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Faculty Website Information
Introduction
Fordham now provides all full-time faculty with space for personal web sites on http://faculty.fordham.edu. Although we recommend that your main page include professional information including your contact information, a brief bibliography of your published works, and perhaps a statement of your current professional interests, it is your space to use and explore.
If you are a full-time faculty member, you should have received your password in an email. If you did not, please contact the Faculty Technology Center on your campus for information on obtaining it.
Finding Your Site
The address other people will use to access your web site is:
http://faculty.fordham.edu/_yourname_
Where _yourname_ is your Lotus username (the part of your email address before the "@").
Creating Your Site
Using Microsoft Word
At the request of the Faculty Senate, we have provided instructions for creating your basic faculty home page using only Microsoft Word and tools present on a basic Windows PC. The instructions are available as downloadable PDF.
Microsoft Word, however, is not primarily designed for creating and editing web pages, and uploading Word-created pages to the ftp server properly can be difficult. We strongly recommend that you use an HTML editor such as Macromedia/Adobe Dreamweaver or the free Mozilla SeaMonkey. Both are available in the Facutly Technology Centers.
You cannot use Microsoft Word to create your web page on a Macintosh.
Using an HTML Editor or Web Design Tool
Download the Template
ITAC has provided a template for a basic faculty web page that includes the university header and footer, as well as some basic formatting and ideas for content. You can download it from:
To save the template to your computer, go to the page and choose HTML from the Save As dialog in your browser's File menu.
Edit the Template
Simply open the template in the HTML editor of your choice and replace the placeholder information with your own. Be careful to only change things that look the same at the same time. If you erase something in bold and something italic, fom instance, at the same time, you will lose the formatting for both parts.
If you do not have a suitable web design tool, Macromedia/Adobe Dreamveaver and Mozilla SeaMonkey are available in the Faculty Technology Centers, or you can download Mozilla SeaMonkey for free.
Upload Your Site
Use your editor's "Publish" function to upload your website using your faculty.fordham.edu username and password. You should name the file you upload: index.html
Redirecting to Your Current Site
If you already have a faculty page or site elsewhere at Fordham, you can have your faculty.fordham.edu page simply redirect visitors to that page. Just create a new, blank page named index.html in the Web editor of your choice. In the <head> section, insert the following code, replacing _yoursite_ with the url of your current site:
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url=http://_yoursite_">
You may not use Microsoft Word to create this page.
It is also customary to include a brief message letting your visitors know they are being redirected, and providing a link to the new page in case the automatic redirection fails for some reason.
When you are finished editing, upload the redirect page to your faculty.fordham.edu account as index.html. visitors to your faculty.fordham.edu page will be automatically redirected to your current web site.
Checking Your Site
Once you have published your site using one of the methods above, make sure you take a look at it in a web browser, just to make sure everything looks the way you expected. Whenever possible, you should check your site in in several browsers (i.e., both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox) and preferrably on both windows and Macintosh. Website often look very different when viewed with different browsers.
Getting Help
Help is always available at the Faculty Technology Centers in person, or via phone or email.
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