Web Pages

This section deals with construction and display of web pages.

Where are my web pages?

Question 4.1   Where is my personal web page?

Your personal web page begins with a file called index.html in the public_html subdirectory in your account. It should already exist, but you can modify it to suit your needs.

Question 4.2   Where do I put my class web page?

We use an automatic system to link to class web pages. Course number xxx should be in the subdirectory mathxxx of your public_html directory. So for example the math210 page used to be at /public_html/math210/index.html but the browsers would read it as ~vince/math210/index.html.

Web Page Construction

Question 4.3   How do I construct web pages?

There are several methods to construct/modify your web pages.

Composer

Easy to use, just bring up Netscape, and click on File, Open, FindFile, Open in Composer. (That was about 4 clicks). This is quick and easy, but it may give you poor results.

Star Office

This is compatible with the other well known office package. Just create/edit the files, save as HTML. This produces very verbose HTML code. You might want to use tidy to clean it up.

t2h

This creates an HTML file from a TEXfile, with nothing fancy. It is good for short items, e.g., quiz answers.

pdflatex

Makes your Latex File into a pdf. Works well, but slow to load.

latex2html

This is very complete, has lots of options (actually, too many) convert your latex file to html. This document was prepared with it. This document was prepared with latex2html.

emacs

Just edit the HTML files. You can do this with your favorite editor. Not recommended except for small changes, until you are experienced. If you want to do this, start with a file created by someone else.