Internet Research Practice and Experience

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Internet Research Practice and Experience

• Ravi Iyer

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Objectives

• Basic overview of technology
• Practical Tips
• Examples of Internet Research
• Lessons from those Experiences
• Stress reducing vs. stress inducing
• Got a project? Got ideas?

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Basic Internet Technology

• Where do I put my studies? (domain names
  hosting)
• How do I create a study? (html, forms, php)
• How do I get subjects? (ads, myspace, craigslist)
• How do I store and retrieve data? (mysql, email)

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A Home and an Address

• Web Server Space
• Its just space on a computer thats always
  connected to the internet.
• 8-30/month.
• Includes a control panel (cpanel, plesk)
• Make sure it has the technology you want
• Or use the psychwiki server for free!

• A Domain Name/URL
• Owning a domain name is cheap (6-20)/year.
• Buying a name once youre famous is expensive
  (1000s) so buy your name now!
• Registrars (GoDaddy) and nameservers.
• Get your ideas out there!

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From Your Control Panel

• View Site Statistics (ie. Which search engines,
  what links give you trafficare people coming and
  leaving?)
• Create and erase databases
• Administer Email
• Password Protection

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Creating a Study

• A web page is just a text file.
• FTP software allows you to put the text file on
  your web server.
• HTML gives the text file formatting.
• Forms are HTML items that allow data input by the
  user.
• Javascript and PHP allow dynamic functionality.
• SQL allows you to write data to a machine
  readable format (SPSS, excel)

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