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Introduction

What is a home page?

A home page is a personal web page which created by individuals themselves (usually), containing personal information, perhaps about the author himself/herself, or on topics he/she is interested in. The author will often also include some links (to other web pages).

The Internet has grown so quickly because of how information flows so freely, and how people share what they know with one another. So continue to spread this spirit by sharing what you know with others, and do not take it personally if someone else may have followed your style in creating his/her web page. That's actually a compliment - someone actually felt that your web page was good enough to be used as an example!

Every home page has an address, called a URL, Uniform Resource Locator. For SingNet users, this will be in the following forms:

http://web.singnet.com.sg/~userid

URL determination
The usage plan a SingNet user is on will determine his/her URL format:

For user on the Toll-Free usage plans, the URL will be:-

http://web.singnet.com.sg/~userid

For user on the Mbox2 or Non Toll-Free usage plans, the URL will also be:-

http://web.singnet.com.sg/~userid

What is userid
Userid is your username that you use to log on to the internet.

For example: if you use the username "tan" the URL will be:

http://web.singnet.com.sg/~tan

Default Main Page
In order to set up your main personal page as the default page (from which you can then add links to your other pages), the main page should be named index.html or index.htm, or welcome.html or welcome.htm.

When your personal pages directory on the SingNet server contains a default web page named as above, someone loading up your home using the URL: http://web.singnet.com.sg/~userid will be greeted with your main page first. If you do not have a file named index.html or index.htm, or welcome.html or welcome.htm, then all the files stored in your personal pages directory will be listed.

Subsequent pages may be named with any other name. Creating a link from the default page to your subsequent pages will allow other users to access your other pages easily.

Please check-out the Guide to HTML for more details.