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Introduction:
In your own work as a Rutgers University instructor, you may want at some point to publish your own web page or site, either for a class or personal use. One of the most widely-used and versatile programs for creating web pages today is Macromedia's Dreamweaver. This is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) program, so you don't need any previous knowledge of HTML hand-coding for creating a web page. Dreamweaver allows you to create and edit web pages and sites in a graphical user interface, so you are able to see changes to your work as you make them. This tutorial will walk you through many aspects of Dreamweaver, from creating a new document, to publishing it on your RCI space.

Setting up your RCI account:
If you have not yet established a staff/faculty account on an ICI (Instructional Computing Initiative) server at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, called "RCI", you will need to do so ASAP. All Rutgers faculty and staff are eligible for an account, though new hires will need to wait until they are in the Rutgers system (generally after the first paycheck).

Just visit the URL below, read the "Acceptable Use Policy" guidelines, then go to the bottom and click on the "Accept" button. A form will appear on your screen. Fill in the form, press "Create Account," and in 15 minutes you will have a new "RCI" account.

Start here to establish your RCI account:
https://www.rci.rutgers.edu/rats/rats.cgi

Setting up your public_html folder:
Once you have an RCI account, you will need to establish a folder (or "directory") to which you can publish your web pages. This is called a "public_html" directory. You also need to change the settings (or "mode") of that directory to make it available to the public (so that anyone can read but not write to what you post there).

To accomplish these things, you will need to access the UNIX server using telnet and give the server some basic UNIX commands. The following instructions make those written by New Brunswick Computing Services somewhat more understandable.

Follow these steps:

1. Use telnet (or a local shortcut) to access your RCI account. Or press the link below, which will open a telnet window in your browser.
   
   telnet://rci.rutgers.edu
   
   
2. The system should request your "login." Type your username and press return (or enter). Then type your "Password" when prompted, and press return (or enter).
   
   
3. You should now arrive at a command line that allows you to enter information. (If for some reason you do not have a command line but are directed to a menu, you will need to "Quit" the menu in order to see the command line).
   
   
4. At the command line, enter the following code in order to make a directory called "public_html" in your account, to which you will be able to publish html files:
   
   mkdir public_html
   
   (Press Enter)
   
   You should see the command line again.
   
   
5. At the next command line enter the following code in order to change the mode of your directory so that it can be accessed and read by everyone:
   
   chmod a+rx public_html
   
   (You can also enter: chmod 755 public_html)
   
   (Press Enter)
   
   You should see the command line again.
   
   
6. Now let's check the protection of your public_html folder. Type:
   
   ls -ld public_html
   
   (Press Enter)
   
   You should see a code that says "drwxr-xr-x" which means that you have set up your public_html folder so that you can write to it and others can read it. If the protection does not read "drwxr-xr-x," you should reissue the command "chmod a+rx public_html" in order to correct this.
   
   
7. Now open a browser window and go to your site, using the following address:
   
   http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~username
   
   where username is your username on RCI.

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