| How do I receive my FREE Personal Web
Page?
To receive your free Personal Web Page you need to email webadmin@ix.net.au and your space will be allocated
for use. Users are limited to 500kb of space for home pages, extra space is available at a
cost. This space is for personal use only, and not for business or corporate presence.
What is my Home Page Address (URL)?
On Internet Express, your personal home page address will be:
http://myweb.lx.net.au/~username
The username listed above should be replaced with YOUR login name. That way
people on the Internet will be able to find your personal Web Site!
Now that you know your web address, let's get to building the pages...
A - Your Own Homepage
With the great interest in the World Wide Web, we offer you* the opportunity
to have your own presence on the Internet. A good selection of HTML authoring tools can be
found at TUCOWS. This document
will explain the basics of Web page construction, HTML coding, and what the directory
structure of your individual site should be.
This is a basic training document, and should not be considered a comprehensive
intructional manual. For more complete information about HTML coding, you can start with
the Web Developer's Virtual Library, or there are many
texts available, both on-line and in the bookstore on Web Page management. Some suggested
reading might include HTML Book of Style, or the HTML Sourcebook.
* To be eligible for a
Free Personal Home Page on Internet Express,
you MUST be an Internet Express client!
B - Personal Web Page
Directory Structure
Your individual web site is your personal sub-directory on the web
server, and as such, your login name and password should be protected to prevent anyone
else from accessing or re-writing the information on your site. The directory you login to
is where you HTML files need to be placed. Please note that outside access, such as
from the web, is controlled to read-only, while your login account has complete write
access to to your directory.
When you use a web browser, such as Netscape, and look at the contents of your
personal site the browser will automatically look for a file called index.html. This
is the default display file, and if present, will automatically display when the directory
is accessed. If it is not present, your browser will display a directory listing of the
site.
Creating Sub-Directories
Using your FTP utility (File Transfer Protocol), you can log in using your
login name and login password. This will put you in your HTML directory on the
system, and will enable you to move files into and out of your directory. You can also
create new sub-directories by using the mkdir function of FTP. Similar to the MD command
in MS-DOS, the UNIX mkdir command creates the new sub-directory where you request, but
creates it with you as the owner. This is important, as this will decide who has access to
the new sub-directory. You can see how you can diagram the sub-directory structure in the
diagram below.
(in the above diagram the html directory refers to your login directory)
You will notice that you can have both images and html files in area other
than your html directory. The problem that could exist is the potential for mis-spellings,
or inaccurate directory tree structure, that will cause the pre-defined path names to
fail.
C - How to upload your HTML files
using a FTP client
Uploading files to the server is as simple as logging into the system.
Once you have established a connection to Internet Express, you can start the FTP tool,
and select Connect to Host. Under Host Name, put myweb.ix.net.au Leave Host Type
Automatic Detect. In the spaces provided for User ID, put your system login name, and
under Password, put your system login password.
Once logged into your directory space on Internet Express, you can change
directories on the remote side by simply clicking on the sub-directory name in the upper
box on the right-hand side of the screen. Your personal home page area exists right where
you start. This is where you will build, maintain, and display your personal home page
from.
D - Restrictions on FREE Personal Web
Space
Essentially, there are only a few restrictions on what you may put in
your FREE Internet Express Personal Web Page:
Personal Web space is just that, for personal information. Any advertising,
marketing, promoting or pricing of ANY enterprise, service or product, public or private
is strictly forbidden. Any Internet Express user attempting to do so will have their Web
Page access removed until payment for the used service is arranged. This restriction may
be waived for community service organizations, and will be reviewed on an individual
basis. For the purpose of this definition:
- Non-profit or not-for-profit organization status does not automatically make an
organization a community service.
- All Churches and Church organizations are considered commercial in nature.
Users do NOT have access to the CGI-BIN or CGI-SCRIPT capabilities of Internet
Express. As a direct result of the security issues presented by CGI programming, there is
no other option except absolute restriction.
As clearly stated under the Terms and Conditions of Use for Internet Express, no
user may operate any process or program that functions while the user is NOT logged in.
E - How do I get my home page listed
on the Internet Express Personal page?
Once you have your page up and ready, and you want your page listed on
the Internet Express Personal page, all you need do is send an e-mail message to webadmin@ix.net.au requesting to be added. Then,
during the next update, your page will be added to the list!
How do I let everyone know about my site?
There are a number of search engines you can go to to submit your site to
the world. Perhaps two of the easiest are:
Links to HTML references
Links to HTML Authoring Tools
Links to graphics for your
web page
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