Adding to Your Userinfo Web Page

Note: This document only applies to UBC Computer Science users.

You can personalize your userinfo WWW page by creating a file in your home directory called .userinfo. What you need to put in there is data in HTML format. This may sound complicated, but it isn't. You can read a primer on HTML to learn everything you need to know and more.

However, I'll present a micro-primer here to get you started. For the most part, you just enter ordinary text. To start a paragraph, put a <P> in the text. If you ever use &, < or > in your text, you must replace them with &amp;, &lt; and &gt; respectively.

Thus ends the micro-primer. Here's an example .userinfo file: 

          I'm a faculty member at this department.  I spend most of my time
	  teaching &amp; researching.
	  <P>
	  I have many research interests which I'd list here but I don't
	  have the time.

And here is how it would look:

I'm a faculty member at this department. I spend most of my time teaching & researching.

I have many research interests which I'd list here but I don't have the time.

If you go on to read the primer or you already know about HTML, notice that your .userinfo file is not a complete document but only the tail end of one. Certain elements like <TITLE> are not appropriate.

Besides this hook, you can also export your own documents to the entire world.

-- George Phillips