Making your first web page

Web Pages can be published to your personal server space, inside of your public/html/ folders.

Don't have public/html/ folders? You'll need to create them. Just follow these steps.

• 1. Log on to your UNIX filesystem, and type mkhome. This command will create the directories public/html wherein you should place all the .html files for your website.

  2. Make the .html files for your website (this is the real work) and put them in your public/html directory. Your main file should be called index.html. You can make a site with many pages linked together or a site consisting of just one page. You can write the pages in straight HTML code with a text editor, saving them as .html files, or you can use a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) progam, such as Adobe Dreamweaver, to create the web pages in a more point-and-click fashion. If you don't know HTML, you can learn some (it's not that hard) by perusing the HTML resources listed below.

  3. Type cd ~/public/html and then fixweb. This will change the read, write, and execute permissions on your public/html files and subdirectories so the whole world can view your site. Do this evertime you update your website.

  4. Check out your page on the Web visiting http://www.math.wisc.edu/~username where username is your username.

If you did everything right, a link to your website from your online directory listing will automatically be created within 24 hours.

Still can't see it?

Check your permissions.

• • type fixweb

  • or

  • go to your public/html folder

  • and type

  • chmod -R 755 *

Or....login to your Google Drive with your netid.

http://apps.google.wisc.edu

in the upper right corner, you'll find a block of 3X3 dots next to your name.

Click that and choose Sites.

Google Sites is a much easier way to create a web site.

Change your sharing to public once you are done, and email nagreen@math.wisc.edu with your new URL.