Setting Up Your Personal Home Page

To create your own HTML home page, follow the steps below and then send email to webmaster (webmaster@stat.ufl.edu) to have your link properly listed in the personnel files.

1. Create a directory called "public_html" in your home directory.

$ mkdir ~/public_html


2. Create your HTML home page inside public_html and call it "index.html".

$ emacs ~/public_html/index.html


Note: For help on using HTML, read one or more of the following:

• Introduction to HTML
• Beginner's Guide to HTML
3. Finally, you need to make sure:
• ...that index.html is readable by everyone else and

$ chmod 644 ~/public_html/index.html


• ...that public_html is readable/executable by everyone else and

$ chmod 0755 ~/public_html


• ...and that your home directory is also readable/executable by everyone else.

$ chmod 755 ~


4. Following these steps will set your home page URL to:

http://www.stat.ufl.edu/~youruserid

To ensure that your documents are correct and can be read by browsers other than Netscape:

• Check the syntax of your documents by running them through weblint. Weblint will find and report errors to you that Netscape tolerates, but which will render your page unreadable to other browsers.

Finally, there are lots of resources out there, such as HTML References.

Last modified: Wed Aug 15 13:08:12 EDT 2007