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Your website here.


You can use Mac OS X Personal Web Sharing to publish web pages or share files on the Internet — or on your company’s or school’s local area network — from a folder on your hard disk.

You can display your documents on the Internet — or restrict access to a chosen few within a local area network. Mac OS X Personal Web Sharing makes it a snap.

Here’s how it works: Create your website by changing this page (it's called "index.html" and it's in the Sites folder in your home folder) and creating any other HTML pages you want.

Once you’re online, turn on Personal Web Sharing, then send your web address to other people.

That’s it. You’re done — your page is ready for viewing.

HTML, anyone?

HTML is easy — so easy that even a first-time user can do it. That's because you don’t have to learn HTML to use it.

Leading word processing applications, such as Microsoft Word and AppleWorks 6, actually generate HTML webpages for you with just a few clicks of a mouse.

HTML — short for hypertext markup language — is what webmasters and designers use to publish text and graphics on the Internet in a form that can be read by any web browser.

To create an HTML webpage in Microsoft Word, all you have to do is choose Save as HTML from the File menu. Word will save your work as an HTML page, ready for publishing on the Internet.

In AppleWorks 6, choose Save As from the File menu, then choose HTML from the pop-up menu. Next, just type in the name you want to save the page with and click the Save button, and it’s like boom — instant HTML.

Quick Start Guide to
Personal Web Sharing

1. Create the HTML pages for your website and put them in the Sites folder in your home folder.

Substitute your own content for the text, graphics, and links in this page (index.html) to create a customized welcome page. Create other HTML page following your application's instructions for linking pages and graphics.

2. Make sure you have a working network connection. If you need help, see your network administrator.

3. Open System Preferences and click Sharing. Select Personal Web Sharing and click Start.

4. Note the address for your website under the services list in Sharing preferences. Be sure to copy the address exactly as it appears.

Give this address to the people on your network (make sure they don’t forget that last “/”). They can connect to your server and view your published documents by typing this address in their web browser.