http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~help/web_publishing/
web_publishing_intro.html

Create the web pages

You should create a page in the www directory called "index.html". This will be the "index page" for that directory. You can then create other web pages in the directory that index.html links to. If you are editing pages under Unix, the recommended text editor is emacs.

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