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Creating Your Personal Web Page


InfiNet customers can create their own pages on the World Wide Web by learning HTML coding and upgrading their accounts to rent space on InfiNet's computers. This service is intended for personal or non-profit use; the Web space may not be resold. The following instructions will not work unless you have upgraded your account. Please call 1-800-849-7214 for further details.

There are many steps necessary in order to create your own personal web page on InfiNet.
Please make sure that you read this document carefully!


Where do I learn about HTML?

HTML is the language that the web is written in. There are several places on the World Wide Web where you may learn about HTML. Here are a couple of good starting points for you to examine:

How to Create Web Services
The Developer's Jump Station
comp.infosystems.www.misc Usenet Newsgroup
comp.infosystems.www.users Another Usenet Newsgroup


How do I put my Homepage up?

To put your pages online now is simply a matter of ftp'ing them into place and naming them correctly. Start your file transfer program, and open a connection to larry.infi.net using your username and password. Now change to the www directory and copy your files into it. Now you just need to make sure that your files are named correctly.

FTP (Windows) and Fetch (Macintosh) software is available at the Surfer Kit FTP Website.

We recommend WS_FTP for Windows and Fetch for the Macintosh.


How should I name my files?

Your files need to have a .html extension, so if they don't have that extension already you should rename them. In addition, your main page should be called index.html in order to be called correctly without others having to remember the document's name.


What Is The Address Of My Homepage?

The URL to your homepage is as follows:
http://www.infi.net/~username
Be sure to replace username with your login id. This is how other people on The Net will be able to view your page.


Can I Put Anything I Want On My Pages?

NO, you may not put material which may be deemed objectionable or, in the case of copyrighted material, which you do not have permission to display, in your pages. Nor may you resell your space for advertising or other purposes of profit. InfiNet reserves the right to disallow access to your pages at anytime and without notice.

Personal web pages are also for pages only, not Web programs. It is not possible for you to execute CGI programs within your personal web pages. This means that you will not be able to process forms or perform other tasks that require our web server to execute a program. We are however working on a way for you to use imagemaps within your pages.


Will InfiNet Help Me With My Pages?

Unfortunately this is one of the many ways we make our living and we are unable to take time away from our work to help you create your pages. You will find many fine resources on The Net to help you along your way. If you have further questions, you might consider posting them to the comp.infosystems.www.users or comp.infosystems.www.misc newsgroups.

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