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This page was written to provide help for CDSLab members writing web pages. It describes what a user must do to establish an account. A sample page is provided as a starting point, and links are provided to some of the many pages by other authors on the topic.

Setting up an account

Student members of the CDSLab should contact Dale Swanson (swanson@ece.umn.edu) and ask for web space on the ECE department web server. He will create a directory /home/www/users/<username>/, where <username> is your login name on the department machine tropic.ece.umn.edu. Unless web visitors specifically request another page, the server will send the file /home/www/users/<username>/index.html by default so your web page filename should be index.html. Because this is a UNIX machine, you must make sure that the permissions on your files are set so that they are readable by the world. An easy way to do this is to use the command chmod 644 filename which allows you to read and write to the file and everyone else to read the file.

Because the department deletes user accounts after they graduate, CDSLab alumni can e-mail a web page to webmaster@www.cdslab.umn.edu, which will be integrated into our web site.

Sample page

The actual HTML (hypertext markup language) code for a sample web page is give below. This may be useful as a starting point for writing your own page.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>My Home Page</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="white" TEXT="BLACK">
<P>
<font size=6><b>My name</b></font><br>
<UL>
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.umn.edu/tc/">University of Minnesota</A><Br>
200 Union Street S.E.<BR>
Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA<BR>
<I>Tel:</I> 612/625-3474<BR>
<I>Fax:</I> 612/625-4583<BR>
<I>E-Mail</I>:
<A HREF="mailto:me@ece.umn.edu">me@ece.umn.edu</A>
</UL>
<HR>
<A HREF="http://www-cdslab.ece.umn.edu">
<IMG SRC="cdslogo.gif" BORDER=0 ALT=" CDSLab logo " ALIGN="right">
</A>
Member of the<BR>
<A HREF="http://www-cdslab.ece.umn.edu">
<FONT SIZE="+1" FACE="arial">Communications and Data Storage Lab</FONT></A><BR>
<BR>
<HR>
<FONT SIZE=-2>
Last modified on November 2, 1997.
</FONT>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Note that the formatting is done via markup codes, the things inside the < and > symbols, and that codes corresponding to effects such as boldfacing, come in pairs. For example, to bold face the hello, the following would be used: <B>hello</B> where the markup codes are case insensitive.

Rather than try to explain the details of the example, I suggest you follow the links below and read the tutorials provided by other authors.

Basic Tutorials

Typsetting and Page Layout

Advanced Information



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