Making your home page

Now you too can have a Web home page from the convenience of your HOME directory! Here's how:

1. Read this document completely 3 times     :-)

2. Learn what a homepage is and how the things work by READING, No you don't need any expensive books. Also I would recommend that you create your first homepage by hand with a text editor like Windows NotePad, that way you learn what's involved before you waste money on some fancy HTML editor which you won't be happy with anyway. Just take a look at some of these:
   • A Beginner's Guide to HTML

   Then:
   

3. Login to home.tri.net (using telnet or shell access) Select Shell access at the menu.

4. Create Your home page:
   At the UNIX prompt, which will look like:
   home:~$
   Type the following:

   cd public_html <RETURN>
   pico index.html <RETURN>

   Then edit your heart out. Note that the editor (pico) is very simple but does have help available, the keystroke commands that display along the bottom of the window use a ^ to indicate that you should hold down the CONTROL key on you keyboard. ^O means to hold down the CTRL key and strike the O, which is incidentally the command to save the file after your done editing (Use ^X to exit when your done). When you're done, load up your browser and view the damage. You can then switch back and forth between editing and viewing to refine it. Be aware that most browsers cache pages, so you may have to push the refresh/reload button between each edit.

   **NOTE** - Once your done playing, make sure you exit pico as described above AND then type exit or logout at the UNIX prompt (home:~$) to close your telnet session properly

   If you don't the UNIX demons will haunt you to your grave! And me too.

   OR alternatively, create your homepage using the editor of your choice, such as HotDog on your home PC then upload it (using ftp) to your public_html directory as index.html

5. Mail webmaster@tri.net and I'll put a link to your HOME page on our @tri.net page.

   You can then reference your home page (or anything in ~/public_html) as

   http://www.tri.net/~user_id

   (where user_id is your login name)