Help:Making a homepage

From MMAE

Anyone with an account on a UCF webserver may create web pages. However, your pages should follow the rules for UCF use of information technology resources.

Some basic help with making an html web page can be found at Help:WWW help.

[edit] Home page locations

If you want to have a web home page, first you must choose which server will host that page. A few of the options UCF students have are:

pegasus.cc.ucf.edu

All students have access to create home pages on pegasus. See Pegasus Home Page Setup for instructions.

CECS servers

All Engineering students get an account on these servers. Upload files to http://storage.cecs.ucf.edu/nid and log in as cecs\nid in the Student Web Folder, it should show up at http://student.cecs.ucf.edu/nid/

MMAE wiki (here)

No direct permission necessary; create yourself an account and create pages. Note that inappropriate content will be removed, see MMAE:Policy.

MMAE server (http://www2.mmae.ucf.edu)

All eml4024 and eml4535 students get accounts on this server; any MMAE student who does not already have an account can also apply for one without taking these courses. Instructions for creating pages below. Files that are placed in your public_html directory will be visible under http://www2.mmae.ucf.edu/~login/

After you have created your page, you are welcome to add it to User homes if you are affiliated with Engineering somehow.

[edit] MMAE server

To create your own home page on the MMAE machines, use mkdir to create a subdirectory called public_html, and in that directory use an editor to edit a file called Welcome.html or index.html. This is the first page seen when someone accesses your web directory. You may link from there to additional items in the same directory or subdirectories or elsewhere on the web.

Editors you could use to create the web page include:

unix

Vi, Emacs, dtpad, Netscape Composer, Bluefish

windows

notepad, Netscape Composer, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Word, Frontpage

The index page uses the HyperText Markup Language. You can include in your page pictures using the gif, jpg, or png file formats. In addition, you could link to other documents. Any file can be linked to but possible, convert other formats to html format or PDF format before posting them on the web.

If you have a large collection of pictures, from unix, you can use the mkpicdir command on the MMAE servers to automatically build an index file and make thumbnails for your pictures.

You can use tools to edit your images such as:
unix: gimp, ImageMagick, xv, display
windows: gimp, photoeditor, photoshop

If you want to restrict access to some or all of your web pages, e.g, to password protect homework solutions, you can set up an htaccess file by hand or automatically generate it with webpw.