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How do I create/edit a home page?

TO CREATE A GENERIC HOME PAGE
(The makehome command creates a generic homepage, with a few links that are pointers to html information, etc.)

VIA THE SAS ACCOUNT CONFIGURATION PAGE:

  1. Go to the SAS Account Configuration page and log in.
  2. Click on Homepage.
  3. Click Create Homepage
  4. Click Logout.

TO PERSONALIZE YOUR HOMEPAGE:

The homepage is a file called index.html in the directory called html in your mail.sas home directory. You can personalize this page and add other pages using various methods. For example, you can use HTML editors such as Macromedia's Dreamweaver to edit and create pages. After you have created them with your program, you then upload them to your html directory on mail.sas. See here for more information on uploading files to your html directory.

Below are some pointers for how to personalize your homepage using unix.

  1. Type the following at the Main Menu prompt: unix and then press the enter/return key.
  2. Type cd html and then press the enter/return key.
  3. Type pico index.html and then press the enter/return key.
  4. You can now begin editing your homepage. You can modify this file in order to personalize it. To create a new page, just make a new file called filename.html. Make sure that this file is in your html directory and that it has the proper permissions set. It should be readable to everyone and writeable only to you. To do this, type the following from the unix prompt:
  • For files: chmod 644 filename.html
  • For directories: chmod 711 directory_name
  • Or, to set the permissions for all the files and directories in your html directory so everyone can read them, type permissions at the unix prompt.
  • For more information about permissions, see our chmod page.

There are also many places on the web that provide information on setting up a homepage, ranging from beginning html instruction to details on incorporating image maps and forms. Here are a few:


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Last modified: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 14:57:49 EST