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Creating a Staff Home Page

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The UW Staff Web Server ( staff.washington.edu) is available for staff to publish work materials, research results and other information pertaining to their UW jobs.

Instructions

Follow these four steps to create a home page for your Web site.

  1. Activate Web Publishing
  2. Compose a Home Page
  3. Move Your Home Page to Your Web Directory
  4. Open Your Home Page
  1. StepsActions
  2. Activate Web Publishing

    Web publishing is a service tied to your UW NetID and Homer account.

    To activate Web publishing:

    Make sure you have a UW NetID.

    If you already have an "@u.washington.edu" email address, then you already have a UW NetID, so you can proceeed to "Activate your Web publishing service" below. If you don't have a UW NetID, you need to Get your UW NetID now, and then proceed with these instructions.

    Activate necessary services.

    There are two services that you must activate.

    You can manage which services you have active on the Add or change services area of the Manage your UW NetID Resources page.

    1. The Web Publishing service:

      On the "Computing Services" page, you should see "Web Publishing" under the list of services that are turned on. If the service "Web Publishing" is not active, then you must activate it:

      1. Find it in the list of services that are inactive
      2. Check the checkbox beside it
      3. Click the Subscribe button and follow the remaining instructions
    2. The Homer Account service:

      Your Homer account will let you manage the files on your Web site.

      On the "manage services" page, you should see "Homer Account" in the list of services turned on. If the service "Homer Account" is not turned on, then you must activate it:

      1. Find it in the list of services that are inactive
      2. Check the checkbox beside it
      3. Click the Subscribe button and follow the remaining instructions

    Activating Web Publishing and the Homer services creates your Web directory called public_html on your Homer account. Files placed into public_html will be immediately viewable on your Web site.

    Note: Are you both a student and employed at UW? If you have both staff or faculty and student Web services enabled, then you will find public_html containing your staff or faculty Web files, and a new student_html directory containing your student Web files. Use the proper directory name accordingly when managing your Web files.

  3. Compose a Home Page

    You have some options for composing a home page:

    Note: if you compose your home page by hand or with an HTML authoring tool, save the file as index.html (or index.htm). This is the filename associated with your home page.

  4. Move Your Home Page to Your Web Directory

    If you need to manually upload your home page to your Web directory, use a secure file transfer program, such as WinSCP (for Microsoft Windows) or Fugu (for Apple Macintosh). These programs are available at no charge on the Tools for Safe and Secure Computing page.

    You will find your Web directory (public_html) by connecting your file transfer program to homer.u.washington.edu.

    You can read more about moving files to your Web directory.

  5. Open Your Home Page

    Once your home page is in your Web directory, you and others can view it by opening your home page address in a Web browser. The URL depends on your UW NetID:

    http://staff.washington.edu/your_uwnetid/

    Substitute your UW NetID for your_uwnetid.

    Refer to the UW Web Server URL page for a complete reference of these URLs.

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