Personal Web Space

Profile page

Before creating a personal web page, please first complete your profile page on the departmental website. You can include a link to your personal website there.

Setting up your personal webspace

Before starting, please read the Conditions of Use.

There should already be a link/shortcut to your webspace in public_html/ inside your home directory. Anything you put in this directory will be published at https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/<username>/<filename>.

The homepage should be named index.html (or index.shtml if using Server Side Includes). That will be displayed automatically when someone visits https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/<username>/.

Be aware that by default, any files placed in your webspace will be accessible to anyone in the world - see Website Security for further information.

Creating your webpages

Your webpages need to be written in a language called HTML. Some useful references for HTML authors follow:

• HTML Help from The Web Design Group - lots of resources, including lists of Frequently Asked Questions and Frequently Encountered Problems.
• W3C HTML Validation Service - an HTML grammar checker (if your HTML grammar is incorrect then your pages may not display properly on some web browsers)
• Viewable With Any Browser - a guide to ensuring that your pages display properly on all web browsers; not just the one you happen to be using.