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What do you want on your web page?

What do you want on your web page? Nina McHale December 2007 What is a personal/professional web page? Highlights and advertises your professional accomplishments to the world Gives you a “Google-able” web presence

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What do you want on your web page?

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  1. What do you want on your web page? Nina McHale December 2007

  2. What is a personal/professional web page? • Highlights and advertises your professional accomplishments to the world • Gives you a “Google-able” web presence • Provides a space online to showcase documents, presentations, etc. that detail your professional life • Develops your web skills • Fun to create and maintain!

  3. Today’s agenda: • Why do this: reasons for creating a personal/professional web presence • How to do this: what you’ll need ready in January/February to create your page at our next workshop • Fun with Post-its®!

  4. What to put on your home page: • Basic information: name, title, affiliation, contact info • Your job description/duties • Links to your presentations/publications • A copy of your vita (a link to a Word document is fine) • A picture-give a human touch! • A summary of current professional interests • A *couple* of hobbies, personal details, and/or photos

  5. What NOT to put on your web page: • Anything you wouldn’t want your mom to read/see • Anything you wouldn’t want your worst enemy to read/see • Too much personal information • Too much, period: quota=20 MB • Anything that violates UCDHSC-DDC web policies: • Any material, including images, that is not clearly in the public domain (unless you’ve received permission from the creator) • Anything illegal • Any means of personal commercial gain

  6. Where to put your web page: • Every UC Denver employee has personal web space available on the Carbon server • “Can’t we put them up with the Library’s web page?” • No; personal files should be separate since they’re maintained by you alone • “Hasn’t/isn’t Carbon gone/going away?” • Carbon IS eventually being retired • However, this personal space will be maintained elsewhere • Back up your files locally

  7. But I don’t know HTML! • Nina will create some templates that use XHTML+CSS • You won’t have to know XHTML+CSS to use them! • Okay, so what the heck is XHTML+CSS? • eXtensible HyperText Markup Language • Cascading Style Sheets

  8. A Web Server is Like a Filing Cabinet

  9. Once it’s up: • Add the URL to your business card next time you reorder; your URL will follow this pattern: • http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~nmchale • Have Nina add a link from the Library phone directory page • Put a note in Outlook to remind yourself every month to check and make sure it’s up to date. • Check for broken links • Check for outdated information • Add some new content

  10. What you need before the January workshops: • Web editing software installed on your workstation • A connection to your personal space on the Carbon web server • An appropriate digital photo, if desired • If you need one or more of these things: • Ask Nina install web authoring software • Contact the ITS Help Desk (303-315-HELP) to reset your Carbon password • Contact Jeffrey or Farhad to have a photo taken

  11. Getting design ideas: Fun with Post-its® • Using about a dozen Post-its®, write down terms and concepts that describe you, your job, and the kinds of things you want to include on your web page • Arrange the terms in logical groups • Sketch a rough layout (horizontally) on a piece of 8.5x11 paper; what’s a logical layout for the information about you?

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