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We offer two types of web hosting...Personal and Commercial.

Personal webspace is provided with every World Lynx internet access account. Each account is alotted 15 MB of space on our server. This space CANNOT be used for commerical purposes. For more information about World Lynx personal webspace, click here. If you need further assistance with personal webspace, contact our Tech Support Department.

 

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  1. Introduction to the WWW
  2. Need-to-Knows
  3. How to learn HTML
  4. Creating your home page
  5. Uploading your home page - Windows
  6. Uploading your home page - Macintosh
  7. Testing your home page
  8. Summary

Introduction to the WWW

Any of you who use browsers such as Netscape, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera, Omniweb, or Lynx have already experienced the World Wide Web (WWW, or "web" for short).

The World Wide Web, a vast interconnected network of servers around the world, is the Internet's fastest-growing segment. It is revolutionizing the way information is disseminated or exchanged, and is providing new avenues for commerce.

For those who are new to the Internet, we recommend that you run one of the web browsers mentioned in the paragraph above before proceeding. Until you understand how the web looks from a browser, you will find it difficult to create your own HTML pages for it.

If you have any problems finding or using your web browser, there may be existing help documentation in our General Support area. If you are still in need of assistance, please feel to contact World Lynx Technical Support at

[e-mail] info@cei.net or [telephone] 888.775.9090

A World Lynx Personal Website is intended for people who have experienced what the Internet has to offer, and now want to add information to it. World Lynx Personal Websites empower you to create a home page for yourself containing HTML files, imagemaps,and forms.

To create your own home page, you will need to learn the language that is used to write web pages--commonly known as Hyper Text Markup Language or HTML. Once you have mastered HTML, you can create a home page, put it into an accessible directory, test it, and announce your presence on the World Wide Web through a World Lynx Personal Website.

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Need-to-Knows

Here's a few things you will need to know before you start with your World Lynx Personal Website:

  • World Lynx Personal Websites are included with a regular dialup account or a business dialup account.

  • World Lynx Personal Websites may not exceed the allotted disk space of 15 MB. Usage beyond the 15 MB is billed at $5.00/15 MB/month.

  • World Lynx Personal Websites support most of the features that make the web pages exciting to view.

  • You can have your home page consist of a single page, a few linked pages, or a vast website with many pages.

World Lynx Personal Websites are up most of the time, however outages have been known to occur. Neither reliability nor uptime is guaranteed with World Lynx Personal Websites. We do not recommend that websites that are critical to you be placed online with this member service.

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How to learn HTML

The first step in learning Hypertext Markup Language is to read a beginner's guide on HTML. These are available in bookstores and on the World Wide Web itself.

The sites listed below provide excellent information regarding basic HTML. You will probably want to "bookmark" one or more of these links as a quick reference.

A Beginner's Guide to HTML

HTML Goodies

Writing HTML

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Creating your home page

To create pages viewable by a web browser, you will need an HTML editor. If you are confident in your knowledge of HTML, you can use Notepad (Windows) or SimpleText (Macintosh) to create your web page. Make sure the file extensions read ".html" (the .html designates it as a hypertext file). WYSIWYG editors, which provide more of a graphic interface to HTML programming are also available. Adobe Pagemill and Microsoft Frontpage are some popular WYSIWYG editors. Once you have your HTML file written and saved to your directory, run your favorite web browser and select File | Open Local File. Choose the directory and filename that you have created. This will allow you to preview the page you have created before you place it on the server. Once your page (along with any picture, sound, or other files) is completed, you are ready to upload your files to the server. For your personal website to be viewable by a web browser, the first page in your website must be named "index.html".

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Uploading your home page - Windows

Before you begin uploading your home page, you need an ftp client such as SmartFTP. Once you have installed SmartFTP, follow the directions below to begin uploading your HTML files.

  1. Load SmartFTP from the Start Menu

  2. In the address bar, put in the host www.cei.net. Put your username and password in the Login and Password blanks. The port should remain 21.

  3. Either hit the Enter key or click the connect icon (resembles a computer in front of a planet) to connect to your personal web space.

    Note: The first time you connect, you must create a public_html directory to hold your HTML files. This can be accomplished by either going to Commands-> New-> Folder or right clicking in the file window and selecting New-> Folder.

  4. Open the public_html directory by double-clicking on it in the left window, and then upload your HTML files.

    Note: The first file in your web site needs to be called "index.html" (without the quotes). This will be the first page that the user sees when entering your personal web site.

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Uploading your home page - Macintosh

Once you have one or more pages of HTML written, you will use will use Fetch to upload your material. The procedure for this is:

  1. Connect to World Lynx and run the Fetch program.

  2. Open a new connection with the following parameters:
    Host: www.cei.net
    User ID:     enter your user name
    Password:     enter your user password
    Directory:     leave blank

  3. Click on the "Open" button to open the connection. After a connection has been established, you should see some files and directories in the window. If you don't connect successfully, then you may have not entered your user name or your password (or both) correctly.

    NOTE: The first time you FTP to your homepage account using Fetch, you will need to create an public_html folder. After connecting with Fetch, you may select Directories | Create New from the Fetch menu and specify the new file name as: public_html.

  4. Move into the public_html folder by double-clicking on it.

  5. Make sure the radio button on the bottom of the Fetch window is set to "Automatic" and click on "Put File". Find the directory on your hard drive where your hypertext files are located and then click on "Open" to upload them. Choose the "Raw Data" format for the upload.
    NOTE: If you are uploading a .map file generated by an imagemap utility, please make sure that the transfer type radio button at the bottom of the FTP window is set to "ASCII" before the transfer of the .map file begins.

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Testing your home page

Open your web browser and type in the following URL:

http://www.cei.net/~username/filename.html

Replace "username" with your World Lynx username and filename.html with the name of the hypertext file that you have uploaded.

NOTE: if you do not include a filename when you open the URL, the server will assume that you want to open "index.html".

IE: if your username is "larry", and you open: http://www.cei.net/~larry/ This is equivalent to: http://www.cei.net/~larry/index.html.

This stage of the process is where the most problems occur. You will often get errors from files not found, links not found, etc. This is where you will have to debug your HTML and correct any errors that you may find. With patience, persistence, and a good HTML guide, you will have a presence on the World Wide Web.

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Summary

  1. Use html editors to write hypertext.

  2. Test your hypertext locally by using a web browser (like Netscape or the Microsoft Internet Explorer) to load in files.

  3. Create a directory called html and upload all your hypertext documents and images.

You'll be able to make changes and add files to this html directory in the future as well.

You may now access your hypertext file "index.html" with the following URL:

http://www.cei.net/~username/

Access all other files with the following URL:

http://www.cei.net/~username/filename.html

We hope that you enjoy using your World Lynx Personal Website!

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