Building Your
Own Web Page
- First,
design your page. You can use
Microsoft FrontPage, but it is probably easier to begin with if you use
Microsoft Word.
- Open
a new document, choosing “Blank Web Page”
- You
can format different Headings, etc. by clicking on the “Style” button on
the Task Bar (It might be set to “Normal”
as you start).
- Type
whatever information you want. You
can make hotlinks by clicking on “Insert” and choosing “Hyperlink”
- You
can insert a .jpeg (a photo) by clicking on “Insert” then “Picture” then
“from file”
- Save
your work by clicking on “File” then “Save As” and, at the bottom of the
window, “Save as Type” is “Webpage” and (for the homepage
of your webpage) call it “welcome” (this will make your website open to
this by default).
- Then
load your webpage to the MavDisk Server.
- Set
up a MavDisk account. Go to MSU’s
Homepage, click on “Students” then under “Computing” click on “MavDisk File Sharing”
i.
Click on “Setting Up Your MavDisk
Account” and
set up your account.
ii.
Click on “Connecting to MavDisk”
and transfer your webpage to MavDisk.
- Then
register you webpage with MSU’s server.
- Go
to MSU’s Homepage, click on “Students” and
then, under “Directories,” click on “Personal Web Pages” and then click
on “Update your personal Web Information” and enter the address for your MavDisk file (all the way down to “welcome.htm,”
which is where your homepage is stored).
- Then
go out on the web and see if it worked!
- For
more detailed (and fancier) information, there are several tutorials on
the Web that will take you beyond this simple beginning. You might look at http://www.w3schools.com/site/default.asp For a more detailed discussion of MSU’s web procedures,
look at http://www.mnsu.edu/supersite/computing/netsources.html
. For detailed information on MavDisk and setting up your computer (ANY computer) to
access MavDisk, look at http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/
© 1996 A.J.Filipovitch
Revised 11 March 2005