Editing Your Personal Homepage

Using any text editing program like Notepad on Windows or TextEdit on a Macinthosh, this page will show you how to personalize your homepage using a text editor.

 

The directions below assume you already have a default personal homepage on the U-System. See:

 

• Create a Web Page
• Viewing Your Personal Homepage

Bring your website up in a web browser. It should look something like this example:

 

• Select "View" from your browser's menu; then select "Source" or "Page Source" to view the html code for your website.

• Copy and paste the html code into a text editor such as Notepage on a Windows computer or TextEdit on a Macintosh.
  
  HINT: If you use Internet Explorer on a Windows computer, the html code will open automatically in the Notepad text editor program when you view the page source.

• Edit the text that appears between the "title tags" to change the text that appears at the top of the browser screen:
       <title> My Homepage </title>

Note:
Changes are not viewable over the internet until they are uploaded to your web server account.

 

 

• Save your index.html file as a "text document" or "text only" or whatever option your editor offers that will save the file as a plain text file (without any formatting). Make sure the .html extension is not replaced a .txt extension.

• To make the changes visible over the internet, your index.html file must be copied to your web server account. See:

• Upload to a Web Server

• Add Content to a Webpage
• Adding Style & Graphics