Personal web pages

With your Unix account, you automatically have a World-Wide-Web URL. All you need to do is to create a web page to correspond to it, and you are on the Web! For your convenience, we have installed a script that will create a starter home page for you. Simply give the command

makehomepage

and it will set up the necessary public_html directory. You can use the Nvu web page editor which is installed on the lab machines to create a home page file (which should be named index.html) and other files to create your personal web space.

Once you have done this, anyone can visit your personal web page by going to one of the following URL's:

http://www.cis.fordham.edu/~username
http://www.dsm.fordham.edu/~username

where username is your login name. The first form is for users with accounts on storm, and the second for users with accounts on erdos.

You can find some documents to get you started writing HTML at

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html

and

http://www.cc.ukans.edu/~acs/docs/other/HTML_quick.shtml