WWW Home Page Instructions

To make a WWW home page for yourself at STARLab, you will need to create a specially formatted file called Welcome.html and place it in a subdirectory of your nova home directory called public_html. This file should be written in the Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML. A simple example of such a file should be enough to get you started. Once you do this, send mail to webmaster to get your name added to the Students page.

If you are using Mosaic to view this document or the simple example, you can use the View Source command in the File menu to see the HTML source used to generate what you are seeing. You can also use the Save As command to save the HTML source code to a local file. Similarly, in Netscape you can use the Document Source command in the View menu.

See Creating Net Sites for help writing hypertext documents. Here are some more sources of information:

A Beginner's Guide to HTML is the standard primer.
HTML Writing Tutorial is a lesson-based introduction to creating HTML documents.
How to write HTML files gives some more advanced information.
Ian Graham's HTML Documentation is a complete manual.
HTML Quick Reference Guide has a summary of HTML syntactical elements.
Style Guide for Online Hypertext gives some hints at how to write an HTML document you'll be proud of.
Composing Good HTML has more style hints and also warns against many common errors.
World Wide Web Primer discusses the Web in general.
A Beginner's Guide to URLs describes how to read and understand Uniform Resource Locators.
Tools For Aspiring Web Weavers points to more tools to help write hypertext.

And here are some more advanced documents:

Official HTML Specification
Syntactical Elements of HTML
Advanced tools for WWW providers
SGML Description (Standard Generalized Markup Language)
Creating HTML Docs with Emacs explains how to use the special html-mode in Emacs.
HTML Authoring explains how to convert existing documents into HTML and HTML Converters gives examples for document formats like PostScript, Microsoft RTF, Word Perfect, Frame Maker, and LaTeX.
X Mosaic Fill-Out Forms and some examples.
Complex Features for Information Providers

Finally, Web users and authors will find this excellent collection of documents about the Web very useful.

Last update: 11 September, 1995

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