ITS Web Services:

How to Browse/Surf the Web

How to Learn to Make Websites

• An Introduction to HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
• Tips for your HTML documents
• Imagemaps
• How to set up a Redirect Announcement if your site moves
• How to hire a contract web developer - coming soon!
• Caltech Webmaster Forum (A volunteer peer-to-peer support network made up of people who work on websites at Caltech as part of their jobs, study or research.  They have a website with lots of handy resources and a mailing list.)

How to Choose a Server to Publish your Webpages

Extra Features to Add to your Caltech Webpages

• E-mail feedback forms with metafeedback
• Caltech logos and instructions for use
• Caltech Guidelines and Policies for Incorporating Credit Card Transactions on Caltech Websites
• Caltech Webmaster Forum: "Search the Caltech Web" box
• Caltech Webmaster Forum: Dynamically generated staff lists from the Caltech Online Personnel Directory
• Caltech Webmasters: Using the Caltech webpage templates
• Caltech Webmasters: How to use the Caltech Search Engine

Using your ITS UNIX Account to Publish Webpages

• Interactive UNIX interface
  Once you have set up your UNIX interface and public_html directory, you can use your Windows or Macintosh computer to edit your web documents.
  • Windows interface using Samba/Network Neighborhood
    • How do I map my ITS Unix home directory from my Windows PC desktop?
  • Macintosh interface using Appletalk/CAP
  • FTP to transfer files into your account - coming soon!
• View Statistics for the ITS Webserver
• ITS Restrictions on CGI programs
• Restricting Access to your Webpages using .htaccess for Apache
• Count webpage hit counter
• Virtual hosting on the ITS web server
  This allows you to have URLs other than http://www.its.caltech.edu/~name go to your web pages.

Further questions? Comments? Requests for more documentation?

Email itsweb@its.caltech.edu.