Working With Your Personal Web Space

  

All registered students, faculty and staff member have personal web space.  Your web space address is:  www.svsu.edu/~username

  

All personal web site accounts are located in folder called M:\public_html (located in their personal M: drive space).  Accessing your web pages remains the same (svsu.edu/~username); the instructions for publishing developed pages changes (see below for various methods).

Note: If you need assistance/training:  Students may visit the Student Technology Center, Faculty/Staff may visit the ITD Lab.

Secure FTP Options (for Web Publishing and M: access)
  

CoreFTP (remote site/file management software for Windows computers)

    * CoreFTP is an excellent SFTP client, providing secure encrypted connections and easy file management. Whether publishing web pages or managing files on your M:, this client provides users the ability to transfer multiple files (drag and drop) and features rename/copy/delete functions. Information on how to download and configure, can be found here. 

Fugu

    * Fugu is a graphical frontend for the text-based Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) client that ships with Mac OS X. Fugu provides a friendly, intuitive interface, featuring drag-and-drop file transfers, remote file editing and remote file preview. Download it here.

Dreamweaver Studio 8 and MX 2004

    * Dreamweaver is configurable to support secure ftp. Follow the instructions posted here.

FrontPage 2003

    * FrontPage is configurable to support WebDav.  You will need have the latest Office Updates installed for this to work properly.  Follow the instructions posted here.

Frontpage 2000 & Dreamweaver MX (and older versions)

    * Users will need to make use of a separate utility, like CoreFTP (a secure ftp client). You will create your pages and save them to your local hard drive, and then use CoreFTP to select the files and folders to publish them to your web space.

Alternate Web Publishing packages

    * Each package has its own instructions and options for web publishing. ITS cannot determine all possible configurations for all the various packages. Ultimately, you want to ensure that your package can support secure ftp. If it cannot, or if you are not able to figure it out - we still recommend the use of CoreFTP (as mentioned above).

NetDrive

    * Another option is to utilize NetDrive (a SFTP client that allows you to map a drive letter on your home computer - making it look like you're on campus publishing to your M:\ drive.. Allows drag and drop and multiple file transfers to your M: (secured).  NetDrive is not compatible with Vista. Download it here.

What programs can I use to update my web site?

Web Services recommends that you use Dreamweaver (instructions), either in the labs or on your personal computer. Dreamweaver features WYSIWYG, Word-like editing of your web pages as well as built in FTP. However, this is not free software. There are a number of applications out there that are free and can function fairly similar, however if you're willing to play around with actual HTML, a good program to work with is HTML-Kit (instructions). This program, while you are typing in actual code to create the layout of your pages, gives you built in previews, numerous toolbars, and FTP.

If you prefer to hand-code everything or create pages in other programs without FTP access (such as Notepad, Wordpad, or Word), you can also upload pages via FTP using CoreFTP (instructions).

 

Can I use FrontPage?

FrontPage was actually discontinued in late 2006. However, versions of FrontPage up to 2003 can be used with some special settings (instructions).

 

What are some good resources that may help me with my web site?

HTML

• http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/getting_started/

CSS

• http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/css/
• http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

We will try to add more as we come across them. If you know of any site that is as helpful as these sites or more, please suggest it by sending the link to webmaster(at)svsu.edu.

 

What policies are associated with managing my web space?

• SVSU Acceptable Use Policy
  • Web Page Policies
• Web Development Standards
• Student Technology Access Policy
• Employee Technology Access Policy

IMPORTANT: Students, faculty, and staff must read SVSU’s Acceptable Use Policy and the Web Development Standards. You must also understand the Copyright Considerations for your web pages.

The following is an excerpt from the SVSU Web Page Policies:

“All non-University web pages must carry the following disclaimer in a font equivalent to the majority of the text on the web page:

SVSU accepts no responsibility for the content of this page.
Comments on this page should be directed to the page author.

The University reserves the right to permanently close the Network User ID, e-mail account and access to the Network for anyone who uses the University electronic resources or the Internet to promote illegal activity; who distributes copyrighted material, licensed software or pornographic material; or who promotes material that negatively affects the University.”

Note: It is recommended to have a link to your disclaimer from every page you design.

 

Can you explain all of these acronyms to me?

(X)HTML	(Extensible) HyperText Markup Language The text that tells browsers the content of your web page.
CSS	Cascading Style Sheets Markup that tells the browser the format of your text, such as color, size, placement, alignment, and tons more.
FTP	File Transfer Protocol The Internet's way of moving files back and forth
WYSIWYG	"What You See Is What You Get" A main feature of the major web page editing tools. This allows you to edit in a mode where you see what your page will look like versus the code used to generate it.