Making a quick home page - Windows
Overview
If you have a SUNet ID and a Stanford Unix account, then you've probably got a pre-configured, ready to use WWW folder in your home directory. All you want to do now is put up a home page fast. (If you need to create a web page somewhere else, take a look at the Creating a WWW directory page.) This page tells you how to create a fast home page with Windows XP or Windows Vista using Stanford Open AFS, which is available to the Stanford community fee-of-charge.
Go to your WWW folder
Put your AFS home folder onto your desktop
- If you have Stanford Desktop Tools installed, right-click the
icon in the lower right area of your screen and click Mount AFS Volume.
(Alternatively, you can click Start and navigate to Programs > Stanford > OpenAFS > Stanford AFS Controller. ) - When the Mount AFS Volume window opens, under "Mount volume belonging to," click My Home and then click Mount. If you need help doing this, see Using Stanford OpenAFS for Windows.
- Your home folder will open in Windows Explorer. Double-click the WWW folder to open it.
Create your home page
Open Notepad
- Click the Start menu.
- Click Run or press the Windows logo key + R.
- Type notepad in the dialog box.
- Click OK.
Or ...
- Click the Start menu.
- Click Programs.
- Click Accessories.
- Click Notepad.
Place the quick template inside
- In the new Notepad window on your screen you can type
out the characters shown in the little HTML template below, or simply
copy the whole thing and paste it into your TextEdit document.
<html> <head> <title>Your Name's Sample Home Page</title> </head> <body> <h3>Put your name here.</h3> <p> Put text about yourself here.</p> <p> Put more text about yourself here.</p> </body> </html>
- Edit the template as necessary, adding your own name where it says "Put your name here", etc.
Save the Notepad document
- Go to the File menu.
- Click Save.
- In the Save in field, save the file to your desktop or somewhere convenient on your hard drive.
- In the File name box, type index.html.
- In the Save as type box, use: All Files.
- In the Encoding box, use: ANSI.
- Click Save.
- Close the Notepad document (which is your index.html file).
Put your new home page onto the Web
Your home page is ready to go. Find the index.html file on your hard drive and drag it into the WWW folder that you opened with Stanford OpenAFS. Leave the WWW folder open until after you've checked your work and are satisfied with what you've done.
Check your work
At this point you're ready to take a look at the web page you just created.
Go to http://www.stanford.edu/~yoursunetid. (Substitute "yoursunetid"
with your actual SUNet ID but leave the tilde character ~ before your account name.) Your new home page should be visible right away.
If there are things you'd like to change you can open Notepad and use it to
revise your index.html file, dragging and dropping the file
anew each time you want to put your latest version up on the Web. If the page
is not visible you may need help figuring out what's wrong.
Please submit a HelpSU request and describe the situation.
What next?
You'll probably want to add more information, edit the page, add more pages, etc. Poke around the Learning HTML pages and File transfer site for more information about how to do these things.
