Home pages are very easy to create these days. Current versions of word processors like WORD and WORDPERFECT have a "SAVE AS HTML" option; just create a document as you normally would, and save it in this format. NETSCAPE and INTERNET EXPLORER also make it easy to create web pages. Or, if you like a more "hands on" approach, you can type HTML codes directly into a text file and save your file in Text (ASCII,DOS) format. Then transfer your files to the web server.
Example web page
Write your home page in HTML (HyperText Markup Language). There are many good references on the web about how to use HTML; a good one to start with is found at NCSA. You can also use the editor built into Netscape, or any other software for creating web pages. Transfer the HTML documents that you have created on your computer to the subdirectory named web located in your assigned space on the www.dpo.uab.edu web server. You will need the ALIAS and PASSWORD you selected when you created your DPO account. You will move your documents using FTP software.
Please Note: - Substitute your ALIAS for the word alias.
- Do not forget the tilde character ~, often located in the upper right coroner of your keyboard.
- if you name your homepage home.html, home.htm, index.html, or index.htm you will not have to include those words in your URL.
If you are transferring files from a Macintosh or a Windows machine, here are some very important things to remember: - UNIX is case sensitive (INDEX.HTML is not the same as index.html; Index.html is not the same as index.html)
- UNIX does not understand filenames with spaces in them
- Limit your use of filename characters to a-z, A-Z, 0-9, - (dash), _ (underscore), and . (period).