Your personal homepage

You can access your personal EE homepage with a web browser by typing the address http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~username where username is the login of your EE Unix account.

In the home directory of your EE Unix account you can find a subdirectory called ~/public_html. Whatever you want to appear on your homepage must be saved in this directory. The homepage itself is in the file ~/public_html/index.html.

HTML

Web pages have to be written in "Hyper Text Markup Language" (HTML). That sounds worse than it is and the links below lead to some introductions to this topic. With the function "View->Page Source" or "View Frame Source" of your Browser you can take a look at the source of the web page you are just looking at.

But be warned: the HTML source of some pages is difficult to read, as it can be created automatically by scripts. The pages of this site for example.

Further Links

W3Schools - a nice introduction to HTML and other languages

SelfHTML - a very complete HTML/CSS Guide and Reference (in German)

WWW Consortium, this is where the Web-standards are created and documented

W3 Validator - where you can validate your Sorce for correctness