Making Your Own Home Page
(Math Faculty and Graduates)
To make an html file your home page:
Have the system administrator make a web directory for you,
/www/yourname
where -yourname- is your login name, e.g. /www/dale
Copy your html file to this directory.
Send me a message and I'll link it to the department's homepage.
You can get started with a simple "door-card" homepage as follows:
Logon to UNIX. Enter the following commands:
The homepage will look like this.
Now edit the file /www/yourname/index.html
Replace my name with your name and fill in your office and phone information.
Your picture is in the directory /www/dale/board.
So replace
www.math.hawaii.edu/~dale/myers.jpg
with
www.math.hawaii.edu/~dale/yourlastname.jpg.
"yourlastname.jpg" is your large picture,
"yourlastnames.jpg" is the small thumbnail picture.
To see the result, point our browser to www.math.hawaii.edu/~yourname
Instead of editing the html code directly, you can edit it in a wysiwyg editor such as Netscape's Composer.
Open Netscape, Select "Communicator/Composer/Open" Then open your file, say
/www/yourname/index.html
edit it and then save it.
To allow users to download your paper "FermatProof.pdf", put the file in your /www/yourname web directory
and reference it with the anchor
< a href=http://www.math.hawaii.edu/~yourname/FermatProof.pdf> My paper on Fermat's Theorem.</a>
Similarly for dvi files.
For examples see Ralph's home page and select "Document Source" from the "View" menu.
For more information on creating home pages see the documents below.
- Basic HTML manual
- HTML Tags
- HTML characters
- Web Documents for Beginners
- A guide to HTML documents
- Short HTML course
- WebMonkey
- Making a homepage
- World Wide Web HTML 3 specification
- Sandia HTML Reference
- Homepages on Unix systems
- Advanced HTML, Tips & tricks, Color Chart1 Chart2
- Add a counter
- PPP connections for faculty with Win95
Putting TeX on the web.
For examples of homepages for math courses, see World Lecture Hall.