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These instructions are meant for students, faculty and staff using accounts on MSU CSE instructional systems. The procedures described below may not correspond to the procedure for adding your own page at other locations. Files ending in the extensions .htm and .html are HyperText Markup Language files. HTML is the markup language you use to specify the contents of a web page. Many HTML primers are available on the web: One way to learn HTML is to surf the web and look at the source for interesting pages (browsers have a menu option for this, usually on a View menu). Many pages now are created by a composer or word processor, and may be very difficult to understand, containing a great deal of embedded extraneous material. You'll have to look for pages that were coded by hand. How to create your own home page: Everyone with an account on the CSE instructional systems is able to create their own home page. Your home page is not limited in any way. You are free to make references to other pages, pictures, sound, movies, etc. (However, you may not have paid advertising on, or operate a business from, your CSE home page!) Following are directions for setting up your home page. If you have questions or comments please email manager@cse.msu.edu, giving us enough information to answer your question. First, create a directory in your home directory named web (e.g., mkdir ~/web). This directory must be called web. This directory is where you store all of your documents, pictures, etc. Second, make your web directory world readable (e.g., chmod 755 ~/web). If you do not make the directory world readable, no one can see any of your documents. Third, create a file called index.html in ~/web that contains your home page. This file is your main or top page. If you want to add other pages later you make references to them inside of index.html. (You may want to learn about making your index.html first.) Fourth, make index.html world readable (e.g., chmod 644 ~/web/index.html). Finally, your home directory must be world accessible (e.g., chmod 711 ~). If the file ~/web/index.html exists and is accessible and readable, our nightly web server cron job will add your page to our page of student home pages. If you create an index.html file and your page is not added to the appropriate place within 24 hours, please send email to manager@cse.msu.edu and let us know. You are now ready to try out your page. To test it simply start a web browser and, under the File menu, select Open. When the dialog box comes up type in the URL of your home page: www.cse.msu.edu/~<username>
Where <username> is your login name, for example: www.cse.msu.edu/~knuthdon
If you experience errors, edit your index.html, fix the problems, and reload your page. One of the most common errors is that you won't see anything at all! Missing end tags such as </table> often result in an entire section simply not being displayed. If you want help debugging your page, look at the validation software on the W3C site. Enter the URL of your home page (as explained just above) and check the box to get the weblint results. We've just scratched the surface of what you can do with a web page. The web has become as complex as any other part of computing, and is fast becoming the commercial raison d'être for computing. Have fun!
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3115 Engineering Building
East Lansing, MI 48824-1226
Phone: (517) 353-3148
Fax: (517) 432-1061
web@cse.msu.edu