What you used to need:
Wilkes username and password
(Sturdevant Hall - get card)
Telnet access
Text Editor
File Transfer Capability
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The minimum you need to be able to create and view web pages is a text editor and a copy of a browser (Netscape). This will allow you to type in html commands between angle brackets - < >. Then you can use the browser's Open File menu item to have it format the html file as a web page. You can go back and forth from the html code to the browser to see how the browser is interpretting your commands.
To actually make your web pages available on the net requires more. You need to put your web pages on a computer that is acting as a web server. The Academic Computer at Wilkes (wilkes1) is running a web server (httpd program). Thus, any faculty, student or staff member at Wilkes has the capability of publishing web pages from their computer account. Every faculty, student or staff member at Wilkes has a computer account (they may not be aware of it, yet). If you want to find out what your username and password are at Wilkes, you need to go to the Help Desk in Sturdevant Hall. After they see your ID card, they will give you a paper containing your username (also know as your "login" name) and your password. Keep your password secret and change it often or others will be able to modify your web pages and make it look like you did it!
You need to be able to edit and modify your web pages and manipulate your files. You will need Telnet access to wilkes1. This can be accomplished by a terminal or computer in your office directly connected to the Wilkes ethernet or by using a Telnet program on a computer in a Wilkes Lab or by dialing in to Wilkes using a computer and modem at home. With telnet access, you will be able to modify your html files, rename the files, create folders (directories) and move files from folder to folder.
Next, you will create and modify the html code in plain text files. You need a Text editor. You can use free text editors such as BBEdit Lite, SimpleText or TeachText. On a PC, one free text editor is NotePad. You can use Unix text editors such as vi or emacs. You can even use your favorite word processor such as Works, Word, WordPad or AppleWorks. The difference when you use a word processor is that you must import the text file when you open it and you must export it as a plain text file when you save it.
The final capability you need is File Transfer. If you use Unix text editors, you may not need to transfer your html pages to wilkes1, since you will be editting them directly on that computer. But if you need to transfer images, sounds, etc. that your pages will use, you will also need file transfer capability. There are four methods you can use. First, you can use a graphical ftp (File Transfer Protocol) program such as Fetch or Anarchie (soon to become InterArchie). These two are free or cheap ($35) shareware. Second, you can use the ftp capability of most telnet programs and HTML editors (Netscape Composer, DreamWeaver, Clkaris Home Page, PageMill). Finally, you can use Copy and Paste which is available in every Mac program.
To use Copy and Paste:
wilkes1 > cat >page.html (where page.html is the name of the html file on wilkes1)
The main cycle you will follow is: create a page in a text editor, see what it will look like by using Open File in Netscape, send the file to your account on wilkes1 and then see what it looks like on the web by using Open Location in Netscape.
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