To apply for web space, send an email from your Melb PC account to the Internet system administration team requesting web space be setup for you. Please put "Web Space" in the subject line so that your request identified easily.

Upon application, web space will be set up with a URL, or address, for the index page of the form

http://member.melbpc.org.au/~username/

where "username" is the username of your full Internet account and is a maximum of 8 characters.

Pages can be uploaded to the server via FTP.  You can do this with an FTP program or a web page editor that has a FTP facility.   Connect to server member.melbpc.org.au with the same username and password used for your full Internet account .  If a starting folder is required, put "/" which corresponds to the folder "~username" on the server.

The URL http://member.melbpc.org.au/~username/ points to a file named "index.html" or "index.htm" in the folder "/". If you wish to use other file names you must use a URL of the form "http://member.melbpc.org.au/~username/myfile.html" where "myfile.html" is the name of your file.

To view a list of current members web pages, visit http://member.melbpc.org.au/homepages-by-surname.html which is updated hourly.  The details listed are automatically extracted from the title tag (<title>Your title for listing here</title>) of a file named listing.html in the same folder as your index.html. Upload a file named listing.html with the indexing information you require (or a copy of your index.html if it has the required information in a title tag).

An article on the basic introduction to web page development appeared in the December 2001 issue of PC Update and can be viewed at http://www.melbpc.org.au/pcupdate/2112/2112article3.htm