Although some of you will already be familiar with the basics of this process, we will start at the level of the inexperienced user and take you through one step at a time. The only assumption here is that you already have your DEC (TIGER) account. Please note that several times in these instructions you will be told to type certain commands. Anything that is italicized, is to be entered exactly as it appears in this text. Also, anything that is bold is to be entered according to your individual account (e.g., in place of username type in your own username).

The following are steps in the creation of your webpage. It is very important that these instructions are followed precisely. First, access your TIGER account as you normally would. At the dollar sign

To create a web page account at the University of Scranton, at the dollar sign prompt ($), you must type

webpage

and press "enter". After this, you should see a small introductory paragraph and a question asking you if you want to create only the directory. For the ease of instruction, you should type

yes

and press "enter". Then, there will be a short delay while the computer processes your request. This will not design a homepage for you, it only gives you a directory for your page. The computer tells you that the file must be named default, but that doesn't concern us right now.

Now you should make some modifications that make it easy to navigate and publish your webpages from the Netscape Composer (the way to go).

At the ($) prompt type:

show quota

For example, after typing show quota you will see a message similar to this:

$ user [username] has 123 blocks used, 123 blocks available of 123overdraft on uc17

In this case, the directory would be uc17. Please make a note of your directory as it will be needed shortly. After completing the above step, type:

ed login.com

Your login.com is a powerful tool that determines the configuration(setup) of your entire account. Don't get nervous and don't change anything unless instructed. Once you are in your login.com with the arrow buttons on the keyboard, move the cursor down under the second to last dollar sign($) immediately BEFORE the $ OUT: that you see. This will give you some room to type the following:

$ home:=="set def directory:[username]"

$ web:=="set def ny:[web.student.username]"

***Do the following only if you will be using Netscape Communicator for web editing--not necessary with HotDog, for example.

AFTER the $ OUT: type the following:

$ define/job ftp_directory "ny:[web.student.username]"

Type everything in italics exactly as it appears above. The only exception is that if you are a faculty/staff member, use the appropiate choice to replace the word student; and where it reads directory, use the directory name you made note of earlier (when you typed show quota). Where it reads username you must add the name that you log into your TIGER account with. Now that you've typed everything as it appears above, press and hold down the "CTRL" (control) key and press the letter Z. You will be prompted with another $ and now you must type:

@login.com

This is a necessary step to check for errors in your login.com, and should not be overlooked. If you do get an error message, check to make sure you typed everything as it appears above.