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Web - Managing Personal Websites

The basics

There are numerous resources available for faculty, staff, students, and other UW-Platteville stakeholders who wish to publish personal web pages at no cost, including the following:

• Google Sites
• Weebly
• Wordpress.com
• Your "J Drive" provided by UW-Platteville (This requires a Net ID. See below for more information.)

J Drive

To manage a personal website on your J drive, create a subdirectory (folder) in your J drive. Name the subdirectory public_html so that the web server can find it. Then all files in that subdirectory will be accessible at /~username/ (where "username" is your NetID), including HTML files, image files, JavaScript files, etc. Make sure the HTML file for your home page is named index.html so that the web server knows it is the default page.

More Details

If you're logged in on a UW-Platteville PC:

• Open up "My Computer."
• Open up the J: drive.
• Create a new subdirectory (folder). Name the new subdirectory public_html so that the web server can find it.
• Save your HTML files, images files, and other web resources, in the public_html subdirectory.
• Make sure the HTML file for your home page is named index.html so that the web server knows it is the default page.

If you're not using a UW-Platteville PC, or you're using a Mac:

• Use SFTP or AFP to open the user1 server.
• Create a subdirectory (folder) in your username subdirectory (where "username" is your NetID). Name the new subdirectory public_html so that the web server can find it.
• Transfer your HTML files, images files, and other web resources, to the public_html subdirectory.

Access your Home Page

Just go to /~username (where "username" is your NetID). By default, the index.html file in your public_html subdirectory will be served to your web browser. If you specify additional path information, like /~username/page2.html, the web server will serve a different page to your web browser—page2.html in this example.