Technology How To

Introduction
A home page is the first page presented when a user selects a site or presence on the World Wide Web. At Wake Forest faculty, staff, and students can create a machine generated Wake Forest Home Page. Once this machine generated web page has been created it can be edited with Macromedia or Adobe Dreamweaver. For instructions on editing your Wake Forest home page, see the handout entitled: Site Management and Web Editing with Dreamweaver. To create a Wake Forest home page, follow the steps below.

How to Activate a Wake Forest Homepage

1. Open Netscape and enter the URL http://www.wfu.edu/update.html
2. Log in using your Wake Forest login and password (the same one you use to log in to NT and email.)
3. Click the Submit button

4. In the window that appears, click Create a Wake Forest Home Page and click
Continue.

5. Click on the link to your Wake Forest home page that appears in the window.

6. If you already have a Wake Forest home page, the text in the window will indicate that
the directory already exists and supply you with a link to your Wake Forest home page.

Troubleshooting a Wake Forest Homepage
If after editing a web page in Macromedia or Adobe Dreamweaver images on the web page do not appear in the web browser, or links to other web pages are not working properly, check the following:

Did you transfer the image files to the web server?
Make sure you moved a copy of the file from the local copy of your web page to the server copy of your web page using the Site Management Tool in Macromedia or Adobe Dreamweaver.

Are the permissions correct?
Files have permissions attached to them. If the permissions are wrong the image will not appear and an error message will appear that says “Document Does Not Exist” or “File(s) Cannot Be Found.”

Permissions are set by going to http://www.wfu.edu/update.html:

1. Select Set permissions for personal home page.
2. Click Continue.
3. Select Yes from the pulldown menu.
4. Click Submit.
5. View the page in Netscape to see if the images/pages are now visible.

Are the File Names Correct?
Images and web pages need file names with no capital letters, special characters, or spaces in the file name.