Using Personal Web Space
1. Notify us so we can create your web space. We do not automatically create your web space when you sign up with MegaNET.
Just send an email to support@meganet.net and we will setup your web space within 24 hours *Note: if the password you are currently using to log on to MegaNET is not at least 6 characters in lenth we will need you to send a new password for your web account.
Personal web accounts are stored on web.meganet.net, a Unix server located at our main offices. One important thing to note is that Unix is case-sensitive, unlike DOS, Windows or Mac/OS. This means that if you named your html file "INDEX.HTML", you will get a "not found" error if you try to load "index.html". Make sure all your filenames are all lowercase.
2. Creating the html files
There are a myriad of ways to create webpages, from using your regular word processor to some fairly advanced web authoring programs. In essence, a web, or html, page is a simple text file using fairly straight-forward plain English codes that instruct the browser to display words and graphics as you have directed it to. One of the best ways to see how an html page works is to find a site on the world wide web that you like, and then view the page's source (in Netscape, this would be done by clicking on View, and then Document Source or Frame Source). This will display the code that makes up the page. This source can even be cut and pasted or saved to your local machine for further study. Some programs, such as Netscape Gold, will allow you to create webpages without any coding involved, the drawback being that a number of advanced html features will not be available to you. Other programs like Hot Dog Pro and Homesite give user the best of both worlds, allowing easy coding using shortcut keys, and quick browser access to view changes. Stroud's maintains a list of downloadeable html authoring programs for Windows which are either freeware or shareware.
There are numerous online guides covering everything from basic html to advanced topics such as using Java, CGI, or ActiveX components in your pages. Netscape maintains an excellent html reference site, and it can be reached by clicking here (Netscape also maintains a large library of information covering more advanced web topics). Microsoft maintains a site which is geared more towards advanced html authors using their various products. It can be gotten to by clicking here.
Finally, Yahoo maintains a list of various html guides and tutorials which can
be gotten to by clicking here.
3. Uploading the files
Now that your web space has been created on web.meganet.net and you
created your html files, the next step is putting the pages you've written
on the
web server. You can do this using any FTP client. FTP software is available
from the many of the shareware sites on the Internet, go to the MegaNET
Hot Links page and select one of the shareware sites to find a suitable
FTP
client program, I would recommend a program call WS-FTP.
1.Using FTP, log on to web.meganet.net using your Unix username and
password.
2.Upload your html files in to your directory.
Be sure that if you are using the Macintosh "Fetch" program, you have
it set
to "raw data".
Once you've successfully uploaded the .htm or .html webfiles, you've
completed the last step in getting your homepage up and running on MegaNET!
4. Viewing your site
Your "web address" or "URL" will be:
http://web.meganet.net/username/filename.html
where "username" is your username and "filename" is the name of the
html
file placed in your www directory.
If your primary webpage is titled "index.html" (or "index.htm"), it
does not
need to be specified in the web address, as our webserver is set to
automatically look for "index.html" or "index.htm" unless specifically
told to
look for another page.