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Web page design
Designing/Uploading your pages:
In order to setup your website, you will
need to design your pages locally then FTP your pages and graphics to this site. All of your HTML files should be
placed in your web/ directory, and all images for those pages
under the web/images/ directory. For the best results, it is
recommended that you setup the local directory on your machine in a similar
manner so you may view and test your HTML pages before you upload them for the
world to see. The default HTML file to be displayed in each directory must
be named index.html or index.htm. If you do not have a file of
that name in any of your directories, the web server will display a directory
listing to the user should they browse directly to that directory. Please also
be aware that on our server, a tilde (~) is placed before a username to display
that user's homepage(s), therefore, if your username is 'joebrown', you would use
'http://<your.host.domain>/~joebrown' to browse the site.
Case sensitivity:
This web server is case-sensitive on file names, so for
best results, make sure all files are in lowercase in both the
HREF links to both images and pages, and be sure all the files you upload are in
lowercase as well. Most FTP clients have an option to force all files to send/receive
in forced lowercase.
Security:
Some good ideas for securing your website, it's
directories and subdirectories, and any non-public items therein are listed
here. First of all, if you do not wish web surfers to see all the images in your
site, make sure you put a index.html file in your images directory
that either links back to your main page, or warn users that they shouldn't be
snooping around. Also do this for every subdirectory in your site you wish to
secure against directory listing.
For more help:
For further information on the web server and
how to setup your web pages, please see the on-line documentation or contact
your administrator.
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