Personal Website

Southwestern Students, Faculty and Staff have the capablity of setting up a personal website. Personal website information is stored in your home directory on HELIOS under the folder public_html.

Individual website URL’s look like this: http://www.southwestern.edu/~SUeID. A home page for a personal webpage must be named index.html.

NVU is a free open-source program to edit web pages. It runs on both Macs and PCs and can be downloaded from http://nvudev.com/download.php.

In the world of web site creation, the term “publish” is used when you want the world to be able to view your website from a browser. When you are working on your website files, changing the content and saving your work does not necessarily mean that the changes are “on your site”. Most web site design and creation software, such as NVU, publishes your web site content using a protocol called ftp and needs to know the location where to publish the files.

For directions on setting up a site in NVU click here.