How to Create Your Home Page

Step 1 - Setting up your account

• Get a CoC account.
• Find out where your web directory is. For many it is under the fac directory: /net/www/fac/Your.Name/
• Please note: this is not the same directory you store your files under for normal everyday usage.
• For help in obtaining a CoC account or finding out where your home directory is contact help@cc

Step 2 - Getting the files

• The frame version consists of three files:
  • index.html
  • facindex.html
  • top.html
• If you don't want a framed home page, only download the facindex.html page.
• Examples of the Frame page and non-frame page.
• If you don't already have a home page, save the sample template into your web directory. One simple way to do this is from Netscape. Click on each page below. Then hit FILE-SAVE AS.. A box will come up showing you a filter, directories, files and selection textboxes. Type your home directory into the filter entry box and press the FILTER button at the bottom. You should now be in your web directoy and the files box should have a listing of any files in your directory(if any). Now at the bottom of the SAVE AS box there should be a Selection dialog box that already has your web directory path in it. At the end of this path put the name of the file that you are looking at(ie index.html, top.html, etc) and press OK. The box should disappear. Now do the same thing for the rest of the files below until you have them all. It is very imporant that you keep the file names consistant! The links to and from them won't work if you change the file names.
• If you would rather copy the files from the command prompt here is what you should do, first login as normal to a CoC machine. Go into your web direcotry on the CoC server by typing:
  %prompt% cd /net/www/fac/Your.Name
  Once there, type the following seperately:
  cp /net/www/people/template/sample/index.html index.html
  cp /net/www/people/template/sample/top.html top.html
  cp /net/www/people/template/sample/facindex.html facindex.html
  This should have put the files onto your web directory. Type ls to view your directory listing. If all three files are there you are done. If not try copying them again or try using Netscape.

Step 3 - Editing

• Now test that you have your files correctly placed onto your account. Go into netscape and type http://www.cc.gatec.edu/fac/Your.Name/
  If your home directory is someplace other than /net/www/fac/ your will need to change the url listed above to point to your location. Just take off the /fac/Your.Name and put whatever your home directory is, leaving off the beginning /net/www/ portion of the path. For example, if your home directory is /net/www/computing/database/Your.Name/ then your url would be: www.cc.gatech.edu/computing/database/Your.Name/
• If your test works then you should have seen the sample home page for George P. Burdell. If not, retrace your steps and try and figure out what might have gone wrong. If you cannot find the mistake contact the webmaster for additional help.
• If you get a Permission Denied error then the file permissions are not set correctly for one or more of your files. Go into your web directory and type chmod 644 * That should make all your pages viewable.
• Ok, now that you have the files, you need to change them and add your information to them. This can be done with whichever text editor you are comfortable with. HTML files are just ASCII text files so anything will do. Just open them up, change the appropriate information and save them. Whenever you make changes, you should first back up your existing file so as not to accidentally erase something important.
• You will only need to make chanes to two of the three files: facindex.html and top.html.
• For top.html, only your name and email address need to be changed. Look for the tags <!EDIT> and <!END EDIT> to see what information needs changing. Do not edit any other information (esp. that which is inclosed in <brackets> unless you are comfortable with HTML.
• The facindex.html file is obviously a bit longer and more involved. Most of the formatting is already in place so it is recommended that you just cut out the text that is there and replace it with your information. If you do not have any information for a specific section then by all means feel free to omit that section. If you are using the frames version, please remember to also delete the corresponding link in top.html.
• If you do not have a picture or need one scanned, then please email webmaster and we can arrange for you to have one taken or scanned in.
• Any further questions can be emailed to webmaster.

Last Modified: Mar 18, 1998 by Donnie Hayes (webmaster@cc.gatech.edu)