Creating your personal web page(s) at UCL
NB Your URL will be http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~xxxxxxx (your UCL UserID)
Web pages are written using HTML (Hyper Text MarkUp
Language). This is the code that makes web pages appear as you see them
in your browser e.g. Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, Chrome, etc.
You can write HTML pages by typing the HTML code into a text editor such as Notepad and then saving the file as index.htm or index.html The files must have a .htm or .html extension for them to work.
There are software packages that
allow you write and format HTML code in the same way
that Microsoft Word allows you to write and format
a Word document.
The package we have installed on the
IS system, WTS, is Macromedia
Dreamweaver 8. To open Dreamweaver log in to WTS
and choose the Start button. Select Software
A-Z and under D, choose Macromedia Dreamweaver 8.
If you need help, you can sign up for a Dreamweaver course and/or consult the online training materials available.
If you want your web pages to be hosted
by UCL so that your URL or web address is http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucaaxxx (where
ucaaxxx is your userid), you need to create a folder
on the route of your Email-Unix T:\ drive called html.pub.
Only files saved in that folder can be viewed over
the web. You need to have one file in that folder called index.htm. This will be the first page that you see when you go
to the URL http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucaaxxx
Making your pages viewable to the world
Once you have created your web pages you will not be able to view them
through your web browser until you have changed the permissions of the
files. There are two ways you can do this:
Through WTS
In WTS you
can run a program which will make your html pages viewable
on the web (you must use Staff WTS 2000; this feature is not available in WTS 2010):
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1. Create your html.pub
directory on your T:\ drive and save all of your html pages and
graphics in this directory. You must ensure that your home page (the
page you want to see first when you go to your website) is saved as index.htm Now you need to change the permissions on these files. |
| 2. Go to the Start button and choose Programs > Software P-R > Publish Web Pages. |
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3. Log in with your normal IS userid and password. This will run a
program that will change the permissions of any files saved in the T:\html.pub directory, making them readable on the web at the URL http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucaaxxx (where ucaaxxx is your userid). |
If you are not using WTS:
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1. Create your html.pub directory on your T:\
drive and save all of your html pages and graphics
in this directory. You must ensure that your home
page (the page you want to see first when you go
to your website) is saved as index.htm Now you need to change the permissions on these files. |
| 2. To do this connect to socrates.ucl.ac.uk and type: chmod a+rx . (make sure you type the full stop) |
| 3. Now type: chmod a+rx html.pub |
| 4. Now go into your html.pub directory by typing: cd html.pub |
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5. You now need to change the permissions
on all of the files within this directory. To do this type: chmod a+rx filename As a short cut you can type: chmod a+rx *.htm (this can be done for all file types). |
You should now be able to reach your web page at the following address: http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucaaxxx
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