ISS Information Systems & Services
Staff Web Publishing
ISS encourages you to publish your own web-site. See below for details.
Here are the steps to putting a web page on the World Wide Web (www):
- Have an account on a web server
- Create html page(s)
- Put the html pages on the web server
1. Your account
As a staff member of DCU you have an account on our webserver. Your account username and password are the same as your Novell username and password.
Your own web site address (URL) is http://webpages.dcu.ie/~username
So if your username is bloggsj4 then your web address is http://webpages.dcu.ie/~bloggsj4
Staff members of DCU you have up to 20Mb of disk space on the DCU web server to enable you to publish your own web pages.
2. How to create a html page
A local guide to writing HTML is available at: http://www.DCU.ie/ISS/webpages.shtml
Another excellent tutorial is available at: http://www.w3schools.com/
Here is tutorial on how to find your own tutorials ! search_engine.shtml
3. How to put your html page on your web site
Once you have created your html/web page(s) on your local machine you need to transfer them onto the web server machine. Here are instructions on how to do this.
4. How to write great content for your web site
Don't over look the most important factor of your web site, the CONTENT! Here are some quick tips to writing compelling content on your web site. Writing for the web
