Overview and Demo of PWeb Presented by: David Schamus – CSIT Dept.

Agenda A few website statistics The goal PWeb design objectives What it’s not Demonstration How to get started and where to get help

Statistics – Some from the bottom Department:Number of Faculty Method for AnonymityYesNoTotalPctWith % % % % % Hawaii Vacation, Cool – Your Identity is safe Pmt rec’d. Thank you! – Your Identity is safe I love the house – Your Identity is safe Nice jet!. I need flying lessons too – Pay Up Account overdue. Time to face public ridicule. Or, why not get online? – It’s easy with PWeb

The goal NO: Every faculty member has to have a website YES: Every student, in every class, has online access to helpful information about their courses and instructors

Design Objectives Provide web sites for faculty Make it than HTML FrontPage Expressions Web SharePoint Dreamweaver Provide the Pierce College Make course files Editable from web browzers

What it’s not A free-form, design-it-yourself tool No data-driven automation It’s NOT for everyone – Experienced FrontPage or Dreamweaver users – Professional web designers – People who think of Spiderman when you say “The Web” (but, perhaps we can fix that )

A few PWeb sites sses/PWeb%20for%20Faculty/Samples.pdf sses/PWeb%20for%20Faculty/Samples.pdf Look at the diversity Look at the similarities

Demo: Creating and editing PWeb sites (Finally, no more “Death by PowerPoint”) Myhomepage Courses/Files List – Creating folders – Uploading files Navigation page

Getting Started – Getting Help If you do not have a faculty website – Go to the “Faculty and Staff” link for the Pierce College web site and look for PWeb link on right Online Tutorials for PWeb – (Content by David Schamus or Joe Perret – Thanks Joe!) PS: those are zeros in the file name. Phone Directory Updates – Send to Help Available at the FSRC (Old Library Bldg)