title: How can I make a public HTML folder in Ubuntu?
body: <p>Simple question, but for some reason I couldn't find the exact answer on Google:</p>
  
  <p>I have a fresh Ubuntu install on Slicehost, and would like to make a public directory in my home dir for a simple website containing a bunch of static HTML files. How do I do this? Is it just a matter of typing <code>mkdir public_html</code> and setting the permissions, or is there a cleaner way? (I remember in the past I've had issues where every time I copied a file into my public_html directory, I would have to manually set its permissions, which was quite frustrating.)</p>