How to write your own WWW home page

It's easy to create your own World Wide Web home page that others can access. All you need to do is create a world-accessible directory called WWW and add your name to the list of people who have homepages. E.g.:

math %  cd			       # make sure you're in your home dir

math %  mkdir WWW		       # make a subdirectory called WWW

math %  chmod a+rx WWW		       # make sure everyone can read it

math %  chmod a+x .                    # give permission for people to have

                                       # access to your home directory

Then put world-readable hypertext files in that directory. For a user bob the file index.html would have the address of:

 http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~bob/index.html [1]

For information on URLs (Uniform Resource Locator or document addresses), HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and how to write hypertext documents see the section Webmaster's Links [1] on our local information page.

If the URL is of the form:

 http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~bob [2]

(i.e., no file specified) then the file index.html is used (if it exists).

Getting started with HTML

To create or edit your web page, you have two primary options. The first is to use a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) HTML editor. These editors are very similar to word processors such as Microsoft Word, and allow you to edit your webpage with no knowledge of HTML by marking up text as you would in Word. For this route, we recommend using Netscape/Mozilla Composer (found under the Window menu in Netscape or Mozilla).

The second and more commonly used method is to write HTML directly using a text editor (such as vi, emacs, or any other plain text editor). HTML is relatively simple and there are numerous tutorials out there to help. In addition, the computer support group has a number of HTML books available for checkout in MW 430. Here are some helpful links to get started.

http://www.w3schools.com/html/ [3]
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/ [4]
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/ [5]
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerAll.html [6]
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Campus/1924/ [7]