All Purdue University faculty, staff, and students can publish a personal web page.
When you receive an email account and a student ID, a www folder and sample index.html file were placed in your Purdue Home Directory. Your web page address is http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~login where "login" is your Purdue Career Account login. Any files that you would like to use as a part of your web page should be placed in your www folder.
For policies regarding content of web pages at Purdue University, see Policy for Purdue Pages on the World Wide Web.
Accessing your personal webpage: Your www folder is located on your Purdue Home Directory.On a PC in the ITAP computer labs, your home directory is located on drive H in WIndows Explorer. On an ITaP lab Mac, double-click the Macintosh HD icon to open it, then select your career account login to access your home directory
From a personal computer: See How do I access my Purdue Home Directory from my personal computer?.
To edit your web page: To edit your web page, open the index.html file with any web page editing software. Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft FrontPage are available on all ITaP lab PCs. Macromedia Dreamweaver is also available on all ITaP lab Macs.
About the web.ics.purdue.edu Web server: The following versions of software are available on the web.ics.purdue.ed web server: Apache 1.3.28, PHP 4.3.2, mod_perl 1.29, MySQL 4.0.14. You can create a MySQL account for database use
