Shared User Personal Pages

Shared Personal Page Hosting
Hawk can provide you or your company with a shared web site that will meet a variety of needs. If you do not want to take on the expense of having a Dedicated Virtual Domain Hosted site, you can purchase shared web site service form Hawk. 

*Shared personal page service is available only to current Hawk customers.

What is a "Shared Personal Page Hosting"?- Shared personal page hosting is non Dedicated Virtual Domain Hosting- that is, web hosting off of the Hawk Internet web site. For example, if you are a Hawk user with the username "gonzo", your shared web site with Hawk would be  www.hawkpci.net/gonzo . This is what we call a Hawk Personal Page. This service is offered free to all dial up users for non-business purposes.

Want More Details On the Features of shared web sites?
Check out our online Internet dictionary listing defining many of the above features.  If you have any questions about these features, the Shared Web Site Detail will answer most of your questions.  Of course, you may always contact us and we will be happy to personally answer any questions you may have.

We will not host web sites that contain adult material. We reserve the right to charge additional fees for extremely high bandwidth sites. We will give reasonable notice to resolve high bandwidth issues.

Introduction to Web Documents
Documents on the World Wide Web (WWW) are written in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). Programs called browsers, such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer, are designed to interpret this language and display the pages.

WWW documents must be placed onto a server, along with any image files that are to be displayed with the document. Anyone with access to the WWW can access the documents that you put onto the server.
You can familiarize yourself with several basic hosting terms at our Hosting Details Glossary.

HTML Editors
There are a number of programs that allow you to create web pages with HTML. Which program you choose depends on the degree to which you want to develop your pages.

WYSIWYG Editors
You will likely start out using a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor. An example of a WYSIWYG editor for documents is Microsoft Word, in which you use built in formatting functions to make the document look exactly how you want it to look. Available WYSIWYG editors include Netscape Gold and Microsoft Internet Assistant for Microsoft Word.

Users of Microsoft Word can download the "Word Internet Assistant" from Microsoft for no charge. This program allows you to convert your Microsoft Word files into HTML documents. That way, you can use Word to create your files! If you have Office 97, this functionality is already included (consult the Word help file for instructions).  Otherwise, you can find the Internet Assistant at Microsoft's Web Site.

HTML Editors
You can use a simple text editor, such as WordPad or NotePad, to write HTML pages. However, there are some text editors that have tools that are useful when writing HTML pages. Other HTML editors are

HTML Help and Resources

Beginner:

• A Beginner's Guide to HTML - a popular guide for newbies.
• HTML: An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners - a step-by-step guide to learning HTML by example.
• Introduction to HTML - the folks at Case Western introduce HTML in an easy outline format.
• Bare Bones Guide to HTML - this international directory features basic tutorials in over twenty languages.
• FrontPage- A good GUI (Graphical User Interface) HTML program around. Find out more at  www.microsoft.com/frontpage/
• www.download.com -This site has everything you need: drivers, games, screen savers, Win95/NT/3.1 and Mac Programs, free ware/share ware, and lots more and most of the downloads are FREE!
• Beginner's Guide to HTML
• Introduction to HTML

Intermediate:

• Top 15 Mistakes of First Time Web Design - after you've given it a shot, browse some common mistakes.
• Top Ten ways to Tell if You Have a Sucky Web Page - insightful and funny do's and don'ts of web design.
• Web Pages That Suck - learn good web page design by looking at awful web pages.
• Sun Guide to Web Style - an excellent introduction to web page design from the web team at Sun Microsystems.

Advanced:

• Webmaster Reference Library - a comprehensive reference for HTML authors and webmasters, the WMRL has carefully selected and annotated web sites plus original articles about the art of web site creation.
• User Interface Design for the WWW - a study of the redesign of a major web server, with screenshots of nine evolutionary steps.
• Yale Web Style Guide - covers graphic and information design, page layout, site organization, navigation, and multimedia content.
• Advanced Information on HTML

Below are collections of resources to help you get started building a new site or adding depth and variety to an existing one. With any one of the HTML guides mentioned below, an HTML editor from the next list, and the entire Internet as a source of authoring tricks (remember use View/Document Source) and outrageous graphics, you can start building your own web page in no time. For other useful resources in web design, be sure to check out The Web Developer's Virtual Library. Another good resource is the WebMaster Resource Center maintained by Electronic Software Publishing Corporation. If you're not up to creating your own Web site just yet, you can search "web design" using your favorite search engine and find hundreds of companies out there who will do the job for you.

