Info. 
 |
|
|
Howto: Use the USQ StudentWeb serverThis page contains these sections: Table of contents
ScreencastsHints and tips for using the USQ Student Web pagesPut hints here to assist in the use of the USQ Student Web pages.
 coreftp which is free or coffeecup which is also free(referred to in Kaye Cleary's attached demonstration file below). Then again if all else fails you could take the simple but slow approach of cut and paste described towards the end of this page.
Folder structure and path and file names in html
Creating multiple sites on the student web serverThe USQstudentweb site is a very basic web publishing site and you can use anyone web publishign service if you want. We will build up a list at: http://knowledgegarden.usq.edu.au//tiki-index.php?page_id=205 Yes there is one folder for each student but you can have multiple folders within this Thus you could have one folder for course and then a folder in each course for each assignment e.g. in the following example there are 4 seperate sites (3 for assignments for fet5622 and one for 8611. SN will be your student number) http://studentweb.usq.edu.au/home/SN/fet5622/assig1/ http://studentweb.usq.edu.au/home/SN/fet5622/assig2/ http://studentweb.usq.edu.au/home/SN/fet5622/assig3/ http://studentweb.usq.edu.au/home/SN/fet8611/assig1/ Each of these folders will have an index.htm file at the top level and if you want to give the URL for assignment 2 in fet5622 it will be http://studentweb.usq.edu.au/home/SN/fet5622/assig2/index.htm (you can leave out the index.htm) becuase this is the default file that will be served.You can create mutiple sites on the student web server by setting up a folder for each them e.g. a folder for FET5621 and another for FET5622 and perhaps another for MYSITE
This means that the URLs for my FET5621 and FET5622 sites would be
You would probably also want to create separate folders within each for each assignment Directory browsing has been turned on on the studentweb.usq.edu.au server so users are able to browse through your directory structure. Some people would regard this as a security back door because it allows people to browse and guess possible URLS. e.g. most organised students doing courses would tend to have a folders using course codes and then assignment folders in these. To stop this put a index.htm or index.html file at in any folder that you think people might guess. You can browse a folder stucture for my site on the studentweb server by starting at http://studentweb.usq.edu.au/home/evansp For example the name of the FTP server would be: ftp://studentweb.usq.edu.au/ and there would be the following folder structure /FET5621/ASSIG1/ /FET5621/ASSIG2/ /FET5621/ASSIG3/ /FET5622/ASSIG1/ /FET5622/ASSIG2/ /MYSITE/ etc Each of the folders would need to have an index.htm or an index.html file in it if you want to send people to that directory e.g. http://studentweb.usq.edu.au/home/**MYSUDENTNUMBER**/FET5621/ASSIG1/ If you want people to be able to nagivate from one to the other you would probably put an index.htm at the top level with links to each of the index files in the subfolders. If you are concerned with people guessing your foldernames you can obfuscate them a little by making them /FET-5621/A1/ /FET-5621/ASSI2/ /FET-5621/ASSIGNMENET3/ /FET5-621/A1/ /FET5-621/AS-2/ /MYSITE/ Once your folder structure is set up you can either use the links in your FTP program or just copy and paste from your local directory to the studentweb FTP site (if you use Internet Explorer). Steps for this are (IE only):-
Where to put images and audioThe basic rule is that as much as possible you should organise your folders to aid maintenance of the site by keeping related things in the same branch of the hierarchy. This will be slightly more efficient for the web server as well as it will not have to traverse quite so far to get the imagesYou should also be using relative rather than absolute paths e.g.
If it is likely that you will want to use the redCentre site in another location the following structure would allow you to simply drag the folder to another site and all would work correctly. It also means that you could have images with the same name in both the redCentre and the amin project without danger of them getting mixed up. This is often the case with navigational elements e.g. right.jpg where you might want to have a different theme for different parts of your site.
If you want to use the same element across your site you would most likely have a "commonimages" folder under the "assig2" folder. Deciding at what level to break the folder structure into separate sites in your web editor (Dreamweaver or FrontPage or whatever) is a different issue. Generally you should do this at the organisation level and in the case of assignments you would probably do it at the level of each assignment. Thus you can organise your folders and sites in whatever way is most logical for you and your team. But marking the decision early and documenting it through clear folder names and perhaps text files will make your work much easier e.g. "/fet5622/assig2/commonimages/" clearly shows that it contains images which are used in assig2 or fet5622 Movie of publishing to studentweb using Dreamweaver
In the following movie the defined a site called PeterEvansStite which I use only to create folders on the student web server
Movie length= 8:40secs File size 2234KB stream required 4KB sec whcih shoudld just about work on a 56kmodem This Flash movie was created using Wink (free) which you can see described on Software for capturing screen movies. The FlashMovie is hidden so it does not start playing as soon as the page is displayed. The TikiWiki markdown to do this is: *- {FLASH(movie=http://studentweb.usq.edu.au/home/evansp/wink/dw_publish/dwpublish.swf, width=>525, height=>353, quality=>low, play=>0, start => 0)}{FLASH} What happens to my studentweb files when I finish my USQ programme?I asked USQ assist and got this reply (5 March 2007): "Your account will be deleted shortly after you complete your program. The grace period is usally around a month, but to be sure I would make sure you have all files you need backed up before you finish." Penny ReferencesFET5621 (2006) Module 1.6 Folder Structure In FET5621 Introdcution to Web Publishing. USQ Course materials.
|
...Search kG with GoogleLoginOnline users
3
online users
Search Wiki PageName |
||||||||||||
Wiki
Forums
|
|
,
,
and