My First Web Page

So I hear you want to create your own web page in your Unix account.

But you ask "How?"

Let me help you go through creating your first web page.

Let's Do the Two-Step

Step 1

First you need to login as yourself and be at the Unix command prompt. Usually some gobbly-gook ending with a % or >.

Step 2

Type the command wwwsetup
This will create your www directory and copy a default index.html file into your web directory. Also, it will make sure the proper permissions are set on all these files.

Modifying Your `index.html`

Use your favorite editor to modify your index.html file.

Example:

cd ~/www

pico index.html

You could also use a program like Netscape Navigator Gold or Netscape Composer to edit your page, but that is beyond the scope of this tutorial.

Creating Additional Web Pages

You can use your favorite editor to create additional web pages and link them together using the anchor tag in HTML. This would be put in the page you want to link FROM (e.g. your index.html page).

<A HREF="http://www.tcnj.edu/~im/webpage.html">Click here to go to another one of my pages</A>

Your web pages should always have an extension of .html or .htm (Example: webpage.html or webpage.htm).

After creating a page and saving it, you should exit your editor and return to the Unix command prompt. To set the proper permissions on your newly created web page, type the following Unix command:

chmod a+r webpage.html