Creating the initial page

After you have signed up for your web page you are ready to create your personal page. You should read the Mountain Telephone web page rules before continuing. After reading that you are ready to make your home page. This is the first page that will be displayed. Before we make the first page how about making a folder on your hard drive to save all your pages in. We will save a copy of all the pages on your local hard drive and make sure they work before uploading them. Lets make a folder on C drive called PersonalWeb. Then lets put all the files in here. Now we are ready to make the first page. You need to name it index.html. Lets start Notepad or whatever html editor you want to use. Put the some html code in it and save it as index.html in the folder you created. Click here for a sample of working code.

Uploading Pages

Now that you have created your index.html page which is the first page to display it is time to upload it. You can do this with an easily obtained free FTP client or with a dos prompt. The Dos prompt method is beyond the scope of this article. We will do it with the FTP Client. First of all lets see if we can access our Personal Web Site. Bring up your FTP client and type in the address like this "ftp://members.mrtc.com/". This should bring you to your site. If it doesn't recheck the address. At this time you may be prompted for your username and password. * NOTE: Some FTP clients will require you to enter your username and password on the screen with the address entry. It must be spelled exactly with proper small and captial letters. Now it is time to upload your file(s)and you now have "rights" to do so. Most FTP clients have two panes on the screen. The one on the left usually being the files contained on your local computer. The right being the sever where you will put them. If you took the suggestion to make a folder called PersonalWeb, then you should go there. Find the file index.html. Highlight this file and use the move buttons usually located between the two panes. You may add other files following this same procedure. You may test you page by going to the address bar and typing in "members.mrtc.com/(your login)". You should see your "first" page. Remember you have a 25 meg limit, but you can do a lot in this amount of space.

Sample Code for index.html

Here is some code you can use for your index.html page.

<html>

<head>

<title>My First Web Page</title>

</head>

<p>Welcome to My Home Page</p>

</body>

</html>

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