What kind of computer equipment, software and service do I need to set up a basic web page?
None. Your office computer and the computer equipment, software and service presently available at Purdue University, North Central is all that you need. However, if you are accessing the course material remotely, off campus, you need at least: PC: 100MHz, 1Gig Hard Drive, 16 Meg Ram, 28.8 modem Mac: 100Mhz, 1Gig Hard Drive, 16 Meg Ram, 28.8 modem, PowerMac Web browser: Internet Explorer or Netscape (95% of web browsers are one of these two types) 2. How do I put my first web page on the internet? You first ask Information Services to set up a location for you on the computer server that supports faculty web sites. You then create a Word (Frontpage) document file “index.html” which you save in this location. This is the first (front, top) page of your website. The index web page typically has a list of hyperlinks that connect to various other web pages, such as different courses you might be teaching, say. 3. How do I put a picture on a web page? Pictures, like text, are files. There a
