Your URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is the following: http://personal.riverusers.com/~[username]/ where [username] is exactly what is says - your username (without the brackets). For example, if a user whose email address is webmaker@theriver.com puts up a page, then the URL would be: http://personal.riverusers.com/~webmaker/ and that's the web address that user would give their friends.

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is simply a way for one computer to send file(s) to another. The exact steps you need to take vary from client to client, but the basic procedure is this:

1. Have your client software connect to personal.riverusers.com
2. Log in using your username and password
3. Put the file(s) you want to have on the web in your /home/[username]/public_html directory
4. Rename your main HTML (HyperText Markup Language) document to index.html
5. Make sure all of the files you need are up there
6. Log out of your FTP client software and visit your new site!

No. Unless they have your password, then nobody else can change your web pages. Remember - keep your password secret!

Check these things first:

1. Did I upload them along with the index.html file?
2. In the index.html file, are the pictures correctly referred to? (Remember - our web server is case sensitive!)
3. Did I use the <IMG SRC="[image]"> tag correctly? (Rembered both quotes, spelled everything right, etc.)

It means that either your space hasn't been activated, or that something in the URL was misspelled.

There are many ways. For instance, if a user made a page about fish and aquariums, then they might post a message in rec.aquaria, a newsgroup about aquariums. Alternatively, if a user made a page about weekly scores from playing dominoes with their friends, they might simply tell or email them.