HTML Writers Guild - a great place to start to learn more about HTML.
RFC1866 - The HTML 2.0 specification as written by Tim Berners-Lee and Daniel Connelly - complete text version (160 KB).
W3C HTML 2.0 Specification - The World Wide Web Consortium, led by Tim Berners-Lee, sets the standard for the web today with this hypertext crosslinked reference.
A Compendium of HTML Elements - one of our favorite sources of markup code.
Barebones Guide to HTML - a good beginner's guide to HTML.
Crash course on writing documents for the Web - a nicely written intro to HTML authoring originally published in PC Week.
NCSA--A Beginner's Guide to HTML - an excellent primer on HTML.
Composing Good HTML - tips for creating well crafted HTML pages.
Ian Graham Tutorial - Web Documentation - a in-depth online guide to HTML programming.
HTML Reference Manual - another extensive manual on HTML by Sandia Laboratories.
WebDesign Group's HTML 3.2 Reference - a good on-line guide to the new tags and elements for the latest HTML standard.
WebDesign Group's HTML 3.2 Reference - an excellent downloadable guide in Windows Help Format.
Web Thumper - HTML Reference - excellent reference page with examples of everything in a single home page format.
Web Page Notes - tips on everything from HTML to use of color, scanners, midi guestbooks, etc.
HTML Guide - tips from a Russian HTML author (may be slow loading).
Teach Yourself HTML in 21 Days - Laura's site with clips from her great book on HTML
***The HTML Reference Library 4.0*** - We saved the best for last... Stephen le Hunte's marvelous freeware!! An extensive hypertext HTML reference written in Windows Help File format which comes packaged with the Color Wizard, an indispensable tool for anyone using color on web pages.

ISO Latin 1 Character Entities - a great table with all the HTML codes for every symbol that can be used... in numerical form things like extra spaces, ö, ñ, è, ¼, ®, ©, etc. Also available as a downloadable and printable one page text file.
A Webmaster's Guide to Search Engines and Directories - a very thorough study of search engines and how they index web pages.
Search Engine Tutorial - Northern Web's great file on HTML tricks to list your page with the web search engines.
The Web Developer's Virtual Library - a webmaster's Internet encyclopedia of software technology.
Web_Pro Help Site - a good WWW Help site for HTML questions with a searchable database.
HTML Help Site - Web Design Group's WWW Help site for answering HTML authoring questions.
Experts Exchange - an innovative on-line service offering HTML advice on a fee-for-service basis with a free trial.
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html - CIWAH is a great USENET newsgroup with a lot of traffic where you can learn all the latest tricks in HTML, ask questions and share your own discoveries.
Web Design List - another excellent place to learn about HTML, share new ideas and ask for help are mailing lists. This one hosted by WebMonster is a great one.

HomeSite - an excellent editor; the new version 4 is our personal choice for power editing, now fully integrated with CSE 3310 HTML Validator.
WebWerx - an excellent and powerful freeware HTML editor from my pal Kim Jensen in Denmark - this is the one I use for all my standard editing chores.
Arachnophilia - another terrific "careware" HTML editor absolutely LOADED with features.
HTML Assistant - another good freeware HTML editor.
WebPage-O-Matic - a terrific little free wysiwyg HTML authoring program - no experience necessary.
Microsoft Front Page - an excellent wysiwyg HTML authoring program - easy to use.
WebEdit - a very highly rated powerful HTML authoring tool.
Hot Dog - a powerful shareware HTML editor which can be downloaded for a 30 day evaluation period.
Hot Metal - another good, freely distributed HTML editor.
Webber32 - "a fast friendly HTML editor for Windows" which includes a built-in validator, custom tag keys, floating toolbar, custom keyboard shortcuts, etc.
HTML Assistant Pro - a powerful commercial HTML editor.
BBEdit HTML Tools - another popular HTML editor.
HTML Editor - a good tool for Macintosh user.
Web Weaver - another full featured HTML authoring program.
Yahoo's list of editors - if you don't see it on the list above, try this list.

