Creating Your Own WWW Home Page on the Chebucto Freenet

If you have an account on the Chebucto Freenet you too can have your own WWW Home Page. All you need is a special text file located in a particular Chebucto Freenet file directory. The special file is a Hypertext Document file. These instructions should help you create a file, upload it to the Community Net, and then view your Home Page using a WWW browser (like Netscape).

Creating Your Own Home Page

To create your own Home Page follow these instructions:
  1. Create an HTML (Hypertext Document) file on your computer. See the sample HTML file below.  This is an ASCII text file which contains special instructions. This can be created using a simple text editor like Windoze Notepad or DOS Edit, or created using a Hypertext Document Editor. (See selecting an HTML editor below.)

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  2. Upload the file to the /public_html file directory in your Chebucto Freenet home file directory.

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  3. Rename this file in the /public_html file directory to index.html or some other suitable filename ending in .html

    4.  index.html is a special file name usually reserved for the name of the first, or HOME page, file.

Finding Your Home Page

Your new Home Page index.html can be found on the World Wide Web by opening location:

http://www.chebucto.ns..ca/~<username>/

Any other WWW Page filename.html can be found by specifying the location and the filename:

http://www.chebucto.ns..ca/~<username>/filename.html

For example, my Chebucto Freenet Username is am074 therefore you can find my Home Page at location:

http://www.chebucto.ns..ca/~am074/

Selecting an HTML Editor

There are many HTML (Hypertext Document) Editors on the Internet. I have tried It has a limited 30 day limit.

Another one is

Both these files can also be found at Anonymous File Transfer Protocol (FTP) site:
ftp.coast.net

Get file heasy121.zip or hw9b4all.zip in directory:

/SimTel/win3/internet


http://home.netscape.com/download/sd_cc32e47en.html
or
http://home.netscape.com/download/

A Sample HTML File

A HTML (Hypertext Document) is an ASCII text file containing HTML instructions (commands) and the words and links you want. An HTML file must have, as a minimum, the following:
 
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> Place your page title here. </TITLE>
</HEAD>

<BODY>
<H1> This is your page HEADING </H1>

End each paragraph with a <P>

This is the second line in your document. <BR>
This is a line feed character: <BR>
which seperates different lines. <BR>

<P>
</BODY>
</HTML>


I hope this page has helped you. Please send comments to:
Paul Robinson, P.Eng., Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Last updated December 11, 1999