Web Page Basics - MyDrive/MyWeb

Students, Faculty and Staff who have a UGA MyID also have a storage space on MyDrive which includes a "www" folder for your web pages (if you choose to publish any).

The URL to view your web pages is: http://myid.myweb.uga.edu (where "myid" is your UGA MyID)

For your Home Page to be viewable , you must create a start page named "index.html" or "home.html" that is located in your "www" folder at MyDrive/MyWeb. If you do not have a start page named "index.html" or "home.html," anyone attempting to view your web pages will get an error message like this:

Additionally, any files or folders related to your web site will also need to be located in your "www" folder in order for them to be viewable from the web.

Creating Web Pages

There are so many different ways for you to create web pages that we don't actually recommend any particular way.

Web pages can be created with a number of tools on your desktop computer.

Microsoft Word, Excel, Front Page Express
Most Microsoft products (such as Word and Excel) have a "Save as Web
Page" option. If you have Word or Excel, you may also have
Microsoft Front Page Express as well.

Dreamweaver
The leading web authoring environment fromAdobe/Macromedia.
http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/

Apple iLife
Mac users who have the iLife suite of software can also use
included iWeb utility.
http://www.apple.com/ilife/iweb/

Nvu
A Freely available web page authoring tool, based on the
"Composer" product that was available in older versions of Netscape
and Mozilla.

Note: Nvu makes fine pages, but its Site Management functions are
not compatible with MyDrive, you'll need to use one of the access
methods for MyDrive (Connecting to MyDrive/MyWeb) to publish
your pages made with Nvu.
http://www.nvu.com/

Text Editors
Any old text editor! Since web pages are just plain text, you can
minimally create a web page with any text editor of your choice.
Some fancy text editors also have additional modes for web page
creation.

Mac:
- TextMate: http://macromates.com/
- TextWrangler: http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/

Windows:
- TextPad: http://www.textpad.com/

Cross Platform:
- JEdit: http://www.jedit.org/

Unix/Linux:
- There are a multitude of text editors available for these
platforms, some standard choices are:
- vi
- emacs
- joe
- nedit

There are also a multitude of resources online to assist you in creating your web pages.

Lycos Webmonkey
Lycos has an interesting series entitled 'Webmonkey" which can get you started with Web Page Creation:

http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/authoring/html_basics/