Web set up

Introduction

Many friends ask me how I set up my personal website. In fact, my personal website is very elementary. There are many fancy ways to set up a website, for example, google site, wordpress, github. They all have easy tutorials to lead you to set up your website quickly. Comparing to them, my website is very elementary. You don't need to follow every step how I did. I would explain how I did here since many friends asked.

Connecting to Server

Here, I use WinSCP to connect to math server. You can download and install WinSCP on the internet. It is easy for you to transfer documents form your computer to the server for windows system. Connect to MSU internet, and create a new session in WinSCP, input sftp.math.msu.edu, then you can connect to math server. You need input your username and password, which is the same as you log in the computer in the printer room on the fifth floor. If you are off campus and you need connect to MSU internet by MSU VPN. Just google "MSU VPN", there is a webpage with clear tutorial to teach you how to set up MSU VPN.

Create a website

My website is too elementary, I don't even download any editor for website. Once you log in, create a document and name it as index.html. Then open it, you can edit what you want in the document. For the language of html, it is similar to latex. For me, all I use is head, paragraph, table, hyperlink. There are many tutorials on the internet. You can google and learn it.

Templates

There are many good templates on the internet. If you see some websites that are good, and you want to learn from them. Right click the website and click inspect, you will see their code directly (Don't directly copy, there may be an issue with copyright). I use templates given by my previous roommate Joshua Ruiter. He helps me set up the website. My personal website is quite like his. Here are templates. index.txt and style.css

Go Back Home