First, a little basic vocabulary.

• A browser is a program that lets you read web pages and hop from one to the next. Netscape is the browser of choice on the Suncluster, but Mosaic is still kicking around somewhere, and a lot of the websurfing public uses Microsoft Internet Explorer. These instructions assume you're using Netscape.

• HTML is the ``language'' (actually just a bunch of ``tags'', or formatting markers) in which web pages are written. HTML documents are just plain text files with a particular format and content.

• A URL (Uniform/Universal Resource Locator) is sort of like an email address, but it specifies a particular document (often an HTML file) on a web server. URLs usually start off with ``http://''.

1. Make a copy of these instructions, so you can use your main browser window to set up your page. Either:
   • Print hardcopy -- choose ``Print'' from the ``File'' menu, and enter lp -d ps as the print command, or
   • Spawn a second web browser window -- do ``New Window'' from the ``File'' menu.

2. Start up your favorite browser (if not already running), and log into your Sun account with a standard text window.

3. In your home directory, create and move into a new directory for your pages:
   • cd ~
   • mkdir public_html
   • cd public_html

4. Go to the homepage template that I've created.

5. Save the source code of this page to your public_html directory.
   • Choose ``Save As'' from the ``File'' menu.
   • Set ``Format for saved document'' to ``Source''.
   • Enter the filename as ~xyz/public_html/index.html. (Replace ``xyz'' with your username.)
   • Click OK.

6. Edit the index.html file.
   • Open up the index.html file with your favorite text editor.
   • Replace Hubble's name with your own (three places), and alter other text as you see fit. Don't muck around with the tags (the things in angle brackets) just yet.
   • Save the file (but don't quit the editor).

7. Back in your browser, call up your new page.
   • Choose ``Open Location'' or ``Open Page'' from the ``File'' menu.
   • Enter http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~xyz/ (where xyz is again your username).
   • Press the ``Open'' or ``Open in Navigator'' button.

8. Your page should appear. Marvel at it.

9. To make modifications, edit the HTML source, save the file, and then press the ``Reload'' button in your browser. If you're feeling adventurous, you can experiment with the tags and try to figure out what they really do.

10. Mail your friendly webmeister at webmaster@astro.caltech.edu and say ``I've got a page now! Link me in to the astro pages -- my URL is http://astro.caltech.edu/~xyz/. Wow, this stuff is so cool!'' It sure is.

11. Make your homepage your default startup page.
    • Select ``Preferences'' from the ``Edit'' menu.
    • Choose ``Navigator'' from the menu at the left of the window.
    • Click on ``Location'', and enter your URL in the text field.
    • Hit OK.