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Personal Webpage Setup

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Ever thought about designing your own personal web page? Here at Caltel we offer you, the customer, 5MB of free web space per account. Caltel does not design or support the creation of your web page, but there are countless examples and tutorials available for free on the internet. Here are some HTML Examples.  More information can also be found at webmonkey.com and w3schools.com.

Creating an HTML Document:

  1. Start by opening Notepad.
  2. Click 'Start', go to 'All Programs', then 'Accessories' and click on 'Notepad'.
  3. The following text below is an example of HTML tags and text used in an HTML document.
    <html>
    <head>
    <title>Welcome</title>
    </head>
    <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
    <font color="#000000">
    <strong>Welcome...</strong>Site under construction.
    </font>
    </body>
    </html>
  4. You can copy the example above and paste it in to your Notepad document.  Anything with < > is a tag such as; <title></title> is the beginning and ending of a title HTML tag.
  5. Welcome is the text.
  6. At the top Click File and Save As...
  7. At the top where it says Save In, point it to your desktop.
  8. At the bottom where it says File name: Type in the field, index.html and then click Save.
  9. You should now have an index.html file on your desktop.


The file name 'index.html' has special meaning! This is the name of your start page.

Connect via FTP:

Use FTP to put your files on our server. The instructions below are for Internet Explorer, but feel free to use any ftp client.

  1. Open Internet Explorer.
  2. At the top where it says address click in there and delete the text out.
  3. Now type, ftp://youremailaddress (ftp:// This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), then press the enter key.
  4. Type in your username and password.
  5. Your password is the same one you have for your email.
  6. Click Ok.


Here are the Generic FTP settings if you are using an FTP client.

Hostname: caltel.com (DO NOT include the www.)
Username: yourusername
Password: yourpassword

Click HERE for a free FTP client called FileZilla. It is approximately a 4MB executable file. (This may take some time for dial-up customers.)

You should have an HTML document on your desktop called, index.html, and an FTP connection open.

Internet Explorer Instructions:
  1. Right click the document you wish to upload and left click Copy.
  2. Right click and paste the document in to Internet Explorer.
FTP Client Instructions:
  1. Drag and drop the document in, or use cut and paste to place the document.
Managing Your Website:
  1. It's always a good idea to save and backup your HTML documents.
  2. Save your HTML documents to a folder you can easily access from your computer.
  3. Remember you must have an index.html file in your web folder or your webpage will not work.
  4. Once you delete something from our server, it is gone for good. Keep a copy on your computer
Visual Editor:

A great Visual Editor for building your website is NVU you can download it HERE.
Another name for a Visual Editor is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get).

Here is how you set up NVU to access your website:

  1. Start NVU.
  2. Click on 'Edit' then 'Publish Site Settings'
  3. Click the 'New Site' button.
  4. In 'Site Name', put in a unique identifier for this web site. This is used to identify the web site because NVU can support more than one web page in the site manager.
  5. In the field titled 'HTTP address of your homepage' put in your full web site address, beginning with http://
  6. In the 'Publishing address' box, put in the following: ftp://ftp.caltel.com
  7. In 'User name' put in your login name
  8. In the password box, type in your password and check 'remember password'.
  9. Click 'OK'

You will then see your site listed on the side manager on the left-hand side of NVU. If you click on the [+] next to your site name, you will see a listing of all the files on the server. Double-click an .html file to edit it.