TLC 101: Welcome to Your Website!

1. TLC 101: Welcome to Your Website!

2. Where is My Webspace • http://academic.csc.edu • http://academic.csc.edu/howto (upload files instructions using Filezilla) • http://academic.csc.edu/mcarnot/ • You can add content here as subpages • http://academic.csc.edu/mcarnot/MaryJoCarnot.html • These two pieces not fully operational yet. • http://academic.csc.edu/mcarnot/blog • http://academic.csc.edu/mcarnot/wiki

3. Why do you want need your own website? • Websites can be used to communicate who you are to the world • Public academic webspace that is separate from basic campus information used for marketing, etc. • What you might put on your webspace • Perhaps academic biography and vita • Information about research interests and publications • Information about classes • General resources for student • Others? It’s up to you!

4. Some examples of faculty webspaces: Individual Dr. Jereme Douglass http://jeremydouglass.com/ Dr. ChristofKoch http://www.klab.caltech.edu/~koch/koch/ Dr. Janet Murray http://lmc.gatech.edu/~murray/ Dr. George Landowhttps://research.brown.edu/myresearch/George_Landow Dr. Diana Hollinger http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/diana.hollinger/ Dr. Walt Hines http://whines-irsc.weebly.com/

5. Sites that evolved • George Landow’s Victorian Web http://www.victorianweb.org/index.html • Michael Wesch’s Mediated Cultures http://mediatedcultures.net/ • Edward Ayres’ The Valley of the Shadow http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/

6. Faculty Websites Repositories • MIT Media Lab http://www.media.mit.edu/people/faculty • UC Irvine Faculty Websites http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/ • Tarleton State http://faculty.tarleton.edu/

7. Planning Your Website • University of Colorado – Boulder Creating Your Academic Website • http://assett.colorado.edu/learn/tutorials/create-your-website/ • Many things to consider • Goals, visitors, navigation, content, layout and design • Focus today • Goals and basic content • Getting material from other sources into html • File structure organization, file naming conventions (avoid spaces, short meaningful names) • Creating basic html file • Uploading to your webspace

8. Planning your webspace • Goals: What do you want to accomplish? • Take a few moments to think about what you want to do with your website. One goal many people have is to communicate the following: • About Me: Personal introduction and select details on professional and/or personal history • Research Activities: Overview of and links to current and past research and projects • Teaching Activities: Overview of current and past classes and approach to teaching • Take a few minutes to write a brief document about these activities and include at least one picture and one link to another file (perhaps a syllabus for one of your classes)

9. How do I get material up to my webspace • Set up file structure on your computer to hold content • Top folder for Webspace • Perhaps subfolders for media (important to consider linking) • HTML editor (KomPozer) • Use to create html files • Can copy and paste from word • Can save word file as html but html codes ugly, won’t work everywhere • Relative link structure versus linking to server • http://academic.csc.edu/mcarnot/***.jpg • FTP (Filezilla) • We’ll address how to use this later in the session (Bryant) - getting files up • Open source, free