What do you want on your web page

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What do you want on your web page?

• Nina McHale
• December 2007

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What is a personal/professional web page?

• Highlights and advertises your professional
  accomplishments to the world
• Gives you a Google-able web presence
• Provides a space online to showcase documents,
  presentations, etc. that detail your professional
  life
• Develops your web skills
• Fun to create and maintain!

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Todays agenda

• Why do this reasons for creating a
  personal/professional web presence
• How to do this what youll need ready in
  January/February to create your page at our next
  workshop
• Fun with Post-its!

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What to put on your home page

• Basic information name, title, affiliation,
  contact info
• Your job description/duties
• Links to your presentations/publications
• A copy of your vita (a link to a Word document is
  fine)
• A picture-give a human touch!
• A summary of current professional interests
• A couple of hobbies, personal details, and/or
  photos

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What NOT to put on your web page

• Anything you wouldnt want your mom to read/see
• Anything you wouldnt want your worst enemy to
  read/see
• Too much personal information
• Too much, period quota20 MB
• Anything that violates UCDHSC-DDC web policies
• Any material, including images, that is not
  clearly in the public domain (unless youve
  received permission from the creator)
• Anything illegal
• Any means of personal commercial gain

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Where to put your web page

• Every UC Denver employee has personal web space
  available on the Carbon server
• Cant we put them up with the Librarys web
  page?
• No personal files should be separate since
  theyre maintained by you alone
• Hasnt/isnt Carbon gone/going away?
• Carbon IS eventually being retired
• However, this personal space will be maintained
  elsewhere
• Back up your files locally

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But I dont know HTML!

• Nina will create some templates that use
  XHTMLCSS
• You wont have to know XHTMLCSS to use them!
• Okay, so what the heck is XHTMLCSS?
• eXtensible HyperText Markup Language
• Cascading Style Sheets

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A Web Server is Like a Filing Cabinet
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Once its up

• Add the URL to your business card next time you
  reorder your URL will follow this pattern
• http//carbon.cudenver.edu/nmchale
• Have Nina add a link from the Library phone
  directory page
• Put a note in Outlook to remind yourself every
  month to check and make sure its up to date.
• Check for broken links
• Check for outdated information
• Add some new content

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What you need before the January workshops

• Web editing software installed on your
  workstation
• A connection to your personal space on the Carbon
  web server
• An appropriate digital photo, if desired
• If you need one or more of these things
• Ask Nina install web authoring software
• Contact the ITS Help Desk (303-315-HELP) to reset
  your Carbon password
• Contact Jeffrey or Farhad to have a photo taken

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Getting design ideas Fun with Post-its

• Using about a dozen Post-its, write down terms
  and concepts that describe you, your job, and the
  kinds of things you want to include on your web
  page
• Arrange the terms in logical groups
• Sketch a rough layout (horizontally) on a piece
  of 8.5x11 paper whats a logical layout for the
  information about you?