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America Online provides each member with 2 megabytes of space for a
custom World Wide Web homepage at no additional cost. To set up your
homepage, first create an HTML document either with a layout program like
PageMill or "by hand" using any text editor or word processor to enter the
HTML (HyperText Markup Langague) code. It is advantageous to call your
home page file "index.html" since this does not require that the document
be part of the url that people have to type in to access it.
Next, sign on to AOL and go to keyword "ftp". At this point you will see
a list of documents with information about FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
including one with instructions on setting up your own homepage. If you
are already familiar with FTP on AOL, select "go to ftp". You will then
see a list of popular FTP sites, including the "Members FTP Space." Open
this one up.
The first time you access your personal ftp space, AOL will allocate your
disk space. You will see an informational file and an empty folder called
"Personal". From here, simply upload (or "FTP") your homepage document to
the directory you just opened (not the "Personal" one inside it). If your
homepage has any related graphics, backgrounds or downloadable files,
upload them as well.
Exit the FTP area. Your homepage is now up and running. To access it,
open your web browser and go to url:
"http://users.aol.com/YourScreenname/YourHomepageName". If you called your
homepage "index.html" you may omit "YourHomepageName" from the URL.
1) The 2 megabyte limit is per screenname, not per account. That
means that you can have the index HTML file under one screen name (which
would be your URL you give out) and as many files as you want in the FTP
sites for as many screen names as you want to create. The only
restriction is that the biggest file you can have is 2 megabytes.
2) The AOL servers seem to always switch off to members.aol.com when
you access users.aol.com. Although users.aol.com still works, access is
faster when you go directly to members.aol.com as in:
http://members.aol.com/ActionVerb/ instead of
http://users.aol.com/ActionVerb.
**Additional Info from Steve Henck - July 31, 1996
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