Parent Ed Faculty Web Workshop Working with North’s Provided Web Space

Agenda Locating WWW Folder Mapping Your Site “To Index or Not to Index – That is the Question!” Examples of Three Different Approaches in order of complexity No Index – Simple File List – “no frills” Index in Subfolder – One Link Pointing to Simple File List Index as Splash Page Multiple Links Opening to Deeper Levels of the Site

Locating WWW Folder Can be found locally after you log into an on-campus computer WWW folder is located in your NetID profile on your “I:drive” Appears in list of available drives in Windows Explorer/MyComputer yourusername (//ADMIN) (I:) scroll down to www Can be found globally from any internet-connected computer Type into browser address line:

Mapping Your Site List All Content (leave nothing out!) Start with list or outline of all content to be included Thinking ahead to all possible additions is a good thing Easier to shrink a site than to expand it! Determine Site “Size and Scope” based on content needs How many pages? What kind of pages? How are the pages related?

“To Index or Not to Index: That is the Question” What is an index file? The index file is an html document that serves as the site home page By default, the browser automatically seeks the index file to display first when someone types in a URL or “uniform resource locator” Index must be inside the web folder to work If index is absent, the browser will display a list of the other files in the folder

Not to Index = the Easiest Possible Way Since the browser will display whatever is in the folder in the absence of an index file, we can use www folder as is, with no modifications Drag-and-drop = Voila! Instant web-publishing Everyone’s address is the same with the exception of the username

GOOD EXAMPLE OF USING FACWEB WITH NO INDEX PAGE

To Index = More Unique Presence Can place an “index.htm” or “index.html” file in the www folder at any time Index “blocks” automatic view of contents of WWW folder – Why? Must add visual content and provide links manually Almost the same URL as for no index page: Uses the addition of the coursename, NTR150, FAM180, etc.

EXAMPLE OF AN INDEX PAGE WITH LINK TO WESITE IN SUBFOLDER

EXAMPLE WESITE IN WWW WITH SUBFOLDER NOTE: www folder address = www with subfolder address = NOTE: addition of “%20” into foldername Caused by leaving spaces in the name

Index with “Splash” = The Unique-est Can place an “index.htm” or “index.html” page in the www folder Blocks automatic view of contents of WWW folder Must add visual content and provide links manually Same URL as for no index page:

EXAMPLE OF AN INDEX PAGE (aka “Splash” PAGE or 1 st LEVEL) WITH 3 LINKS

EXAMPLE OF AN INTERNAL PAGE (2 nd LEVEL) WITH MANY LINKS TO DEEPER LEVELS OF THE SITE

EXAMPLE OF DEEPER (3 rd ) LEVEL OF THE SITE CONTAINING CONTENT FOR THE UNIT

BETSY’S INDEX PAGE