1	Student Home Page Creation Computer Services West Virginia State University
2	Where to Start An account which serves as both an email and web page account is automatically created for all new students. If you do not know your account information you can go to Computer Services Hamblin Hall Room 123. Be sure to bring your current validated student id. (Drivers License is not accepted)
3	Now that you have an Account Log in to your account using ssh. Putty is a popular free ssh client available on the internet. Example ssh mail.wvstateu.edu Enter your username and initial password which came from Computer Services. Your account has 10 mb of disk space.
4	Set up your homepage. At the $ prompt in your home account, enter the following command : mkdir public_html This will create a subdirectory in your account called public_html Any pages or pictures in this directory can be linked together and accessed over the internet.
5	Updating your pages remotely You may use any editor to create or update your html pages. After updating a page you must use sftp to upload it to your account. There are many sftp clients available on the internet such as Filezilla Make sure that all pages are uploaded to the public_html subdirectory. Your initial page must be named index.html
6	Updating your pages locally There is an editor in your account called pico which will allow you to make changes to your pages. For instance, if you wish to make a change to your index.html page you can bring it up in the editor by typing the following at the $ prompt. pico index.html (Follow the menu in pico to make changes and save.) To find help with using the pico editor type man pico at the $ prompt.
7	Viewing My New Page To view your page, go to http://mail.wvstateu.edu/~account Where account is the name of your account. Example for user smithj would be http://mail.wvstateu.edu/~smithj
8	Thats it. You should now have your own internet accessible homepage. Note : You home page must follow all current and future West Virginia State University policies. This includes not only your home page but includes all material which is linked to your page.
9	Your home page. West Virginia State University is permitting you to place a home page on their server on the conditions that: You are a current student at WVSU. You abide by the policies and procedures of West Virginia State University. The use and abuse policy can be found at http://www.wvstateu.edu/shared/content /administrative_services/wvspp/ BOG53-ResponsibleComputerUse.pdf