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Vineyard.NET is slowly transitioning towards a more standards compliant website that separates the look and feel of the site from the content.

This is done using a technology called Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Unfortunately, support for CSS in older browsers (specifically, anything prior to a version 5.0) ranges from poor and incomplete to simply wrong and painful for both viewers and designers. Ultimately, there is no way to reliably design a CSS-based layout for older web browsers. Vineyard.NET will continue to ensure the overall functionality of its website for older browsers but the overall experience will be a little more spartan than before.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and invite you to consider upgrading your web browser. For what it's worth, we like Mozilla but just about any modern browser, including Internet Explorer, should suffice.

How to create your own Vineyard.NET Web pages

Creating your own personal WWW pages

(Click here to see the Long Version)

Here Are the Short Instructions:

  1. Create your web page on your own machine.
  2. Start up a program that speaks the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) such as Fetch (for MacOS) or ws_ftp (for Windows).
  3. Open a connection to the computer personal.vineyard.net
  4. Login with your username
  5. Type your password
  6. You will automatically be placed in the directory ~yourname
  7. Move to the subdirectory named personal
  8. The first page that you create should be called index.html
  9. Place your files into the directory. If you wish to make a subdirectory, go ahead.
  10. You may put up to 15 megabytes of data into your directories.

The Long Version:

  1. Your first order of business will be to create your web page on your own machine. The Hyper Text Mark-up Language (HTML) is fairly straight forward as computer languages go, but you will want to read up on it a bit. We have asked the Bunch of Grapes and the local libraries to please try and stock books on HTML. Most web browsers also allow you to look at the source for any page on the net. This will allow you to study the work of other people.

    You can write your HTML documents with any text processor (that's how I am writing this). There are also a number of tools designed to create HTML document, and many of those tools are shareware or freeware. You can find many of these free tools at Tucows. Many word processor also allow you to save work with HTML syntax instead of their normal format.

    You can test your creation with the web browser you normally use. The actual technique will vary according to the browser.

  2. Once you have created your web page, you will want to copy it onto personal.vineyard.net in order to display it on the Internet. The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a reliable method for moving files from one computer to another. personal.vineyard.net is running a custom version of the FTP daemon. You will need to use an FTP client that will allow you to put a file onto an ftp server such as Fetch (for Mac) or ws_ftp (for Windows). Web browsers will generally allow you to get a file from a server, but usually do not have the ability to transfer a file in the other direction.

  3. Using the FTP client of your choice, open a connection to the computer personal.vineyard.net. The technique for doing so will vary depending on the program you choose to use. Look for command called open or connect. There should also be a space where you can specify the host, remote host, or server. There may also be text entry areas for your username, password, and directory. It may be convenient for you to enter all the information at once and have your favorite ftp program save it for future use. You should use the same login and password that allows you into Vineyard.NET. If you wish to only make changes to your personal website, you can set the directory to personal, or just change your current directory to personal after logging in.

    Some FTP clients will wait until you have made a connection to the server before prompting you for your username and password.

  4. The first page that you create should be called index.html. By default most Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (http) daemons will look for a file called index.html when only a directory is specified. That way when your friends and relations want to see what your page looks like they point their browser at http://personal.vineyard.net/yourname/. In addition, our software automatically builds a table of links to all the personal directories which contain a file called index.html

    DOS users never fear, you do not have to use the name index.html on your own machine (DOS can't handle a 4 character suffix). You can use whatever name you like on your own machine and give the file the correct name at the time that you upload it to personal.vineyard.net with your ftp program.

  5. You do not have to be limited to a single file called index.html. You can have as many files as you like. If it is helpful for you to organize your web information, you may want to create subdirectories. Feel free.

  6. You may put up to 15 megabytes of data into your directories.

If you have any question, please speak with your authorized Vineyard.NET reseller.