How to Create a Student Web Page at Monmouth University

The Monmouth University Student Web Pages reside on the Hawkmail server. In order to have email and a student home page you must have an account on this machine. All Students have an account on the Hawkmail server when they first register for classes. If for some reason you do not have an account you may send mail to the webmaster.

Mail to Webmaster

Please be advised that:

The "Personal" WWW pages are your responsibility to maintain and update.
The University is not responsible for the content of the pages.

Authoring Tutorial and Tools
Hawkmail Directory Setup
Counter and Form Information
Online Guides to Writing HTML

Please read the Directory Setup below to allow your account to publicly display your pages.

Authoring Tutorial and Tools

If you would like to view a basic tutorial on how to use Netscape to author a home page, please click here:

Netscape Page Wizard

Click below to get info on other web authoring tools that are used on the campus:

Adobe Pagemill

Microsoft FrontPage

Netscape Navigator

Hawkmail Directory Setup

To setup your hawkmail account to run your web pages, please read all of the directions below and follow them explicitly to avoid problems with your page.

1. Using a Telnet program:

log into your Hawkmail account.

2. At the $ prompt type:

mkdir public_html and hit Enter
(This is the command to create a new directory named "public_html")

then type:

chmod 755 public_html and hit Enter
(this command gives permission to access this new directory)

3. Then type:

cd public_html
(this command puts you in the public_html directory)

then type:

chmod 644 *.*
(this will allow public access to all of the html files you have put in this directory)

4. Using a FTP program or PUBLISH with Netscape

Put all of the html pages that you have created and want on your pages into the public_html directory:

Two most commonly used FTP programs are:
1. WS_FTP (PC)
2. Fetch (MAC)

IMPORTANT!

You must name the main or "home" page index.html

If you name it this, your home page will be automatically linked and listed on the list of student home pages on the Monmouth Home Page. The URL for student home pages is http://hawkmail.monmouth.edu/~login

Again, please make sure your main page is named "index.html" otherwise you will not be linked.

If you would like a counter or a form:

Online Guides to Writing HTML

Try clicking on the links below to get familiar with html editing to create your pages or acquire one of the increasingly numerous drag-and-drop graphic html editors available.

A Beginners Guide to HTML
Composing good HTML
CyberWeb: WWW Development
Style guide for On-line Hypertext
Netscape: Creating Net Sites
Webreference.com

Comments and suggestions to: Webmaster
webmaster@monmouth.edu