How to access your personal page if you have an “@tds.net” email address

Personal Page Help for customers with an “@tds.net” email address

Personal Page Features 

• Your own personal Web site, with 5MB storage space.
• A unique personal URL, in the following predefined format: http://personalpages.tds.net/~[YOUR USER NAME]/.
• 100MB Monthly Data Transfer.
• Access to our prewritten personalpages CGI scripts.

The following are NOT included with personal Web pages:

• Technical Support: TDS Internet Services is only responsible for providing Web storage space. No technical support is available for Web design or ftp procedures, besides TDS Support.
• Microsoft FrontPage Extensions
• Custom CGI scripts
• Web Statistics
• Data storage over 5 MB or data transfer over 100 MB/month
• Domain name services

If you need any of these features, you need our commercial Web hosting package.

Enabling Your Personal Page

Enabling your personal page is easy! Go to Manage Your Account and click on 'Enable Personal Page'. You will see a link appear under your username. This is the address that you will use to access your page on the Internet. Click here to go to Manage Your Account now. If you are prompted to log in, log in with the username and password that you use to sign on to the Internet. Alternatively, you can use your e-mail address and e-mail account password.

There is a 20 minute delay between the time you click "activate personal page" and the time that personal page will become available.

Your Personal Page will be at the following address where the username is the same as the username you currently use to log onto the Internet: http://personalpages.tds.net/~username/.

Example: Mary Smith might have a username of marysmith. After enabling her personal page in Manage Your Account, she can then access her page by entering http://personalpages.tds.net/~marysmith/ into a Web browser.

You will need some software to create Web pages (Microsoft FrontPage, Netscape Composer etc.) Many such editors are available. You will also need some ftp client software (WS_FTP, SmartFTP, Fetch etc.) A good sources of such software is:
TUCOWS - http://tds.tucows.com/
Once you have created your pages, you will then need to upload them using your FTP client.

You may choose not to use our template to create your personal web page, however, this method is not recommended for the novice web page designer. If custom web page development using HTML programming is your choice, then, you must have an FTP program and a web page creation tool loaded on your computer before you begin.  You can download FTP software at http://tds.tucows.com/

Your FTP User ID and Password will be the same as your dial-up account.

For FTP account verification only, call: TDS Internet Services Help Desk 1-888-815-5992. The Help Desk will not support general FTP or design questions, only verify the existence of your account.

Once you have a FTP client and it is properly configured, you must design and write a web page in HTML. TDS Internet Services recommends Web Page Creation programs such as Hot Dog Editor, Netscape Communicator, or Microsoft FrontPage (we will not support the extensions/bots within this editor). TDS Internet Services, however, will not support or trouble shoot problems with these tools. Please contact the software vendor directly and ask about support pricing options.

Personal Pages FTP Instructions:
TDS Internet Services Personal Pages have specific instructions for their FTP accounts. Use the following Information when FTPing to the TDS Internet Services Personal Pages Server:

Host Name: personalpages.tds.net
User ID: Your Dial-up User ID
Password: Your Dial-up Password

FTP Information should be entered as shown below:

Host Name - personalpages.tds.net
Host Type - Automatic detect
User ID - Your Dial-up User ID (including the "@tds.net" portion)
Password - Your Dial-up Password
Account - BLANK
Remote Host - BLANK
Local PC - C:\Directory on your hardrive where your pages are located
Anonymous Login - Blank

All files need to be uploaded the the "public_html" folder you will see on the server or "remote" side of your FTP program.

"index.html" must be the name of your home page.

Your Personal Page can be used as an alternative to emailing large attachments, such as images.

Upload the file the using FTP, just as with your HTML page. The website address will include the filename.

Example: If Mary Smith uploaded a picture called newpic.jpg then the website address is http://personalpages.tds.net/~marysmith/newpic.jpg

If you want to upload an image, the file can be saved in 3 popular varieties.

Those are: .JPG, .GIF, and .BMP. They actually are different, mostly in that a .BMP (bitmap) is much much larger in size than either of the other 2 options.

Remember, your Personal Page does have a 5 Megabyte limit and just 1 BMP file could be several Megabytes. Therefore, if you have a program that will allow you to change your file to a JPG or a GIF, you will have room for a lot more pictures! If you have Windows XP, Microsoft paint allows you to change your pictures to a GIF or a JPG, but there are other third party programs that can make those files even smaller.

Note
TDS Internet Services DOES NOT DESIGN PERSONAL WEB PAGES AT THIS TIME, NOR DO WE CURRENTLY OFFER A PERSONAL Web PAGE CREATION PROGRAM TO OUR CUSTOMERS. Design/programming of your personal page is your responsibility.