RCI Home Page Template


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Introduction

Account holders on the OIT RCI system can now create their own pages for the World Wide Web. As a means of getting you started, we've created a sample home page you can use as a template for your own.

Your Web pages will be made available from your RCI account. Here's how to set one up using this template.

Using the Template

  1. Copy the following lines (everything between the two ---cut here--- lines) into a file. You can use your Web browser (Netscape, Mosaic, Lynx, or the info command on OIT systems) to do this. ---cut here--- <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Home Page Template</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <H3>YourName's Home Page</H3> <IMG SRC="YourPicture.gif" ALT="Text to be typed if picture can't be shown"> <p>Picture Title <H3>Where I Work</H3> <P> I work at <A HREF="http://info.rutgers.edu/">Rutgers University</A>. </P><P> You can put a short, descriptive paragraph or two here, replacing this paragraph with your own. Your text will be reformatted automatically to fit the width of the screen of the person who's viewing your home page. </P><P> If you want more than one paragraph, separate them with the <P> and </P> tags. </P> <H3>Professional Interests</H3> <UL> <LI>description <LI>description <LI>description </UL> <H3>Other Interests</H3> <UL> <LI>description <LI>description <LI>description </UL> <H3 ALIGN=CENTER>Personal Hot List</H3> <UL> <LI><A HREF="http://www.whitehouse.gov/">The White House</A> <LI><A HREF="http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/academic/classes/TU5020/projects/he/ higher_ed.html">A Survey of College and University WWW Sites</A> <LI><A HREF="Put the URL Here">Put the link description here</a> </UL> <ADDRESS> YourName (<A HREF="MAILTO:username@rci.rutgers.edu">username@rci.rutgers.edu</A>) </ADDRESS> <HR> </BODY> </HTML> ---cut here---
  2. Edit the file and replace items such as YourName, personal URL, and description with appropriate info. For example,
    YourName
    Your full name
    YourPicture.gif
    A graphic image saved in GIF format. If you don't know what that is, delete the line that contains this information and the one below it.
    description
    Whatever information you'd like to provide on the topic.
    http://info.rutgers.edu/
    The Web address of your department or division's home page (if they have one). This may be a page beneath the main Rutgers page, in which case you would add the rest of the path to that page to the address.
    Put the URL Here
    The Web address of a site to which you'd like people reading your home page to be able to go.
    Put the link description here
    A brief description of that Web site.
    username@rci
    Your e-mail address

    You can change anything in the file, but be careful about changing any of the HTML tags. You may change anything in quotes within a tag. If you want to delete something with one of the HTML tags, such as <H3> , be sure to delete everything up to and including the appropriate closing tag, such as </H3> . The lines beginning with <LI> have no closing tags and may be deleted as necessary.

    You can also add such information as your phone number, mailing address, etc., anywhere you wish. Separate paragraphs with the <P> and </P> tags. See below for more information on HTML tags.

  3. Issue the following UNIX commands while in your home directory.
    mkdir public_html
    chmod a+rx public_html
  4. Check the protection of your public_html subdirectory with the following command:
    ls -ld public_html
    If the protection does not read drwxr-xr-x, you should reissue the command
    chmod a+rx public_html
  5. Transfer your edited home page template into the public_html directory and rename it as index.html. If you have it in your main directory, the command is
    mv pagefile public_html/index.html
    where pagefile is the name you've given the template while editing it.
  6. Check the protection of your index.html file with the following commands:
    cd public_html
    ls -l index.html
    If the protection does not read -rw-r--r--, you should give everyone read access to the file with the command
    chmod a+r index.html
  7. People can access your home page via the URL
    http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~username
    where username is your username on RCI.
  8. As you learn more about HTML and the World Wide Web, you may modify your home page (the public_html/index.html file) as you will. Remember that you have a limited amount of diskspace available to you on RCI. Your pages may be as elaborate as you like, but you may not exceed your allotted diskspace.

The Result

Here's what the above code looks like in the original form given:

YourName's Home Page

Text to be typed if picture can't be shown

Picture Title

Where I Work

I work at Rutgers University.

You can put a short, descriptive paragraph or two here, replacing this paragraph with your own. Your text will be reformatted automatically to fit the width of the screen of the person who's viewing your home page.

If you want more than one paragraph, separate them with the <P> and </P> tags.

Professional Interests

  • description
  • description
  • description

Other Interests

  • description
  • description
  • description

Personal Hot List

YourName (username@rci.rutgers.edu)

Advanced Information

For information on creating more sophisticated home pages, consult the links at the end of the NBCS document Publishing for the World Wide Web.



webmaster@rci.rutgers.edu
08/06/01