Configuring Eudora Lite

After you open Eudora Lite, click on "Special," then "Settings." Click the icon named, "Getting Started," on the left icon bar. On the first line, enter your username, then "@mail.cu-online.com" without the quotes and WITH NO CAPITAL P. Then enter your actual name in the second line as you want it to appear to people who receive mail from you.

Next click on "Hosts," on the left icon bar, and make sure "mail.cu-online.com" is on the SMTP line.

Click on the icon "Sending Mail," and make sure the SMTP server is "mail.cu-online.com" (without the quotes.) Your return address can be your local address, e. g. @monticello.net, @paxton.net, @hoopeston.com, @sullivanil.com, @villagrove.com, etc. Your Eudora is now configured. After you finish a message to send, press CTRL E, then CTRL T to send your mail.

Do you want create your own homepage? First you must be in the UNIX shell on the Hoopeston Online server. To use this system through the WWW, you must have a telnet helper on your browser. If you're using Netscape and Windows 95, go to "options/general preferences/apps, and type in or select C:\Program Files\ISPSetup95 for Cu-Online\Ewan\Ewan.exe in the Telnet application line. To get there, click on the image below, or open your Ewan telnet program (looks like the icon below, in your CU-Online group). Make (edit) a new connection called CU-Online, and make your network address cu-online.com

Log on to the system with your user name (without the capital P).

Your home page must be named index.html, and placed in a directory and named index.html. To make thesubdirectory, type: mkdir .html To access and edit the files in the .html directory, type: cd .html to change directories.

We're assuming you have your index.html home page designed and ready to post. If you don't, see how to learn how to make your own World Wide Web page. You'll need to transfer it to your .html directory using an FTP program. Use CuteFTP (shown below), in your CU-Online group.

Pico is a UNIX editor program. You can edit your files using the command pico index.html

For .html, .htm, .gif, .jpg, .map, and .txt files the permissions need to be set for read, and not executable. You can change the permissions with the following command:

chmod 644 *.html or chmod 644 *.gif

There is a list of scripts available for your pages, and various counters.  If you want work with scripts, create a directory under .html, call it cgi-bin, send E-mail to www@cu-online.com, and a ScriptAlias will be set up to work with that directory.

To use this system you must have a telnet helper on your browser. If you're using Netscape and Windows 95, go to "options/general preferences/apps, and type in or select C:\Program Files\ISPSetup95 for Cu-Online\Ewan\Ewan.exe in the Telnet application line. If you're still using Windows 3.1, follow the above instructions, but use the EWAN.EXE program in the CU-Online directory.

The best monitor setting for the Web is 800 X 600 with 64,000 colors. Here's why. You may have already noticed that your monitor can be set to different screen resolutions and set to display different numbers of colors. If you don't know what we're talking about, don't worry. We'll walk you through it.

Screen Resolution

Most people think of resolution in terms of photographs or television. In those media, resolution means sharpness. But in the computer world, screen resolution refers to the dimensions of the pixels displayed on a monitor. Your computer probably came set to a resolution of 640 X 480 pixels. That means that your computer will display a screen of 640 pixels wide and 480 pixels high on the monitor -- whether you have a 14", 15", or 17" monitor. The size of the monitor does not determine the screen resolution. But the bigger the monitor, the bigger the screen resolution you can use. Try it for yourself, if you have a 14 or 15 inch monitor, switch the resolution from 640 X 480 to 800 X 600 and to 1024 X 768 if your video card supports it. You will quickly see that everything gets smaller as the resolution goes up. That's because the monitor is displaying a larger number of pixels in the same screen space. Most people find everything is too small at 1024 X 768 on a 14 inch monitor, but try it on a 17 inch monitor and you'll find you have tons of screen real estate you can use.

On the Web you want as large a resolution as you can get. The larger the resolution, the more you can fit on the screen. Web pages are almost always too large to fit on one screen. A larger resolution is better. We recommend using a resolution of 800 X 600 if you have a 14" or a 15" monitor, and a resolution of 1024 X 768 for 17" and larger monitors.

Under settings, there is a control panel folder with an icon called Display. Double click on the icon. Then click the settings tab to see the current screen resolution.

Try changing the resolution to the largest you can, probably 1024 X 768. Unless you have a 17" or larger monitor, everything will be too small to see. But you will have a lot of screen space.

Screen Colors

Setting the number of colors is also important. Unless you are working with professional graphics and photography and have a computer with lots of memory, forget about 16 million colors. The best practical resolution to use on the Web is 64,000 colors. You can get near photographic quality using thousands of colors, and you'll find many web graphics look much better than when your display is set to only 256 colors. One thing to keep in mind, many multimedia CD-ROMs with animations require you to set your display to 256 colors. Even though you may need to change your color settings once in awhile, you will find the web much more visually exciting if you surf at thousands of colors.

Check for upgrades on your browser of choice. If you're using Netscape 2.0, upgrade to 3.0. If you're using MS Explorer 2.0, upgrade to 3.0. These version support the newer features that are being written into web pages.

In my humble opinion, text is much more readable on the Web in Arial (or Helvetica). Most browsers default to Times font, which is a "serif" font. (serifs are those little things that hang off the top of a capital T). Although Times is most readable in smaller print in newspapers and magazines, it makes for too many pixels in a character on your screen.

AOL is fine for their bulletin boards and chats, but their Internet is only a gateway. The Internet is much faster if you use a TCP/IP connection and Netscape or MS Explorer.

If you're using a 14.4 modem or lower, upgrade now. Web pages are just getting too big to be using anything less.

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