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An HTML document is essentially text with a lot of embedded codes which allow browsers to understand the document. A very simple home page might contain the following text:
<html> <head> <title>My Personal Homepage</title> </head> <body> <h1>Hello World</h1> </body> </html>
This example shows the required tags for any HTML document: <html>, <head>, and <body>. At the end of a tag, you turn it off with the tag name preceded by a "/" slash.
Of course, your home page will be much more complex than this example with lots more text, lists, graphics, etc. For information on creating HTML pages, check out the Netscape® WWW site or check one of the many good books on HTML available such as "Using HTML" from QUE by Tom Savola. There are also a number of WWW Sites which help you develop your HTML pages. Here is a pretty good site.
You must name the main file for your home page either
"index.htm" or "index.html." This file is
automatically loaded by the HTTP Server when a browser asks for
your directory. You can name other pages anything you like. You
simply need to build in links to secondary pages.
The simple answer is with FTP.
If you have your HTML files ready to go and you are familiar with FTP, it is simple to get your web pages up and running.
When your account was established, a special directory called was created for you. You can simply login to the server and connect to your home directory and transfer your html files to that directory.
Any FTP program can upload files to your web page directory. The information you have to provide is:
FTP Server name: www.perigee.net
User Name: Your Perigee.net loginname*
Password: Your Perigee.net password*
Home page directory: /yourloginname/
* - Remember: Perigee.net login names and passwords are case sensitive.
A command line FTP session might look something like this:
C:\htmldocs>ftp ftp> open www.perigee.net Connected to jupiter.perigee.net. jupiter FTP server (Version wu-2.4(1) Tue Aug 8 15:50:43 CDT 1995) ready. User (jupiter.perigee.net:(none)): YourLoginName 331 Password required for YourLoginName. Password: YourPassword User YourLoginName logged in. ftp> mput * mput .? n mput ..? n mput index.htm? y mput graphic.jpg? y mput graphic2.jpg? y ftp> quit 221 Goodbye.
If you want a good graphical FTP Client, Winsock FTP 32 is pretty easy to use.
With Navigator, publishing your web page is very easy. Here's how:
Hint: You may want to copy your password (Ctrl+C) into the windows clipboard and use paste (Ctrl+V) to paste it when needed. This would help if you were going back to the server often in a short time. Obvisouly, you should copy something else into the buffer if you are leaving your PC.
Everyone's WWW page is a work in progress. As a matter of fact, to keep your site interesting, you must constantly update its content. You can change your WWW page at any time by using the above procedure to upload the pages from your hard drive. If you drop a file into your directory that has the same name as an existing file, the system will automatically overwrite the old version.
If you are pretty new to HTML, you may want to investigate the capabilities of Netscape's Navigator Gold. This product allows you to edit and publish your web pages within the framework of a single product. Check out the Netscape site for more information or download a copy of this product.