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Your Personal
Page is a 10mb storage section on the Unite members web server.
Each member of Unite Online has FTP access to this server.
The Personal Pages uploaded to this server are available to
viewed on any web browser from anywhere on the Internet. Personal
content should be stored on these pages only. Content such
as Commercial or Corporate business sites, Adult sites or
content, or any other content that violates a content based
law in Australia should be not used in your Personal Page.
• Creating your Personal Page
Before you can upload your Personal Page to our server you
need to first create your site. Your personal site will consist
of web pages (common html files) linked together and optionally
containing images, photos, sounds and other multi-media content.
You can use many web page creators on the market to generate
your pages, check your local PC supplier or have a look on
the internet for some HTML authoring software.
• Testing your Personal Page
Before you being to upload your website you should test all
links, images and pages for errors. Errors can include missing
links, spelling mistakes, references to incorrect paths and
incorrect html code. Check for things such as links pointing
to "file://c//My%20Documents/mypage.html", these will not
work once they are uploaded onto our web server. Also things
such as reference mixed case filenames, all file names should
be lowercase in both the filename itself and the HTML code.
For example uploading "myfamily.GIF" and in your HTML specifying
<IMG SRC="myfamily.gif"> will not work as the web server
is case sensitive.
• Uploading via FTP
To being uploading your website you need to obtain an FTP
client. Some FTP clients are free and come with your Operating
System and some require a purchase fee. Check with your PC
supplier for some FTP software or check your favorite search
engine for some free software. We recommend using CuteFTP
due to it's ease of use and is available as a trial download
from www.download.com. Please Note: The use of CuteFTP is
subject to CuteFTP's terms and conditions, you should thoroughly
read these before downloading or using it. Unite will be able
to offer limited support for CuteFTP but if problems persist
you should contact your nearest PC vendor for assistance with
CuteFTP. Once you have obtained your FTP client and installed
it you need to enter the following settings:
Host: members.unite.com.au
Port: 21
Username: <youruniteusername>
Password: <yourunitepassword>
Optional settings such as Server Type or Retries should be
left as default and should work correctly. When you are ready
to proceed click on "Connect" or "Connect to Host" and you
should see some messages such as...
Connected to members.unite.com.au.
220 members.unite.com.au NcFTPd Server (licensed copy) ready.
User: u1945
331 User u1945 okay, need password.
Password: *******
230-You are user #1 of 10 simultaneous users allowed.
230-
230 Restricted user logged in.
You are now ready to upload your files. Depending on your
FTP client you are using it might be a simple task of dragging
the files across from your hard disk, or you may need to enter
commands to upload each file. Do this for each of the files
you want to upload. Also be sure to upload an "index.html"
file which is your opening page.
• Testing you Personal Page
The final step of uploading your Personal Page is testing.
You can do this by opening your web browser and entering in:
http://members.unite.com.au/<youruniteusername>/
For Example, if your username was 'u4821' you would enter:
http://members.unite.com.au/u4821/ Once you do this
you should see your Personal Page. If you can see your Personal
Page congratulations!
• Help. My Personal Page doesn't
work!
Here are some preliminary things to check if your Personal
Site doesn't load correctly in your web browser.
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Check to see if you have an index.html file
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Check
your HTML code to make sure you have referenced files without
paths
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Check
your filenames for incorrect case. Your files should be all
lowercase
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Make
sure your HTML code references all files as lowercase and
not mixed case.
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Things
such as ASP, CGI, PHP, Perl scripts won't work and
will cause problems if you try these
All these tips should assist you in getting your Personal
Page on the internet. Once you have finished and you are happy
with the results give the address out to your friends, family,
colleagues, etc.. Should you have any other problems not covered
in this guide please contact our friendly support staff who
will be happy to assist you. When calling please have details
such as what FTP Client you are using and what Web page creator
program you have used.
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