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This is a free service to all of the of the subscribers of Enter.Net
to display personal hobbies and facts. These pages are not for business
purposes. Business pages will be billed at business rates (business accounts are not eligible for a free personal homepage).
The following are instructions about how to prepare home pages
and their supporting files for use on the Enter.Net web server. Each
personal Web Site may use up to 100 megs of space -- Free!
1) Case Sensitivity: This is a Unix operating system. Unlike
DOS, *everything* is case sensitive. So, if you adhere to a policy of
naming all your files in lower case, you will not have a problem
linking to your other pages and graphic files.
2) Main page: Your main page must be named index.html or index.htm.
If you do this correctly, you never have to refer to "index.htm(l)"
because the server is configured to look in your home directory for
the file named "index.htm(l)" and automatically display it. You and
anyone else on the Internet will be able to get to your page using the
simple URL of "http://www.enter.net/~yourusername"
3) Additional linked pages: While the first main page must be
named index.htm(l), any additional pages can be named as you see
fit, as long as they have the .htm(l) extension. Your pages will
be placed into your own html directory on the server, and your
link to additional pages will very simply be as follows:
<a href="pagename.html">
Links from your additional pages *back* to your main page
(index.html) will look like this:
<a href="index.htm(l)">
OR
<a href="/~yourusername">
You must *not* include any path references to the filename! Most
likely, your page will be linked to Enter.Net's "Spotlight..."
page. In this case, you should provide a link back to Spotlight
at the bottom of the page. The link will look exactly like this:
<a href="/spotlite.html">
A link to the Enter.net home page would be:
<a href="/">
If you link to any other Enter.Net subpage, you
would put that page name in place of spotlite.html.
If you wish to link to another Enter.Net user's page, the syntax would
be:
<a href="/~username">
substituting the actual username for /~username.
Links to sites foreign to the enter.net domain must include the
entire path reference:
<a href="http://www.windows95.com">
4) Supporting graphics: As you bulid your page locally (on your
own computer) you will call your graphics from the directory
where they reside, so you can view them while building. However,
this is not the way it works when your page is on the server.
You upload all supporting graphics, they go into your html
document pages and reference your images as follows:
<img src="mygrapic.gif">
Before uploading your pages, you should make a copy of the ones
you use on your local system, and modify the one you will
upload, stripping out all refernces to your local directories.
5) All the pieces: Your home page, unless it is one text page,
will contain graphics and links to sub-pages. Every file
associated with your page must be uploaded to the server. You
can not leave the graphics on your home computer and expect that
when someone accesses your page the images will be available
from your computer.
6) Graphic types: You can use .gif or .jpg graphics. We suggest
that you use jpegs (.jpg) whenever possible because they are
smaller and take less time to load than the same image in .gif
format. You can convert .gif to .jpg using programs for this
purpose, such as the shareware "Graphics Workshop." Currently,
you can only "float (transparent background)" .gif format
images, so you are stuck with .gifs if you intend to do this.
UPLOADING YOUR COMPLETED HOME PAGE
We will give you access to upload your completed pages/images
into your own html directory. You must click here to
fill out the form completely requesting an account. You do not have to wait
until your pages are completely finished before requesting this new account.
After you send your request to "support" and the new account is
set up, you will be given instructions on what to do, as well as
the new username and password.
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