Publishing Your Homepage

Upload Files Into Your Home Directory:

If you have a Dialup Internet Account with Telerama, you automatically own a home directory where you can store and publish files for a personal website. Your web address (also known as a URL, for Universal Resource Locator) will be http://users.telerama.com/~username, where "username" is your username (without the "@telerama.com"). For instance, if your telerama username is joeshmo, your URL would be http://users.telerama.com/~joeshmo.

Before we note the procedure for publishing your website, we should mention some resources that you can use to learn how to make and improve web files. For help with HTML and more advanced web topics, check out sites like ProjectCool or Webmonkey.

Once you have completed your homepage, you will need to upload your web files into your home directory so that they will appear when someone accesses your URL. First, you will need to make sure that your main (front) page is called index.html (all in lower-case letters).

Next, point your Netscape web browser to ftp://username@users.telerama.com/html_public, again, where "username" stands for your username.

Enter your Telerama password when you are prompted for it.

Finally, either drag and drop your web files into the Netscape window, or use the Upload option from Netscape's File menu to select and upload them.

Upload Files Using Navigator Gold or Composer:

To upload files into your home directory using Netscape Navigator Gold or Page Composer, set the 'Publishing Location' using the example in the graphic below:

Upload Files Using WsFTP:

To upload files into your home directory using WsFTP setup the Telerama Profile using the example in the graphic below:

Modify Files and Directories using the UNIX Shell:

To enter the Telerama UNIX Shell, point your Telnet client to telerama.com.

Enter your username and password when you are prompted to do so.

When the menu appears, choose 'S' for UNIX Shell, and then 'U' to enter your home directory.

At the '%' prompt, type 'ls' and press ENTER to view the files and directories in your home directory.

To move into your html_public directory, type 'cd html_public' and then type 'ls' to view your files.

To create directories within your html_public directory type 'mkdir directory_name', where "directory_name" stands for whatever you prefer to call the new directory.

Next, type 'chmod og+rx directory_name', (using the name you gave to the new directory).

To edit or create .html files, use the pico editor:

type 'pico your_file.html'.

Refer to the menu at the bottom of the editor for the necessary commands.

Type 'chmod 644 your_file.html' when you are finished editing your file.