Designing a Web Site and Linking to the SCV Section Site Rockwell Hsu, Ph.D. SCV Webmaster IEEE SCV New Officer Training Feb. 23, 2002

IEEE SCV Section New Officer Training 2 Outlines What is IEEE EHW IEEE EHW Policy Other EHW Services Setting up a website Generate a web page Publishing the page on the web Examples and Tips

Feb. 23, 2002 IEEE SCV Section New Officer Training 3 IEEE EHW EWH: IEEE Entity Web Hosting –This service is intended to meet the needs of IEEE entities who want to develop, create and maintain their own web site on an IEEE host. –The general philosophy is that posting entities will be responsible for their content, its maintenance and its conformance to IEEE policy. –Entities are expected to choose a single webmaster who is skilled in managing web content. This webmaster will be the entity contact and the only one authorized to post content to the web site. The webmaster will be expected to work with IEEE staff to insure that site security measures are effective.

Feb. 23, 2002 IEEE SCV Section New Officer Training 4 Appropriate Use Policy (Oct. 24, 2000) Impersonation Privacy Violations Excessive disk utilization –The disk limit for Regions, Societies and Technical Councils is 60MB. –The disk limit for Sections, IEEE Board Level Committees and Geographic Councils is 10MB Network Unfriendly Activity

Feb. 23, 2002 IEEE SCV Section New Officer Training 5 Other EWH Services IEEE Internet Conference; E-Conference –E-Conferencing is using various tools such as Internet Relay Chat to conduct online meetings. Learn more about E- Conferencing at the Region 3 E-Conferencing Committee site and at the IEEE Internet Conferencing site.Region 3 E-Conferencing Committee siteIEEE Internet Conferencing site URL Alias – –Fill out application form at

Feb. 23, 2002 IEEE SCV Section New Officer Training 6 Setting Up Chapters Website Assign a webmaster who is responsible for the site Request a SCV sub website account (ask Rockwell) –account name and password –URL: Generate a chapter home page: index.html (on your PC) FTP the web page and data to EWH server Pilot run your website Inform SCV webmaster of linking your web site

Feb. 23, 2002 IEEE SCV Section New Officer Training 7 SCV Site Map ~/scv/ /graphics/ /ssc/ /graphics/ /data/ index.html Slides.pdf scv_xxx.html scv_ssc.html /vts/ Sub account move to sub account

Feb. 23, 2002 IEEE SCV Section New Officer Training 8 URL Guideline

Feb. 23, 2002 IEEE SCV Section New Officer Training 9 Generate a Web Page Contents Layout –Use a template layout SCV Section template IEEE template generator Use web page design tool (HTML editor)

Feb. 23, 2002 IEEE SCV Section New Officer Training 10 Contents Guideline Title of your chapter/society Objective of your chapter/society Officer roster Current and past events Meeting location and directions Related links History of your chapter/society Speakers slides (limited to last 12 months) Statistics counter Courtesy Webmasters contact information Page modified date

Feb. 23, 2002 IEEE SCV Section New Officer Training 11 Banner and Logo Links Title Current Event SCV Web Page Template

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Feb. 23, 2002 IEEE SCV Section New Officer Training 13 Bottom of a Page Dont forget to show who is hosting the site And who is responsible for the site

Feb. 23, 2002 IEEE SCV Section New Officer Training 14 Page Layout Generated by IEEE Template

Feb. 23, 2002 IEEE SCV Section New Officer Training 15 Publishing Your Page on the Web FTP ewh.ieee.org FTP Tools –Win98/2000: Run command and ftp –SmartFTP: (freeware) –FlashFXP: (shareware) –AceFTP: (shareware) –CuteFTP:

Feb. 23, 2002 IEEE SCV Section New Officer Training 16 Design Tips If you are not sure, dont use html extensions and Java scripts that are browser specific. You want to cover most of your audiences. Use counter for site statistics Keep the page simple and be focus Use table format to layout the page Save a backup copy of your site Use search keywords in header section for locating your web site

Feb. 23, 2002 IEEE SCV Section New Officer Training 17 Keywords Example

Feb. 23, 2002 IEEE SCV Section New Officer Training 18 Banner and Logo

Feb. 23, 2002 IEEE SCV Section New Officer Training 19 Useful Tools Use IEEE Web page templates IEEE Web Developer Guide – Web Tools – Tools: NCSA beginners guide to HTML – WWW/HTMLPrimerP1.htmlhttp://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/ WWW/HTMLPrimerP1.html

Feb. 23, 2002 IEEE SCV Section New Officer Training 20 HTML Books HTML 4 for the world wide web, visual quickstart guide by Elizabeth Castro $19.99 HTML & XHTML: the definitive guide by Chuck Musciano, $34.95 Sams teach yourself HTML and XHTML in 24-hour by Michael Morrison and Dick Oliver, $24.99 HTML 4.01 Programmers Reference by Chris Ullman et al., $34.99

Feb. 23, 2002 IEEE SCV Section New Officer Training 21 HTML Editors High end –Dreamweaver (Macromedia, $300+) –Adobe GoLive (Adobe, $300+) Middle-to-low end –Microsoft FrontPage (Microsoft, $120) –Netscape Composer (Netscape Comm. $0) –FileMaker Home Page (FileMaker, $100) Text Based –BBEdit (M) (Bare Bones Software, $120) –Allaire HomeSite (W) (Allaire, $100)

Feb. 23, 2002 IEEE SCV Section New Officer Training 22 SCV Section Website Policy A webmaster is required for each web site and is responsible for the web contents. (compliant to IEEE EWH policy) Post only last 12 month slides (trial period) SCV Section is not responsible for your loss of data when disk is full

Feb. 23, 2002 IEEE SCV Section New Officer Training 23 Q & A