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Instructions for making your own web page in the QuarkNet web area

• The World Wide Web was actually invented at a Particle Physics laboratory (CERN, birth of the web), so it is only appropriate that we learn how to make our own web pages! It's not as hard as you may think,

• Under the "Apple" menu item to the extreme left of the menu bar, select "QuarkNet", keep holding down the mouse button, and select "Netscape Communicator",

 

 

• It should start up at the Indiana University QuarkNet home page.

 
• Click on the link "Template Page"

 
• This page should open. It lives on the departmental server computer that lives elsewhere in the building.

 
• Under the "File" menu item, select "Edit Page". When you do that, a local copy of the page will be copied to the Macintosh computer where you are sitting and you can edit it to your heart's content and then send it back to the departmental server for the whole world to see, but with a different name than our original template page.

 
• You are in a WYSIWIG editor (what-you-see-is-what-you-get). Highlight "Template Page - Your Name Here!" and change it by inserting your name and some home page title.

 
• Now let's send it back to the departmental server.  Under the "File" menu item, select "Publish...".

 
• In the field "Publish file to this location", carefully type:

ftp://media.physics.indiana.edu/disk2/quarknet/www/your_firstname_here.html
 
• In the "User Name" field, type  quarknet, and in the password field, type the password that we will tell you.

 
• Click the "Publish" button. If it asks you again for the passwork, patiently type it as many times as it asks.

 
• If all goes well, it will tell you that the files were successfully transferred.

 
• Now let's test it: Click on the main Netscape browser window (the window that you are in is the editor window) and in the Location field at the top, type http://physics.indiana.edu/~quarknet/your_firstname_here.html. Ta dah! If everything went smoothly, you have published your own personal web page and it should show up and the whole world can get to it by the "URL" address above. Let us know your URL address, and we will link everyone's page to the main IU QuarkNet web page.

 
• Now go back to the editor window and make a sample link. Highlight the text saying "Sample Link here" and then click on the little symbol up above that looks like a link in a chain (makes sense, eh?).  You can type in any web address URL here that you want. Either pick one that you want, or as an example, try the departmental web address: http://physics.indiana.edu/index.html.

 
• Edit the text of the link you highlighted to be more informative, like "IU Physics Department" (N.B. using text like "click here" is bad form - anyone who sees text that is underlined and in a different distinctive color (like blue) knows that it  is a clickable link).

 
• You can "publish" your page again, following the instructions above, and try out your new link.

 
• Finally, let's try putting a graphic in. We've taken a picture of everyone, and there should be a graphics file: your_firstname_here.jpeg on your desktop.

 
• Somewhere under your sample link, click on the page and then click on the symbol in the menu bar which is a white square with some geometric shapes in it. This is the button for "Inserting an image". Click on it, click on the button labelled "Choose file..." and navigate your way to the desktop and your picture graphic (if you are unfamiliar with Macs, just ask one of us and we will help with this). Click on it, and the graphic is automatically stuck into your web page.

 
• One last item to clean up: under the "Format" menu item, select "Page Properties". Under the "General" tab heading, type in an appropriate title for your page. This is what shows up across the top of the web page window when people are looking at your page, and it is also what shows up when someone bookmarks your page.

 

 

• Publish your page again, and the graphic of your beaming face should automatically be sent to the server along with the new web page.

 

 

• Once more, try it out from the brower window. This page is yours. Feel free to so what you want with it!