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====== Personal Web Pages ====== | ====== Personal Web Pages ====== | ||
- | There are two main options for creating a personal homepage on the Physics & Astronomy systems. The unix style public_html directory, or your own set of pages in this wiki. | + | There are two main options for creating a personal homepage on the Physics & Astronomy systems: your own set of pages in this wiki, or traditional unix " |
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A Wiki is a web based content management system where simple text-base syntax is used to form titles, links, formatting, etc. Wiki markup is easier to learn and manage than HTML. You edit your page(s) right in your web browser. | A Wiki is a web based content management system where simple text-base syntax is used to form titles, links, formatting, etc. Wiki markup is easier to learn and manage than HTML. You edit your page(s) right in your web browser. | ||
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The [[:people]] is an area for physics computing users where you can create your personal wiki page(s). | The [[:people]] is an area for physics computing users where you can create your personal wiki page(s). | ||
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public_html is a special directory you create in your physics & astronomy home directory. Then you write regular HTML files and place them inside. This is the most basic and traditional way to create a website. We also support php and cgi so you can create interactive web applications and forms. | public_html is a special directory you create in your physics & astronomy home directory. Then you write regular HTML files and place them inside. This is the most basic and traditional way to create a website. We also support php and cgi so you can create interactive web applications and forms. |