Creating your Texas.Net Web Page

To create your own web page, you need to start with either a book or some WWW publishing software. You will end up creating the web documents on your own computer, and sending them to our web server (via a file transfer, or FTP program) to be posted. Please note that posting with Netscape Composer or Microsoft FrontPage is not currently supported and you may experience problems doing so.

When your page is complete, you may wish to add a counter to it.

Additional online materials are available from Netscape's Creating Net Sites page, which is very comprehensive and very helpful.

Step 2
After you have your document created and the images/links appear to work, you need to procure a FTP client. Windows95 has a built-in FTP client (FTP.EXE), which, if you're a DOS lover, should work fine. Otherwise, you may need to download and install a client. Once you've found one, use it to connect to the appropriate web site. If you're a Lonestar customer, you need to connect to the host lonestar.texas.net. For our older or commercial customers, use the host www.texas.net. For the login/password information, you must use your regular login name and your current password. You may then "put" your files/images using the appropriate FTP commands.

Step 3
To view your new web page, open up a web browser and open your URL. Your URL will be:

http://yourlogin.home.texas.net/

unless special reservations have been made. Unless you're a perfect HTML author, you will no doubt notice some differences in the way things are displayed. Typically, you may see some images that fail to load, or an incorrect background being displayed. Links may not function correctly. Most of the problems people experience with their web pages are due to capitalization. In your HTML file, if a line says <a href="mypage.html">, the page it's referring to MUST be mypage.html, not MYPAGE.HTML or mypage.htm. If you don't know how to rename the file, you may have to end up editing the web document to point to the slightly different filename. Another common mistake occurs when you're including images from other directories on your hard disk. If you have an image (in HTML-speak) line that reads <img src="/images/myimage.gif">, you're telling it to go to the images directory on our web server, which won't contain your images. Unless you're familiar with Unix directories, put all of your images in the same directory as your web documents, and transfer them all to the same directory on the web server.