How to put your homepage on the Web

## How to put your homepage on the Web: A Quick Guide

The first thing to do, of course, is write a homepage in HTML. Also, stylisticly speaking, the webmasters currently recommend Jake Harris, Sal Valente, Bridget Spitznagel's, and Eri Izawa's home pages as examples.

On Athena, we suggest you make a world-readable directory for all your html documents.

The current suggestion for a directory is ~/www. You might do:

  `athena% mkdir ~/www

  `
  `athena% fs sa ~/www system:anyuser read`

The first line creates the directory, the second makes it (and only it) readable to anyone. You might want to have a friend try to look at the files to make sure it worked if you're not sure. Then send the pathname of your homepage to webmaster@mit.edu. Note that HTML documents must end in ".html".

If you don't have AFS, but can somehow serve your file using anonymous FTP, Gopher, or HTTP, send us the URL if you know it, or else the name of the machine on which you're keeping your files and the path to your homepage.

If none of the above applies to you, or you need some additional help, please send mail to webmaster@mit.edu and we'll try to help you out.