This guide is heavily based on Mehmud's guide.

You University of Pittsburgh account gives you access to a space of about 5MB from its file servers, where you can host your web page(s).

In order to access your space via FTP, type in following information in the corresponding text fields in a FTP client, for example FileZilla:

Then click on "Quickconnect" (or something else depending on the FTP software you're using) button to connect to the Pitt FTP server. By default, it will take you to your home folder (the name of this home folder is equal to your Pitt account username) after successfully connected.

If you go inside the "public" folder under your home folder, usually you can see a "html" folder. This "html" folder is the root folder for your web pages, i.e. all the web pages you want public to see should be placed in this folder. If you don't have this "html", you can easily create it in FileZilla or in other FTP software by right clicking the "public" folder, and choose "Create directory" (or something else depending on the FTP software you're using) from the pop-up menu.

Let's take an example. Assume your Pitt user name is "fma99", you want to publish a web page called "index.html", then what you can do is just upload the "index.html" file to "html" directory under "public", which is under the home directory "fma99", using the FTP software. Then type:

http://www.pitt.edu/~fma99/index.html  

in the address field of your browser. You should be able to see the "index.html" page you just uploaded. By default, when people type in "http://www.pitt.edu/~fma99", the web server will return the "index.html" page to your browser. Your home page on Pitt web site will be:

http://www.pitt.edu/<Your Pitt username>