Publich Web Pages at UVM

Open Your Web Page in Lynx

If you are creating web pages directly on zoo using the pico editor, you can view them in any web bowser, like Netscape of Internet Explorer. (See "Open Your Web Page in a Browser ")

You can also view your web pages in the Zoo environment using Lynx. Lynx is a text-only web browser that resides on Zoo. Viewing your pages in Lynx has two advantages: 1) you are already connected to Zoo via telnet, and so don't have to open a seperate browser, and 2) you can use Lynx to see how your pages will appear to other people's text-only browsers, including visually impired readers who may be using a text-to-speech program to render their web pages.

To open you web page in lynx, at the zoo prompt type: lynx and then the web address

To see a page you have created, type:
http://www.uvm.edu/~your-account-name/filename.html

For example, to see the current page in lynx you would type:
lynx http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/wcreate/wclynx.html

What does this mean?
http:// - tells Netscape you are looking for a web page
www.uvm.edu - tells Netscape that the web page is located on the web server at the University of Vermont (aka "zoo")
/~hag - tells the web server to look in the public_html folder in the account named "hag"
/wcreate - specifies that the file is in a folder named "wcreate" within the public_html folder in that account
/wclynx.html - tells the browser to look for a file of that exact name in the wcreate sub-folder

Browse through your web page and note any errors. Close Lynx using Ctrl-x. Edit your page by typing:
pico filename
(where filename is the full name, including the .html extension, of the file you wish to edit)


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Hope Greenberg .
Created/updated: 1996/2002