Instructions for Web Page
Getting Set Up
1. Go to “Start” then click
on “run”
2. In the “run” box type: telnet unix.uidaho.edu
3. The login page will appear. Type in your username and password.
4. At the prompt type:
WWW-starter-kit
5. Answer questions.
6. Check your homepage by
going to internet explorer and typing in the address for your homepage which
is: www.uidaho.edu/~“username” (don’t add quotation marks).
To make changes to your
homepage:
1. Go back to “run” and type:
telnet unix.uidaho.edu
2. Login.
4. At prompt type: cd
public_html
8. Immediately another prompt
comes up. Here type: pico index.html
9. Now you are at the editing
page for your home page.
10. Use html codes to change
your web-page.*
11. When you are done making
changes, press “Ctrl X” to exit.
12. When it asks you if you
want to keep changes, press “y”.
13. When it says:
“index.html” press “Enter”.
14. Go back to your homepage
and click on the “refresh” icon. You should seen the changes you made.
* to find the html codes you
can visit the following ITS website:
http://helpdesk.uidaho.edu/helpdocuments/internet_applications/web_page_creation/
For more information re:
websites and some good website examples, you can visit the following addresses:
"http://www.cyborglab.pdx.edu/PortfolioProject/"
"http://www.web.pdx.edu/~Wayney/"
. "http://www.ous.pdx.edu"
Putting Pictures on Your
Homepage
1. Go to a web page that has
pictures. (www.google.com is a good one)
2. Browse until you find a
picture you like.
3. Right click on the
picture.
4. Click “save picture as”.
5. Go to pull-down menu and
click on your H-drive (it will be the one with your username in front).
6. Click on the “application
explorer” icon on the main screen.
7. Click on the “UI” tree
icon.
8. Click on FTP. Enter
username and password.
9. Click on your picture file
in the left-hand window.
10. Click on the arrow that
points to the right-hand window.
11. Once the picture file is
in the right-hand box, move it to your “public_html” folder (also found in the
right-hand box).
12. Write down on a piece of
paper the name of your picture file.
13. Go back to the unix
editing page.
14. Use the picture command:
<img src=“. . .”>
a) Write the name of your picture file where the “. . .”
is.
example:
<img src=“aamoonrise2.jpg”>
15. Exit unix editor page and
return to homepage.
16. Click on the “refresh”
icon and your page should show the picture.*
*Sometimes the “refresh” may
not work. In that case, just close the page down and re-open it.
Homepage Editing Made Easy
This list of instructions
describes how to open a program that will let you edit your page without having
to use the html codes. In order to use this program you need to have access to
“Front Page Express”. So, you may need to use a university computer.
1. Click on the “application
explorer” icon.
2. Click on the “UI” tree
icon, then “internet”, then “Front Page Express”.
3. Click on the “FTP” icon.
4. Once in “FTP” windows,
click on “index.html” file in the right-hand window and then click the arrow
that sends it to the left-hand window.
5. Go back to “Front Page
Ex”.
6. Click on “file”, then
“open”, then “browse”.
7. Click on the drop-down and
then on your H-drive (the one with your username in front).
8. Click on “index”.
9. Now you can edit your page
as if you were working on a word processor.
10. When you’re done, click
“file” then “save”.
11. Return to “FTP”.
12. Click the “refresh”
button in “FTP”.
13. Move the “index” file
from the left to the right window.
14. Now check your page. The changes should be there.