The computers in the computer lab are all running Windows. You should be able to log in using your University user-id and password. Make sure the domain is set to CSRVADYORK.
You should all have signed up for the "Personal web space" that the University offers. On central University computers, your University filespace is your home directory under Linux, and mounted under Windows as drive "M" -- double-click on "My Computer" and then "abc500 on 'userfs' (M:)" to access it, where "abc500" is your user-id.
You will need to go into the "web" directory and create a web page called "index.html" -- this is the default page the University web server will present to any browser visiting your web site.
You can use any text editor to write your home page. Word processors are usually not suitable, because it can be difficult to persuade them to write plain text without cluttering it up with font and formatting commands. Both Notepad and MicroEmacs are installed on these computers, but neither does syntax highlighting. A free alternative is Notepad2, simply click on the link to download a local copy to your computer.
Now we have enough information to create a blank HTML page:
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Create a blank page like this, and save it in your University web directory with the name index.html. You can view this page by going to the URL
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~abc100, where "abc100" is your user-id. You don't need to put "index.html" in the URL - this is the page the York web server gives by default.
Now add a title to your page.
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