Making a Home Page

Making a WWW home page in Dept of Phonetics and Linguistics

Anyone in the department with a login  to its networked systems can make their own World Wide Web home page. This should contain basic information about your function and location in the department plus any other information you choose to add. When set up it will be accessible via www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/your_login_name. It will also be accessible via "People in the Department"  on the front page of the Department Website if you request this. To make this request,  click on Enquiries at the bottom of the home page on www.phon.ucl.ac.uk and fill in the form asking for link to be made from People in the Department to your web page. Give your login name on the Phonetics and Linguistics server as this identifies the directory name containing your home page.

To create you own page

If you are not a Phonetics & Linguistics staff member, click on Enquiries at the bottom of the home page on www.phon.ucl.ac.uk and fill in the form, asking for a web space directory to be enabled for you on the server.
Normally only Departmental PhD students in addition to P&L staff members will be given space here.

Make the pages using an HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) editor on a PC and then save them onto your web space on the Phonetics and Linguistics web server. The free PC application "First Page" provides a facility for web page creation, editing and saving onto the Phonetics and Linguistics web server from a PC  in the department, and in conjunction with the free secure file transfer application WinSCP from a PC outside the department.. Instructions for using these are available here.  This is the recommended method.

Many other HTML editors are available. Microsoft Word has a facility for saving files created under it in HTML
and can be used for simple pages.

To save your web pages onto the Phon/Ling web server  from a PC  not directly plugged into to the department's network you must use an editor or file transfer system which sends the files to bell.phon.ucl.ac.uk into directory /www/home/your_login_name via the sftp protocol such as WinSCP. You should not use the ftp protocol facilitiy available in many free web editors as this sends your password to the server unencrypted which is a security risk. You must enter your Phonetics & Linguistics username and password before the files can be saved.

From a PC directly plugged into the  department's network, files can be saved to and edited in your server web space as though they are on your PC's local disk. To do this your server web space must be mapped to a spare drive letter on your PC. This is one way to to this:-

Log on via Windows using your network password and user name. Right click on "My computer" then left click "map network drive" and map drive e: (if spare, otherwise use another letter that is) to \\bell\www

Copy or save the file you have created to drive e::

HTML file naming

If a file in the top level directory of your web space is named Welcome.html, welcome.html, index.html or index.php then the instructions in this file will be acted on when www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/your_login_name/ is accessed.  If you have only one file in your web space it should have one of these names. preferably index.html which is a more common standard. If you have other files then a file with one of these names should contain links to these others.

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