Webpage Resources

About

This is a resource page that provides a template for webpages for students (and faculty) at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oklahoma. Please contact Thomas Madsen or Jeff Breeding for comments and suggestions for improvements.

Locating Z:\WWW

To create a department webpage, you must first locate the correct directory to store your files. This directory is Z:\WWW. You can locate the directory by following these steps:

• Go to the Start Menu
• Click on My Computer
• Double-click on " jgraduatestudent on 'ZEUS (zeus)' (Z:) "
• Double-click on the WWW folder
• You are there!

Getting and Setting Up the Template

Now that you know where the Z:\WWW directory is, you can start creating your webpage. Here are the steps to downloading and editing a basic template for your page:

• Right-click and download this page, this background, and this profile picture to your Z:\WWW directory, saving them as index.html, wall.gif, and picture.gif, respectively.
• Now you want to edit the page so that it is for you and not for John Graduatestudent.
• If you know HTML, locate the index.html file in your Z:\WWW directory and edit with Notepad.
• If you don't know HTML, locate the index.html file in your Z:\WWW directory, right-click on it, and edit with Dreamweaver.
• Replace John Graduatestudent's information and picture with your's: your e-mail address, office number, and office phone number.
• Now you can access your page at http://math.ou.edu/~jgradstudent/index.html or at http://math.ou.edu/~jgradstudent/. This, of course, is if your name is John Gradstudent. If your name is, for example, Zubin Mehta, the address will be http://math.ou.edu/~zmehta

What Next?

This page is only a standard template. You should play around with Dreamweaver to make your homepage look the way you want it to look. You might want to list your office hours and links relevant to courses you are teaching on your webpage. Look at the other pages that people in the department have to see what kinds of things they have on their sites.

Here are some other backgrounds you could use: wall1.gif, wall2.gif, wall3.gif (If you want to use one of these backgrounds, make sure to save it as wall.gif in your Z:\WWW directory. Otherwise it won't load.)

Once you are satisfied with the way your page looks, e-mail Dr. Schmidt and ask him to link your webpage on the Math/People page.

(The next step - keeping the code cool)

Here we wish to have further suggestions on how to improve your web site. The MGSA web site has been created in accordance with the standard: XHTML 1.0 Strict and we strive to keep it as such.

• A free HTML editor for Windows (not recommende for Vista): Alleycode
• Learn HTML

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