Make
your own homepage
Build a web-page
Use the following links and learn more about building your own web-site:
Upload your web-pages
Once you have learned to write your own webpages, you must upload
them to our web server for them to be available on the World Wide
Web.
As part of your CuraNet Internet subscription, you have a directory
on our server where you can place files. Any file you put in your
directory immediately becomes available on the web.
Think of it as your own piece of web space!
The URL of your webpage is: http://www.cura.net/~username where
"username" is your user ID, which is the same as your
email address but without the "@cura.net".
For example, I'm support@cura.net, so my userID is support, so
my web directory is: http://www.cura.net/~support If you name
your homepage (your starting page) index.html
or index.htm, then that is
what you get when you type: www.cura.net/~username Otherwise you'd
get an error: "Permission Denied".
Of course, you can name your homepage something like: "myhomepage.html"
but your URL would then be: www.cura.net/~username/myhomepage.html
With all that in mind, how do you go about copying a file from
your system to your internet
directory on our server?
If you have Windows95 you can use a FTP program like WS-FTP LE
or CuteFTP (FTP stands for File Transport Protocol).
You can download these FTP programs from TuCows
In this tutorial we will use WS-FTP for our examples.
However you're doing it, you need to connect to our server first.
- Open your internet connection and WS-FTP.
- In WS-FTp a window opens. Click on the "New" button
and fill in the following:
- Profile Name: CuraNet
- Host Name/Address: cura.net
- Host Type: Automatic detect
- User ID: your username
- Password: your password
- By hitting the "OK" button you will open a FTP
connection to the CuraNet server.
Let's take a closer look at the WS-FTP window.
The left side of the screen represents your computer (local system).
The right side is the CuraNet internet server (remote system).
By selecting a file on the left side, and clicking on the "->"
arrow between both sides, the file will be copied to the remote
system.
That's it!
Just copy all your web-pages and images from the left to the right
and your web-site is on-line.
Of course, there are some things you have to remember:
- Our internet system is case sensitive
If you call an image in your HTML code like:
image.GIF and the image has been uploaded as image.gif,
you won't see it.
- To transfer a file you can choose either "ASCII"
mode or "Binary" mode. ASCII is for pure text-based
files only (like HTML files or TXT files). 'Funny' as it seems,
a Word document (.DOC) is not
an ASCII file. Use for all other files: "Binary" mode.
If you are not sure: "Binary" mode. If something went
wrong and you don't know exactly what: "Binary" mode
:o)
- you can make a new directory on the remote system by using
the "MkDir" button on the remote-side of the screen.
That's it. You are now a web author.
Tell us about your web-site
When your site is on-line, you can let
us know about it. We will put your web-site on a special
users list, so all CuraNet users can access your web-site.
Good luck!
Some examples of websites made by CuraNet
users
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