Here is a suggestion for getting a homepage going, along with a personalized window to the
WEB.  This is much Easier than doing it at Rutgers, much, much easier!.  And it is Free.  The
only downside is that you get advertising.
 

1.  Log onto Yahoo at http://www.yahoo.com

2.  Click onto "Creat Your Own Personal Yahoo!"

3.  You will select a personal Yahoo id name, which might be the same as you use at Rutgers or
it may have to be different.  I couldn't use "goertzel" because another goertzel probably has it.
So I used goertz_NJ.

4.  Tell Yahoo the categories you are interested in.  They will filter information for you.

5.  Click on "Creat Your Public Profile"  Provide the information requested.

6.  Click on "Sign Up for a Personal Profile with Geocities"   Yahoo will send your personal profile
information to them.
 

Sign up for GeoCities!
      Want to create your own Home Page? GeoCities offers you 11 MB of disk space, 40
                            themed neighborhoods, a zine dedicated to Home Page tips and tricks plus
loads of tools to help make your page the best it can be. Read below to begin registering!
To make your GeoCities registration easier, Yahoo! can transfer your account information
blow to GeoCities for you so you don't have to fill it in!

7.  Accept the Geocities form which prohibits nudity or pornography.

8.  Work through the menus and they will send you a password.  Once you have the password,
you can log on and begin building your membership.
 

9.  They will assign you an homepage address within their system.  Mine is.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/9198/

10.   Once you have your homepage and get your password (which you can change) you get a
message saying:

We've already built your first home page for you, but you can
make changes to it by using one of our online editors located
within the File Manager Utility
http://www.geocities.com/members/tools/file_manager.html

You can also go to their chat, forums, etc.

11.  When you enter the file_manager, you can look at your files.  You'll find you have one called
index.html     This is your "Homepage" which you can edit with their editors.  You can upload
files which you have created with Netscape Communicator or another program using their EZ
File Upload.  Just Click on Browse and it will go to files on your disk.  It will even change *.htm
files to *.html automatically if you ask it to.  I uploaded the index.html file I had created at
Rutgers.    All the links in that file connect back to Rutgers or somewhere else, but it gives me
another point where people can access my files.

For my Answer to a query from a student about how to upload an index file click here.