Engin 103
Instructions for the Team Webmaster
Please read and follow these
instructions carefully. This is all you need to create and maintain the team
web site. These instructions refer to MS Word 2000 or later to create html
files, no html knowledge is needed.
1.- Each team should designate a Webmaster for each project.
The Webmaster will create, store and maintain all html files related to the
team’s webpage and will upload updated files to the web server using ftp://www.students.umb.edu (do not
click on this link, instead copy and paste this into the browser URL address
box). It is VERY IMPORTANT that the Webmaster keeps a copy of ALL related
html files and make them available to the Webmaster for the next project.
To request a username and password, each Webmaster should email the TA with
subject “requesting password” and including in
the message the following statement: “I, your full name, have read the University Web Policies and
Standards at http://www.umb.edu/it/policy/
and will follow them while accessing and/or uploading files to this server. I
understand my access to this server is limited to the Fall 2008 semester and
that the username and password are non-transferable and non-compliance with
these rules will be subject to disciplinary actions. “
2.-First thing: the Webmaster needs to to create and upload an index.html file that will serve as the team’s homepage. If you are not the Webmaster for the first project, this file may exist already, in which case the team’s homepage would show up at http://www.students.umb.edu/e103tX where X is your team number. In this case jump to step 3 below.
2.1.- Open a New-file in Word. Write something about your team: e.g. team#, member names, etc., then create links to projects, e.g. 0, 1, 2, or 3 with a Webmaster name for each (regarding how to create a link, see 3.4 below)
2.2.- Click on File (or MS
Office icon its 2007 version) –Save As; in the Save-in dialogue box click
and find your USB flash drive, or a temporary folder in C:; in the
Save-as-type dialogue box, click and find Webpage, then in the File-name
box write index.html (include the ‘.html’ extension!); then click
Save
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2.3.- Open a browser window and enter this URL ftp://www.students.umb.edu (do not click on this link, instead type or copy and paste it into your browser URL address box, note that the usual http is replaced by ftp), then Login with the user name and password provided (to get to the login window, you may need to right-click on the mouse, then select “Login as”). Using My Computer, in a separate window, open the local folder (in flash drive or hard drive) containing the index.html file you have just created. To upload this file onto the server, simply drag and drop it into the ftp window
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Depending on the version of Windows installed in the machine you are using, if after typing ftp://www.students.umb.edu into a browser window you may get a blank window, in that case click on “Start”, then select “Run” to get the window below, you need to type ftp://www.students.umb.edu into the “Open” box, and hit OK.
If you are using Windows Vista, after typing ftp://www.students.umb.edu into a browser window you will get a blank page, within this blank page click on the “Page” tab on the upper right side of the browser window, then select “Open FTP Site in Windows Explorer”. When the following error message shows up, click OK.
When you see a blank window as shown below, right click on the mouse and select “Login as”
When you see the window below, enter the username and password
Now you are logged into the server, if you see a blank window, you need to upload a team homepage created using Word and named “index.html”. If the homepage you created contains a picture there is a folder named “index_files” you will need to upload here as well.
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2.4.- To check whether you have gone on-line with this index.html file, go back to the Engin103 web page http://www.faculty.umb.edu/tomas_materdey/103s09 , click on teams homepage, click on Team X, where X is your team number, make sure you see what you have just uploaded. If a picture you added to the web page did not show, see section 4 below.
3.- To create and upload a Project file and to update your index.html file with a link to the Project file:
3.1.-Create a new file in Word with information regarding your Project Y (Y could be 0, 1, 2, 3). Save it as a webpage with the name: projectY.html (include this exact extension!).
3.2.-Access the Engin 103 web server at ftp://www.students.umb.edu (copy and paste this into the browser address box, clicking on it may not work!). Log in with the username and password provided. Check if a files folder was created, if not, click on File in the upper left corner of the browser window, then select New, type in files.
3.3.-Double click on the files folder. Using My Computer, in a separate window open the folder containing the projectY.html file you have just created. To upload this file onto the server, simply drag and drop it into the ftp window (where the files folder is open). If a picture you added is not shown, see section 4.
3.4.- To
update your index.html file with a
link to the projectY.html, open the
first file, at the selected location, click on Insert/Hyperlink. In the File/Address
box type the URL of your Project Y page uploaded, which is http://www.students.umb.edu/e103tX/files/projectY.html
. In the Text to Display box type
“Project Y”. Then click on O.K.,
save your updated index.html file,
and upload it to the server following 2.3 as before.
4.- If your filename.html file (where filename can be index or projectY) contains an image, the image will be automatically stored in your disk in a folder called filename_files as you save your file as a webpage into your disk. For the image to appear online you will need to upload this folder to the Engin 103 server. To upload the filename_files folder, drag and drop it into the ftp window with the folder containing the filename.html file open., i.e. you need to upload the image folder called filename_files into the ftp folder that also contains the associated filename.html you uploaded.
5.- Please ask questions if something is not clear.
Below is a sample
team webpage. The tables of Leaders and Attendances as shown are required.
The attendances table
will be maintained by the current team leader. It is up to the team to decide
and design the other elements of the web page.
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This is ENGIN 103 – INTRO TO ENGINEERING (Fall 2008) & We are
Members: Amar Bose, John Bardeen, Martin Cooper, Katherine
Stinson, Susan
Story Leaders (required)
Attendances (required)
(Team leaders: please update attendance for your team during class: select cell, then choose ‘bright green’ for shading if present, ‘sea green’ if absence was pre-notified to you and the TA, leave color as ‘indigo’ for absence. In the example above: Cooper was absent in class meeting #2 and Bardeen pre-notified his absence in class meeting #3. Use the example below to add links to the html versions of your presentation files for the different projects)
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