Creating Your Own Web Page
CS 142: The Mathematics of Computer Graphics, Spring 2007

  1. In your home directory, create a new folder called

    public_html

  2. A web page is a text file that contains a simple language called HTML (HyperText Markup Language). To create your own web home page you must create an HTML file with the name index.html and place this file into the public_html folder. This will be explained in the steps below.

    Note, there is a lot of software available for creating web pages without having to learn html. In this class, however, you will be creating your own webpages using a very limited subset of HTML. This is not a course in web page design or in HTML programming. For this reason, you are expected to keep your pages very simple. The main purpose of creating the pages is to display your work.

  3. To create index.html, open up a blank page in Notepad (you may use any editor but you must be careful to always save your file as an plain ASCII text file). Save the file into your public_html folder using the name index.html.

    Go to the webpage here and view the source by going to the menu "View;Page Source". Copy and paste this source into your index.html file in Notepad and save.

  4. To check that you have successfully created your own web page, open up any browser window and type in your home page address:

    http://www.willamette.edu/~your_login_name

    Where your_login_name is the same as your email address. If you get an error make sure that everything is named correctly. If everything is named correctly then you may have a problem with file permissions. Check with the instructor in this case.

  5. You will need to modify the contents of index.html so that it contains information about you and your work. We will discuss in lecture how to do this. There is much information available on the web as well:

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