1. Informs Seminar Texas A&M Spring 2008 Brandon Pope Anurag Verma Some Material in this Presentation was created by Heungjo An (Thank you) Create Your Website in 4 Easy Steps 9

2. Texas A&M, Industrial & Systems Engineering 1 Original Contents of this presentation Part I. Trend of Web Web 2.0 Part II. Make a personnel web site in person (people.tamu.edu) Build a personnel web site by using services (Google Blog) Part III. 1.Basic HTML

3. Texas A&M, Industrial & Systems Engineering 2 Create Your Website in 4 Easy Steps Steps 1. Activate your webspace on people.tamu.edu 2. Install file transfer software 3. Make a web site Plan overall web site architecture Prepare contents Make web pages 4. Upload files

4. Texas A&M, Industrial & Systems Engineering 3 Make a personnel web site : Activate your webspace Go to http://people.tamu.edu/http://people.tamu.edu/ Activate a web page on this server : Go to https://oalinfo.tamu.edu/account/ https://oalinfo.tamu.edu/account/ Your website address will be http://people.tamu.edu/~yournetid

5. Texas A&M, Industrial & Systems Engineering 4 Make a personnel web site : Download file transfer program Outside of OALs, SFTP must be used to upload files for your webpage. –Instructions for uploading from an OAL can be found on people.tamu.edu SFTP := {Simple, Secure, Serial} File Transfer Protocol –I don’t know which, but it is not important for us. You must download a program which uses this protocol to upload files. –people.tamu.edu recommends Filezilla (I use this one as well) –http://filezilla-project.orghttp://filezilla-project.org

6. Texas A&M, Industrial & Systems Engineering 5 Make a personnel web site : Basic Ideas Once you have successfully downloaded your file transfer program, you should turn your attention to designing your webpage. –To do this lets give some basic idea of what is going on. Earlier we activated your web space, this basically grants you access to your folder “…/yournetID/public_html/” –when you first claim your space, this folder will be virtually empty –once your have created files which generate your webpage, you will use the file transfer program to upload them to this folder –“…/yournetID/public_html/index.htm(l)” is the main page of your website In addition to the index.html file, you can place additional files such as {pictures, other pages, documents, etc.}

7. Texas A&M, Industrial & Systems Engineering 6 Make a personnel web site : Start Simple Using a text editor. (Notepad, Visual Studio,...) –Make a simple index.html as follows. –You can preview it before uploading it. Test Welcome to my web site.

8. Texas A&M, Industrial & Systems Engineering 7 Make a personnel web site : Brainstorming Design –Layout Contents –Main Page –Curriculum Vitae –Materials that are related with your interest areas. (papers, articles, presentations, related links and so on,) –Images –Find service providers who provide a web application that you want. {Calendar, Clock, etc. ?} Main Page Left Page Top Page

9. Texas A&M, Industrial & Systems Engineering 8 Make a personnel web site : Finding Sample Pages Find a website you like. –Lets try people.tamu.edu/~akshriv/ Right click on the page and select “View Source” –The source will most likely appear very complicated. Now you can use the basic form of the html, with your personal information. –Show Example Remember if you do this to acknowledge the creator of the template, much like referencing other academic works.

10. Texas A&M, Industrial & Systems Engineering 9 Make a personnel web site : A Template You Can Use http://people.tamu.edu/~anuragverma/i/webpage.zip –Download –Edit –Upload index and resume

11. Texas A&M, Industrial & Systems Engineering 10 Make a personnel web site : Expanding Your Site and Uploading Files Study the html code and your will be able to create multiple pages for your website quite easily. –http://people.tamu.edu/~brandon_pope/http://people.tamu.edu/~brandon_pope/ This is still a beginner’s site! Via your file transfer program, you can connect to people.tamu.edu and upload the files you have created for your webpage –Instructions for connecting can be found at people.tamu.edu Show how to upload.

12. Texas A&M, Industrial & Systems Engineering 11 Conclusions This has been a very simple introduction with the purpose in mind of you being able to achieve some small (yet significant) results. My sincere hope is that you will become much more proficient than I in webpage design. Thank you