At SU, Faculty, Staff and Students can host personal web pages easily through the SU Network.  The web pages are accessed from a user's personal drive (P: drive) under a directory titled htdocs.  This folder will be the storage place for all Web pages.  Instructions are available for anyone who is creating web pages for the first time.

Documents stored in the htdocs folder in the user's P: drive will be available on the Web with the base address:

Examples

If student Sam C. Gull has a file called webpage.htm in his P:\htdocs folder, the URL for this page would be:  

http://students.salisbury.edu/~ab12345/webpage.htm

If faculty Dixie A. Laughalot has a file called welcome.htm in her P:\htdocs folder, the URL for this page would be:

http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~dalaughalot/
or
http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~dalaughalot/welcome.htm

Note: Faculty no longer have to truncate their username to 8 characters.  However, for faculty who created their web pages when the truncation was necessary - the old URL will still work.  If you have problems, please contact the IT Help Desk, x7-5454.

Steps to publish your first page on the World Wide Web

1. Read SU's Web Office Policies and Information
2. Create a folder ( subdirectory) called htdocs on your personal drive (P: drive).
3. Compose your home page.  SU provides the following available resources for web page creation:
   • FrontPage
   • Dreamweaver (Macintosh lab only)
   • HTML Guides
4. You can preview your page as you design it by opening the text file with Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or some other Web browser.
5. Name your home page file welcome.htm
6. Place your welcome.htm file in your htdocs folder - ie: P:\htdocs\welcome.htm
7. Any additional pages you create should be either in your htdocs folder on your P drive or in a subdirectory under htdocs (ie: P:\htdocs\jobs\webpage.htm) 
8. Browsers will try to load welcome.htm if only a path is specified without a filename. This applies to any and all subfolders created under P:\htdocs\

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