CreatingWWWDir

Instruction for Establishing
a Personal Home Page Directory,
to have a WWW Visible Presence on http://www.gac.edu/~[your in-house e-mail address Here].
My URL, e.g., is : http://www.gac.edu/~cpb/. 1. Make a Home Page for yourself and call it: "index.html" [sans ". . .", please].
You should use a text editor, like Teach/SimpleText (not Word); a rather powerful and easy HTML editor is the shareware product PageSpinner

Minimal requirement:

a) Create a new document and "tag" it as follows:

<html>
<head><title>[put here something like My Home Page]</title>
</head>

The second part of a web page, which will accommodate the contents of the document, is called the "body" and begins and ends with the appropriate pair of tags; its opening tag may have attributes which specify background color, text color, and colors for the various kinds of links, for example:

<body bgcolor="#ffffff"> [the six x f=a white background]

Following it, place whatever text/information you wish to appear to viewers of the document; this is meant to be the matrix/shell you may wish to modify later.If you don't put anything there, you won't be able to determine that everything is working as it should!

Add the tag at the end of every paragraph.
Complete the shell page with </body> </html>.

b) save your document as "index.html"

Congratulations, you have just completed writing your first Web Page. You may have noticed that html-tagging usually (=almost always) is done in pairs, one tag at the beginning, a second one at the end of text that is supposed to assume certain characteristics.
F.Y.I.: the tagging pairs for

Centering text or graphics are: <center> and </center>
For Boldface--there are 2 possibilities , though the first solutions is preferred because it displays faster: and ; and
For Italics (2 options): and [displays faster]; and
You can insert white space by using a single:
You can specify a paragraph break by using a single:
A horizontal line (rule) is tagged with a single : <hr>
An image, that you stored in your "www-docs folder" (see below) receives a single : <img src="[title of your .GIF- or .JPG-suffixed graphic]">.
Illustration: <img src="EnglDep.gif">: works if such a file resides in your "www-docs" folder; if it is stored it elsewhere on "www.gac.edu", you'll need a longer URL: e.g.:<img src="http://www.gac.edu/~cpb/home.gif" would load the picture of a house from my web account into your document making it a part of your page.

'Nuff, for the introduction!

2. Making your efforts visible to the world
requires a somewhat more challenging series of operations, unless you are sitting in front of a Macintosh that is directly connected to the Gustavus intranet. If you are, do the following: Select the Chooser from the AppleMenu. Select Appleshare, GACnet, and Home directories in the dialog window that opens, before clicking OK. In the next dialog window, make sure the Registered User radio button is selected, before entering your User Name and Secret Password in the appropriate boxes and clicking OK. When your UNIX account mounts on the desktop, open it and look for a folder named "www-docs". If there is no such folder, select "New Folder" from the File Menu. Rename the "untitled folder" "www-docs" (always sans the " . . .", please. With the closed www-docs folder highlighted, select Sharing . . . from the File Menu. Set up the sharing privileges (accesss) by clicking in the boxes which are checked in the graphic, before going to Item g) below :

Because the "www-docs" folder you have just made world-readable resides inside you account folder, it , too, needs to be given the same kinds of access privileges, or it will be a barrier between your labors and all potential viewers. So, select your account folder before opening its associated sharing dialog box ( from the File Menu ), where you should enter the same sharing privileges you chose for the "WWW-docs" folder that is located inside that account folder. Remember, unless you do, nobody will be able to admire your messages to the wired world! Doing so will not render your other stored treasures vulnerable. Please, consult the above graphic for guidance.

Otherwise, the challenge involves facing the Unix Operating System that rules the Internet--and I mean using a number of Unix command-line instructions. You already have an account, being the possessor of an e-mail account: it is named whatever your in-house e-mail address is--in my case, it's "cpb". Inside that directory ("folder" for Mac users), you need to create a directory called "www-docs" [sans ". . .", as always], which will subsequently serve as the storage container for all of your Web documents. To accomplish creating that "www-docs' folder, you need to go to the Unix "shell". I'll not explain the why; I'll guide you through the how, instead. Here we go:

a) Open up Telnet (inside your Communications folder presumably);
type "hermes" into the top text box in the Telnet connection window;
at the prompt, insert your e-mail in-house name (all that's before the "@") and supply your secret password.
b) When the menu appears, choose going to the "shell" (option 7, I believe)
c)at the prompt type: cd [RETURN] F.Y.I.:"cd"stands for change directory)
d)Next type: mkdir www-docs [RETURN] (this creates that required folder; alas, you don't see any confirmation of your success at this point.Yes, I too prefer a Mac].
e) Now you need to make that new folder "world-readable"; so enter at the prompt (spacing matters): chmod 755 www-docs [RETURN]
f) Furthermore, you need to "set permission" for access to your new Home Directory (not the rest of your account):
So,type at the prompt: chmod o+x,g+x . [RETURN] (don't forget that final space, followed by a period!)
g) Leave Telnet open (--if you have used it), but also open the ftp program Fetch; navigate to your account (called "cpb", in my case: see above instructions) on/in "ftp.gac.edu";enter your username and secret password in the appropiate boxes;ignore (=leave blank) the directory box; once your account appears in the Fetch navigation window, scroll down until you see the new "www-docs" folder, which you must select (highlight) and open (click on appropriate button).
h) Put your "index.html" document inside the "www-docs" folder: click on "Put" button; then navigate in the navigation window until you are able to see and highlight your "index.html" file; its name should appear in the new window: make sure "text" is the choice in the pull=down menu box underneath. Click ok and see your file being transferred to inside your new "www-docs" folder.
Close Fetch
i) Return to Telnet (still open and displaying the window you abandoned at the end of e).
j)Now you must make the index.html doc "world-readable";
so, type at the prompt: chmod 644 index.html [RETURN]
Close Telnet and open Netscape to view your work!

You'll be able to see your page right away; the directory listing is automatic and occurs the following night. Try the URL (address) for your new Home Page: http://www.gac.edu/~[your user-name]/. That's all, folks. cpb

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