On Jan. 15, 1997, the Academic Technology Services (ATS) division of Cornell Information Technologies (CIT) will introduce a service for Cornell students, staff and faculty who want to post personal Web pages.
Members of the Cornell community will be able to register for this service by filling out a form on the Web. The sign-up process will automatically create directory space on a Web server and register the location in CUinfo's directory of personal pages. People can then use FTP (File Transfer Protocol) to load their Web pages onto the server. (FTP software is available as part of Bear Access.) Each person will be allowed up to 5MB of disk space on the server.
ATS will provide on-line templates and tutorials to assist those who are new to Web technology, as well as access to HTML editors (HyperText Markup Language -- HTML -- is the programming language used by the Web) that greatly simplify creation of a Web page.
This new service will be a home for individual personal Web pages. Student and Academic Services already offers Web space for registered student organizations.
ATS will publish further information about the Personal Web Page service at the start of the spring 1997 semester. In the meantime, comments about this new offering can be sent to webpages@cornell.edu .