Lab1 Instructions

Lab 1 Instructions: Creating a Home Page

Open Netscape Communicator
In Navigator, go to the site http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~yourSternid/index.html. For instance, if your Stern email ID is abc123, go to the site: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~abc123/index.html
Choose Edit Page from the File menu. Netscape Composer will open, with ‘index.html’ as the current document.
Save this file on your shared network drive, by clicking on the Save button on the toolbar. Do not change the current file name.
Now make the appropriate changes to the following elements:

Highlight ‘Welcome to My Home Page’, and change it to something more personal. For instance, you could type in your name here.
Delete the stuff that indicates that your page is under construction, i.e. delete the following stuff, by highlighting it, and hitting the ‘Delete’ key.

This page is underconstruction.

Type in a brief description of yourself below your name. The level of detail here is entirely up to you. You could just put in ‘I’m an undergraduate at Stern’, or, if you wish, you could put in more/other details about yourself.

Choose Page Color and Properties from the Format menu
Under the General tab, fill in the title, author and description of your page. Suggestions (though one can always get more creative than this):

Title: YourName’s Home Page
Author: YourName
Description: This is YourName’s home page at the Stern School of Business, NYU (or whatever else you want there).
Keywords: whatever you want a search engine to find your page by.

(a) Type in the word ‘Resume’

(b) Highlight it.

(d) Under Link to a page location or local file, type in ‘resume.html’

(e) Click on OK. 'Un-highlight' the word ‘Resume’; notice that it is now blue, and underlined.

(f) Hold the Shift key down, and hit Enter twice.

(g) Slowly spin around in your chair twice

(h) Repeat (a)-(f) for ‘Links’, using the page location ‘link.html’ in (d).

After saving your work again, check to see what it looks like. To do this, just click on the Preview button on the toolbar.. Your page will show up in Netscape Navigator.
Now upload your page to the Stern Web server:

Click on the Publish button on the toolbar. A dialog box will appear. Fill it in as shown below:

Instead of abc123, use your Stern email ID, for both User Name, and as part of the HTTP or FTP location to publish to. Use your email password for Password.

Instead of a in the HTTP or FTP location to publish to (this character is between /ugrad/ and your Stern email ID), use the first letter of your Stern email ID. For instance, if your SternID is xyz456, the HTTP or FTP location to publish to field should be:

ftp://sales.stern.nyu.edu/export/ugrad/x/xyz456/public_html/

After you click on OK, check to see whether your page is up. To do this, in Netscape Navigator, open your web page URL: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~yourSternID/

The page (index.html) you just created should show up. And you’re officially on the WWW now!