The following four steps will allow you to create a home page.  You'll need the "Telnet" program.  The instructions are for Windows machines.  If you regularly use a mac, seem me for help, or use a Windows machine for this assignment.

    I suggest that you print out these instructions.  They won't always be easily visible on your screen as you follow the various steps.
    Assignment--1st part.  Create a home page and type a simple message (e.g. you name) on it
    Step 1: If you have not yet activated your mason account, do so here. 
    Step 2: Create the space will you will keep your home page and associated web pages.  This is called the public_html folder. 

    The following is excepted from a page created by Virginia Montecino at http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/create9.htm.

    After you have activated your mason account, log on:

             From a Windows PC:
             a. Click on Start (bottom left of your screen) or, if on campus, click on the "Telnet" icon.
             b. Click on Run
             c. Type telnet mason.gmu.edu
             d. Enter your mason username and press ENTER
             e. Enter your mason password and press ENTER [You will not see the password.]
                    (Remember this account is not the same as your MEMO e-mail account.)
     

    At the osf1 or mason.gmu.edu> prompt, type pwd and press "Enter"

    You should see some characters like home/u?/your_username,
    where the ? is a number.  Write that number down; you'll need it later.

    Now, to create a public_html directory and set permissions:

            a. At the osf1 or mason.gmu.edu> prompt, type cd Press "Enter"
            b. Type: mkdir public_html   Press "Enter"
               [The initial prompt (mason.gmu.edu> or osf1.gmu.edu) will reappear each time you press Enter. Then go on to each new
               instruction.]
            c. To set permissions (so that everyone can see your pages), type:
               chmod 755 public_html
               Then, to make your mason account accessible:
            d. Type cd   Press ENTER
            e.  Type chmod 711 .    (Don't forget the space and period after 711) Press ENTER
               [You will probably never need to set these permissions again for your mason account.]

    Step 3: Create your home page, which is always named "index.html".  Click on the Composer Tutorial to do so.
    Step 4:  Publish your home page (which should be named "index.html") to your mason account.  The following is adapted from Susan Campbell's page at http://mason.gmu.edu/~scampbel/netnav.html

        Publishing a Web Page Created in Netscape Composer to 
                                            Your MASON Account

    To publish a Web page created in Netscape Composer to your MASON account…

    1.  Click on the "PUBLISH" button on the tool bar.

    2.  Enter the title of your page after the "Page Title" prompt.

    3.  Enter the name of your HTML file after the "HTML filename" prompt.
         NOTE: Give the file name a ".html" extension.

    4.  Enter ftp://mason.gmu.edu/home/u?/your_username/public_html/ 
         after the "HTTP or FTP Location to publish to" prompt.

        NOTE 1: Replace "your_username" with the user name for your MASON account.

        NOTE 2: Replace the "?" in "u?" to specify the full path to the directory where your account is located. (You found this number in Step 2.  You can repeat that step up to the point where you get the number, if you have lost it.)

    5.  Enter your password for your MASON account in the "Password Entry Dialog" box.

    6.  Click on the "OK" button.

        NOTE: A message box should appear that says "Your file was uploaded successfully."

    Congratulations!