Personal Webpage Information
Building A Webpage - Posting a Webpage
The department has several resources to help you build your own webpage. Most computers in the department (including the ones in the PAL lab) have Netscape Composer installed on them. This program can be found in the start button with the other Netscape functions. This program works much like a word processor and contains extensive help and instructions in the help menu. Another resource for more information about building WebPages with Composer is available on the Netscape website in their Communicator Help Section.
When building your webpage you may want to put graphics or other pictures on the page. The PAL has a scanner that is for department use. Questions about operating the scanner should be directed to the Department webmaster (Derby 2049H). You can also use free images you can find online. One good site for these images is ArtToday (www.arttoday.com). This site offers free memberships in addition to paid memberships. Please remember that web images are protected by copyright laws. DO NOT simply download images from other personal or corporate WebPages. Thus, the free web images sites are the only legal way to obtain pre-made graphics. Also be careful of sites that advertise "royalty-free" graphics. All this means is that you don't have to pay the original producer for use on your webpage (for example, you'd have to pay royalties to the original photographer for photos taken in the 50 years or so). You may still have to pay to download it.
You may also want to post your Vita or other papers. The easiest and most effective way to do this is to create PDF (Acrobat) files to be posted to the web. Several of the PAL computers have Acrobat Distiller installed. Many different types of files may be converted to PDF. For assistance, please see the webmaster.
Once you built your webpage, you'll need to post it to the web and maintain it. In order to do this, you will need to learn how to use the department's FTP (File Transfer Protocol) services.
Please remember that your WebPages, while personal, are housed on department and university servers. All applicable guidelines concerning appropriate content are, thus, in force.