Getting a website
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A Web page is a document you see in a browser window. It corresponds minimally to one disk file with the extension ".html" or ".htm". Most web pages consist of more than one disk file: for instance, each graphic element is always placed in its own file.
A Website is a collection of web pages related to each other by links. If you want a website to be visible to other people, it should reside on a "web server" -- a computer that is permanently connected to the Web, and that can handle large amounts of traffic. LSIT makes its server available to all L&S faculty and staff. (If you have an Internet Service Provider at home, they may also make web space available to you free as part of your account.) This is explained in more detail here.
(Thanks to Ken Hugoniot for the information in this section.)
If you have a student e-mail account, you already have a website under UWeb. This account has some limitations: it only allows 10 MB storage, and it doesn't allow CGI scripts (you'd use these to count hits or collect information from an online form, for instance). To access your account information:
- Go to the main UMail page
- Click on MyAccount
- Log in using your regular UMail username and password.
You will see an information page with your mail and web account information, including the root URL of your website: for instance, "http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~ken" (if you are Ken).
Go to the LSWeb account request page. At the bottom there is a button, "Request Account". Click it. You will be taken through a series of pages where you have to read some information and specify what kind of account you want. You probably want one of the following:
- "I am a faculty in a department/program in the UCSB College of
Letters & Science, and I need an account to publish personal/research/instructional
information."
- Probably the default choice.
- Probably the default choice.
- "I am a faculty in a department/program in the UCSB College of
Letters & Science, and I need an account so that my TA/RA can publish
instructional information (i.e., a course web page) under my responsibility."
- Course sites will expire and their contents will be deleted after
the end of the quarter the course is held, so use this with caution.
- Course sites will expire and their contents will be deleted after
the end of the quarter the course is held, so use this with caution.
- "I am a faculty in a department/program in the UCSB College of
Letters & Science, and I need a shared account for a research project.
Graduate/undergraduate students may be given access to this account
under my responsibility."
- This is probably what you'd want for a conference or workshop. I think the difference between this and a "faculty account" has to do with who you're "allowed" to share access privileges with.
Eventually you'll get to a form where you provide information and submit the request. Within a day or so you'll get a response by e-mail, something like the following:
We have opened an account for Susanna Cumming
on the http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu web server.
You can access your account using an ftp client
to connect to the server:
www.linguistics.ucsb.edu
using the following Login and Password:
Login: cumming
Password: xxxxxxx
If you need ftp help, please check our Web Help pages at:
http://www.lsit.ucsb.edu/helpdesk/resources/web_help
Your URL will be:
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/cummingPlease make sure you read the LSWEB Acceptable Use Agreement at:
http://www.lsit.ucsb.edu/lsweb/ause.shtml
If you need help:
- For general information on your new account check:
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/myaccount
Make sure you record the FTP server, the URL, your login and password; when you are ready to upload something to your account, you'll need these.
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