| Can I Have a Personal WWW Home Page?
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You can establish DPO web space, and have access to a limited amount of disk space on the World Wide Web (WWW) server for storing your home page. |
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| How? |
1. Write your home page in HTML (HyperText Markup Language).
2. Transfer the home page documents from your computer to the subdirectory named web on the web server www.dpo.uab.edu (The subdirectory is already there).
3. Tell others where to find your page. |
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| How do I write a home page? |
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
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| Where Do I Put My Personal Home Page? |
Transfer your pages to www.dpo.uab.edu; be sure you have placed them in your
sub-directory named web. Each file must have the file extension .html
or .htm |
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| How do I get my Personal WWW Home Pages to DPO? |
You will need to use FTP (File Transfer Protocol) to store your files. |
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| How Do I View My Home Pages/files? |
Anyone can use a Web browser and open the following URL (Uniform Resource Locator):
http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~youralias/filename.html
youralias is also your UAB Electronic Phonebook alias (don't forget the tilde
~), and filename is replaced by the name of the file you wish to
view.
You may also access/publish your homepage as: http://homepage.uab.edu/yourblazerid
Remember, our web server is case sensitive; this means that the file named Index.htm is not the same as the file name index.htm.
Therefore, pay close attention to your use of upper and lower case letters.
To make a page come up as the default web page for your site, you must name it index.html, index.htm, home.html or home.htm.
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