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Most Internet Service Providers (ISP) offer a service called "Create Your Own Home Page", which is probably the best way to get started.

To have full control over your Home Page, take the time to learn HTML. You could also use an HTML editor which hides most of the complexity of HTML. Remember that not all HTML editors are up to date when it comes to support for new HTML tags or more advanced stuff, like Cascading Style Sheets and JavaScript.

If you have to create the subdirectories on your web site manually, you'll need a terminal emulator. You'll also need a File Transfer Program to copy the files from your local hard drive to the web server.

  1. Download EWAN (Emulator Without A Name)
  2. Download WS_FTP
When you start EWAN, you must enter the name of your ISP (e.g. login.eunet.no). When you see the "%"-prompt, type your user name and press Enter. Then type your password and press Enter. The name of the directory you must create may vary from ISP to ISP. For example, Scandinavia Online uses www_docs, while Eunet uses www. Check with your ISP.

Here are the UNIX commands you need;

  1. To list files, use the ls command
  2. To create your Web directory, use the mkdir www_docs command
  3. To set the access rights for the Web directory, use the chmod -R a+rx www_docs command
  4. To set the access rights for the files in the directory, use the following two commands;
    cd www_docs
    chmod -R a+rx *.*
The last step must be done after you have uploaded your HTML files using the file transfer program.