can start out your home page by copying the source from this template.

Make sure that your index.html file has world read permissions.

chmod a+r index.html

Make sure that your HOME directory has execute permissions for all (so that they can see the content of your home page), by executing the following command.

chmod a+x ~

Your URL (address of your home page) will be: http://www.cool.mb.ca/~username/
Replace "username" with your userid.
HTML refrences
A partial list of on-line references.

HTML Guides.
A beginners's guide to HTML is available from NCSA.
Once you're more familiar with HTML, a good reference is the HTML Documentation Table of Contents.
If you can get a hold of a copy of the book Managing Internet Information Services, by O'Reilly & Associates, read Chapter 19, Authoring for the Web. The HTML Overview from this chapter is now available online.