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WWW Setup FAQ

Service Description

All users have the ability to serve their own WWW pages on Infomatch. These pages can be up to 1 Megabyte in size (that includes all text and pictures that make up the page(s)), and have up to 40 Megabytes of network traffic per month. The 1 megabyte is currently a firm limit, there is no way to exceed this at this time.

You can check the traffic from your Web pages on our stats page. Pages that exceed the 40 Megabyte traffic limitation are throttled (disabled) for the remainder of the month.

Do's and Dont's

What you can do with your free pages: What you cannot do with your free pages:

How to make and upload a page

Getting your pages online is a two step process:

1. Creating the page itself

WWW pages are made up of what is called HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) code. This code allows you to format a page as you see fit, and include pictures and graphics.
To see the code for this page, go up and choose the "Document Source" command from the View pulldown menu of your copy of Netscape.
Users generally use something like the Windows Notepad application (or comparable software on other machines) to type out their pages. As well there are many tools that will help you interactively create pages. Some of the more popular ones can be obtained from:

WebMania - Great HTML editing tool. Includes frame wizard
WebForms - Create forms without using CGI's.
Doc's WebDev Page
Windows 3.1 HTML Editors
Windows 95 HTML Editors
Macintosh HTML Editors
A Beginner's Guide to HTML
Composing Good HTML
Extensions to HTML 2.0
Extensions to HTML 3.0

2. Uploading your pages to the system

In order for your pages to be served by our machines and seen by others throughout the world it is necessary to upload your completed HTML documents to our system.
Each user has a web subdirectory inside their private directory, your pages must be uploaded to this directory in order to be served. The easiest way to do this is with FTP sofware such as Wsftp for Windows, or Fetch for Mac. In your FTP program, set the hostname (machine name for FTP) that you want to connect to as infomatch.com. The username that you want to use is your shell login, not anonymous. For the password, you want to use your actual password, not your email address.
Once connected you will want to change directories to your web directory; change into it using your FTP program. You are now in the directory you want to upload your files into. Upload away.
Your newly uploaded files should now be available on the WWW by going to: http://www.infomatch.com/~your-login-name

3. Hit Counters

Several types of fonts are currently available:

HTML Source:

<img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?dd=A|df=x.dat">
<img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?dd=B|df=x.dat">
<img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?dd=B|frgb=69;139;116&df=x.dat">
<img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?dd=C|df=x.dat">
<img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?dd=D|ft=3|df=x.dat">
<img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?ft=2&frgb=000000&dd=E|df=x.dat">

These will look like (in order):

Full information on setting webcount is available at:

The Webcount Home Page