The first step is to create the files you wish to post on your WEB site.  You can do this in Netscape Composer, Microsoft Word, or any other word processor capable of saving files in html format.  You should keep a backup copy of all the files on a floppy disk, on your own hard drive, or on the "html-working copy" directory of your H drive on clam, or somewhere else. 

Your HOME PAGE is a file which is posted on your WEB SITE with the file name "index.html"   This is better than "index.htm" since the operating system will go automatically to "index.html" as a default if no specific file request is given, it will not go to "index.htm".  Your HOME PAGE is the "table of contents" for your WEB  SITE.  It can any personal information you like, but its main function is to have links to your other "pages".  It is, in effect, the the title page, introduction and table of contents to your WEB site. You can have only one HOME PAGE on a WEB SITE, but you can keep changing and updating your HOME PAGE.

The first step is to prepare a Home Page file.  You do this in Netscape Composer or any other text editor that will save in html format.  Insert hyperlinks by highlighting text, clicking on "link" or "insert hyperlink" and typing or pasting in the address.  Save your Home Page with the file name index.html.
 
The next step is to PUBLISH your index.html file (or "page") to your html directory on clam.  The Rutgers Labs now have Mozila installed, a WEB browser and publisher that is the same as Netscape.  We will use this to publish, following the instructions for publishing a WEB page with Netscape 7.0.  This will actually work as well from home as from Rutgers, if you install Netscape 7.x or Mozila (from their WEB sites).  If you do this at Rutgers, it is easier because the file information is automatically supplied (or at least it used to be, we'll see if this still works).  You should definitely read the instructions for setting up a home page on clam which give all the details, although it is slightly different with Netscape 7.0 than with 4.7, which was used for the example.  You no longer need to find the location of your directory. 

One risk of publishing from Rutgers, however, is that you may make the mistake of "saving" to your html directory instead of "publishing" to it.  If you do this, it will reset the security paramaters on your directory so no one can access it.  Should you make this mistake, anyone who tries to access your file will get a Forbidden message.  This sounds ominous, but it can be corrected.  What you need to do is run the setup_web program to redefine your files.  To do this, you must telnet to clam (using the telnet program in the Communications folder, or by typing telnet://clam.rutgers.edu in the Netscape Location box).  Log onto your account with your account name and password.  Using the lush menu system, go to communications/www/setup_web.  Ask the program to redefine your files.  If this sounds like too much, get some help from computer center advisors.

You can also use other software, such as Microsoft FrontPage, to publish, but you have to learn how to configure that  software. Some versions of FrontPage are more difficult to use, I think, since they require you to publish an entire "web" at once.   An alternative is to use a file transfer program to simply transfer the html files from your computer to the html directory on your clam account.  A good program is WS_FTP which you can download free from download.com.  If you follow the instructions to establish a link to clam, clam will find your account for you.  On WS_FTP, your computer is in the left window, clam is in the right window.  You need to find the directory on your computer with the files you have created, then you need to find your html directory on clam.  Once this is set up, just highlight the file you want to transfer and click on the transfer arrow.  After January 1, however, FTP will no longer work at Rutgers, you will have to get a secure version, which may raise other problems.  

NOTE:  This summer, the computer center is going to switch to a different file transfer protocol, which means that ftp and netscape won't work any more.  They will issue instructions for using different software, check their help pages.

Once your page is published, anyone in the world should be able to access it by typing in its URL, which will be something like http://clam.rutgers.edu/~username.  The username will be the same as your clam user name.  This only works if you called your file index.html.  If you called it index.htm, people would have to type http://clam.rutgers.edu/~username/index.htm.