How do I create a home page on the Web?

If you have an account on the central University UNIX system, then it is easy. It is also easy to create web pages from managed windows account (see below). If your user name is ahacker

cd
mkdir public_html
chmod a+r public_html
chmod go+x public_html
cd public_html
ue index.html
chmod a+r index.html

In the example, the ue text editor is used to add some HTML text to the file. There is a lot of information about HTML available online.

The homepage URL will be http://www.liv.ac.uk/~ahacker/
The content in index.html will be displayed.

Why would you want a web page? There are several reasons.

It is a useful way of exchanging files with external collaborators. For example, graphs can be ordered on web page in a way that is hard to do with email.
It provides information about yourself to people you may only know electronically. For example, a person's web page is very useful in deciding whether to invite them to give a talk here.

Creating a web page from managed PC account

You can put web materials on the Managed Windows Service Staff Personal Content

All staff can publish personal web content from their M:drive. This is done by creating a folder public.www from the root of the user's M:drive. The base item should be named index.htm or index.html. So for a user named "testuser" for example, a url of pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~testuser would display the contents of the above file. Further files and folders can be added as required.

There is now a lot of space on the Managed Windows Service so there is plenty of space for research based web pages.

The University publishes inforation about creating web pages.

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Last modified: Wed Sep 28 15:04:51 2005