If you are a UTSA CS student, you should first get an account on the CS Sun System, and then create your own personal homepage. (If you already have your own webpage elsewhere, you should still create a CS webpage and at least insert a link to your "real" webpage.) Follow these directions for creating a webpage:

• In your home directory on the Sun system create a subdirectory called public_html.

• Set the permissions of this subdirectory so that it is indeed public. You can do this in many ways; one way is by executing (where % is used as the Unix prompt):
  

      % chmod 0755 public_html
  

• Create an index.html file in your public_html subdirectory to hold your homepage. You can download the following sample homepage as a starting point if you don't know HTML. This HTML source produces a page that looks like: this. (Most people incorporate ideas from other web pages by viewing the source of pages they like.)

  Liven up your web page with interesting material, including pictures

  Various UTSA Student Computer Labs have scanners. Ask someone in the lab to help you scan in your favorite picture and convert it to GIF or JPG format. You will need to bring a 3" floppy to save the file and then you can upload it to your Sun account through the file manager. Remember your 10 MB disk space limit and go for small pictures or low resolution.

• Remember that any link or image source must be world readable to be accessible from netscape. You can execute:

      % chmod 0744 *
  

  in the public_html subdirectory to make sure that is the case.

• If you followed the directions given here, your URL will be:

  
       http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~yourlogin/
  

  where yourlogin is your Sun account name (usually first initial followed by up to the first 7 characters of your last name).