What does webready Do?

To actually create your own homepage and set up the proper environment so the whole WWW can read your page, takes many steps. First, you must create the page (HTML file) and store it the proper directory so the BSU WWW server can find it. You must also set the correct protection on this file so someone else can actually read it. We realize this may be overwhelming at first, so BSU has created a program called WEBREADY. Webready does a few things for you:

  • It creates a WWW subdirectory in your VAX account with the proper protections so it can be seen by others.
  • It creates a template page called INDEX.HTML and stores this file in the WWW subdirectory also with the proper protections. There are four other files (GIF files) that will be put in this subdirectory that are used in this INDEX page.
  • It mails you a message to your VAX account. This letter has been slightly edited by me to include HTML tags and hyperlinks.
  • The sent Mail Message