Adobe Site Mill - for Macintosh... now a part of Adobe PageMill, it allows you to automatically maintain correct links.
Astra SiteManager - a powerful but expensive tool for Windows to manage your Web site and check links.
BBEdit Remote Link Checker - a good link-checker tool for mac users... a BBEdit extension.
BiggByte - a link test application from Infolink for Windows - freeware versions available!!!
HomeSite - an excellent editor for Windows, also includes a superb link verification tool that we use to maintain the thousand or more links at this site.
LinkBot - tools for Windows to maintain an error free Web site including a link verification tool.
LinkTest - an inexpensive link verification tool for Windows.
SiteCheck - a good tool for mac users.
WebAnalyzer - a link test application for Windows from InContext.
Linkscan - a killer UNIX app that has been benchmarked at over 30,000 links checked per hour!!! Very small downloadable file. Requires working knowledge of UNIX though.
Doctor HTML - a good on-line validation tool that will also test all your links.
Weblint - a basic HTML validation site.
WebTechs - a very thorough HTML validation on-line tool.
CSE 3310 HTML Validator - good donwloadable Validation tool for your software arsenal - integrated with HomeSite.
Spyglass HTML Validator - another good choice for validating your work on your own hard drive.

Search Amazon.com for popular HTML coding books and resource references.

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Graphics Editors

Paint Shop Pro -  Paint Shop Pro by JASC, http://www.jasc.com/ is a great graphics editor. It can read and save almost any graphic format you could imagine. PSP is all you will need to do basic web graphics.

Other Internet Related Software
If you don't find what you are looking for on this page, check out the http://www.winfiles.com page. Windows95.com is the source for Windows 95 shareware. It also contains some great help files for new Windows 95 and Internet users.

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

Internet Relay Chat

IRCHELP- www.irchelp.org

Speed and Service
Hawk supports multiple types on Internet connections to suit your needs including 56K dial up access, connections across a Local Area Network using a single dial up ISDN  and dedicated ISDN line at speeds of up to 128Kbps, virtual domain name hosted web sites as well as shared web site hosting and domain name registration. We also provide a complete, detailed walk-through to assist you in setting up your connection to the Internet with an easy network configuration.  Click here to review 20 reasons why Hawk Internet Services' dial up access is superior to our competition. Click here for more information on the Hawk Internet network and backbone.

Customer Care
Since 1974, Hawk has been equipping customers with innovative, quality electronic products and now we extend our expertise to offer our customers quality communications technology . Throughout our history, Hawk has been committed to providing customers with world-class service and support. Hawk Internet Services is building upon this tradition by working around-the-clock to make sure your Internet connection is always working.  Click here for more information on Hawk’s Quality Customer Service.

Service and Support
Hawk's technical support aims to provide Hawk customers with the highest level of technical assistance and to work with members' network administrators to provide reliable Internet service to your business. Our technical support staff is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to give our customers real-time access to the highly qualified professionals who keep their network up and running. With one call to metro (817) 654-4295, problem resolution starts immediately. Our on call personnel will work on problems and answer any questions you might have.  Click here for more information on our Quality Technical Support.

Savings and Security
Hawk utilizes dynamically assigned Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, eliminating the need to specify an address and provides an extra level of network security.  Hawk also offers some of the lowest prices for Internet services in the industry.  You can receive additional credits to your account if you qualify for our Multi-Service Discount.

Service Reliability
We purposely overbuilt our network, so your traffic always gets through with no speed bumps to slow it down. We track and trend all dial up, dedicated, and backbone connections via network management tools and add additional capacity when needed. Although this may not be the cheapest way for us to do business, it ensures you get what you've paid for by avoiding the latency issues inherent in overdriving a network. Click here for more information on the Hawk Internet network and backbone.

Pricing- For a complete listing of all our services and prices, click here.

* Hawk Services- Hawk is constantly providing ways to add more value to our services.  We provide a wide array of personal and commercial services including wireless phones, paging, voicemail, home telephone and long distance services, security, Internet, car audio & security, and home security services. Hawk offers multi-service discounts to customers who have more than one Hawk service.  For each additional qualifying Hawk Service you add, you may receive an additional multi-service discount applied towards your Internet service charge.  For complete details on the Multi-Service Discount program, click here.

If this service is not exactly what you were looking for, why not review some of the other Internet services Hawk has to offer?

Internet Access Services- Quality Internet Access for the Dallas/Fort Worth area:

• Dial Up Internet Access- Dial up analog and dial up ISDN access for your home or small business at low cost.
• Extended Dedicated Internet Access- Dedicated ISDN access provides enough bandwidth to connect an entire office to the Internet.

(Note: Dial up and dedicated Internet access is available in the Dallas and Fort Worth markets only)

Internet Web Site Hosting Services - Quality web hosting available in any area

Virtual Hosting- Domain Name hosted web sites for businesses who are serious about their Internet presence.

Shared Hosting- The most affordable way of having your own web site:

• Business Pages
• Personal Pages

Domain Name Registration- If you or your business want an Internet presence, you first need to register your domain.  It's a complicated process, but Hawk is here to assist you with all your domain registration needs.

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