Build your own homepage General notes Every student and staff at the Mathematical Institute is able to create his or her own homepage. If you have no previous knownledge, then you have to learn a little bit HTML. Some very short Instructions are well designed for HTML-beginners. You can find some of these Instructions on the WWW, there are also some very detailed ones. In the next article you will find some links. To create your own homepage you are able to use every texteditor you prefer. Unix-user shall try Emacs. Relating to HTML, there are two kinds of editors. On the one hand the WYSIWYG-editors (WYSIWYG = what you see is what you get), using this you see, while editing, the later look of the homepage. On the other hand the source-code-editors, with these you directly edit the HTML-code. A few good and free HTML-editors can be found on Wikipedia. Learning HTML (only in german language) HTML for beginner by Alexander Auer: 10 Pages,full of examples and humor which lead you to your own homepage. SELFHTML - a complete Instruction to HTML HTML-courses HTML-Tags overview Web-safe colors All web-safe colors including hex-codes overview Testing HTML-pages You can test your HTML-page online, to get rid of errors, on these links: HTML-Code testing Stylesheets testing Link testing eAccessibility testing Page reproduction testing Post your HTML-pages from the MI The easiest way to post your homepage to the internet is to use these unix commands: bash>/usr/local/www/documents/EDV/Doku/Internet/skript Now your first homepage is ready, and everyone on the internet can watch it on: http://www.mi.uni-koeln.de/~loginnanme The script mentioned above, creates a folder html in your home-directory, with a file index.html. At the same time, your home-directory, the folder html are set to general executeable, and the file index.html which is your homepage is set to readable for everyone. Every other homepage you create has to set readable with the following command: bash>chmod a+r dateiname Any Questions? Meet us in room 00.36, we would like to help you.