Web Services
Your Personal Web site
The College of Humanities has provided all Faculty, Staff and Graduate Students, within the college, with their own personal Web space. These Web presences were created and organized for the following reasons.
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To make it easier for colleagues and students to find you. Because the personal Web sites are organized under Humanities, anyone can locate the Web site of someone in Humanities by typing the URL http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/lastname#/.
(Read below, about your URL.)
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To give a 'face' to the people that work in the College of Humanities and make the world aware that the College of Humanities is an up-and-coming place to study and work!
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For instructors to use the Internet as a medium to reach their students for class purposes.
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For faculty to use the Internet as a medium to reach colleagues for Research purposes.
The personal Web spaces are organized in a manner to make your life easier:
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Your new Web space actually consists of two locations, one on a Staging Server, one on a Production Server. Each of these are given 250 MB of space - usually much more than needed! However,should you need more space contact Web Design and Programming for options.
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Use the Staging Server to test portions of your site that are “under construction” without having them visible to the entire Internet world and also without having them indexed by search engines such as Google, Yahoo, etc.
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Use your Humanities Network login/password to publish pages (ftp) to your Web site, thus having fewer logins/passwords to remember
If your professional activities, research projects, etc. require you to maintain Web sites that would be better served by a non-personal Web address, it may be possible to move them to their own name.osu.edu address. Please
contact Web Services for more information.
Additional Personal Web site FAQs
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What is (or will be) my new Web address?
Your new address is http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/lastname#/
Your lastname# is the name you use for your OSU email address. Typically it consists of your lastname, a dot (period ".") and a number. Your new Web address will be the same as your email, except that the dot (period) is removed. For example Johnny Jones ID is "jones.5341" so his personal Web address will be http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/jones5341
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When is my new Web address activated?
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Where do I work on my Web files?
Once you have a Humanities Account, you will work on your Web files on the
Staging Server, an area where you develop your ideas, create and test your files. Your
Staging Server is located, on a PC at: P:\lastname#\. On a MAC you will find it as the volume -->> HUMDATA:Web-UserStaging:lastname#. Be sure to read more information about the
Staging Server.
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How do I get my files to the Internet.
Once you have your pages all created looking like you want with images proper loading, containing all necessary information and all links working, then it is time to FTP them to the
Production Server. There are a variey of ways to use FTP, as is given on our page about the
Production Server.
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Where do I go for help?
You are not alone when you go to create your Web site. HIS Web Services is here to help. You may ask Web-related questions by contacting HIS Web Services by email at:
cohWebHelp@osu.edu or phone at: 614-247-7071. We will be happy to answer questions and get you going. You may also come visit us and use our Web Services Studio, located in 150 Hagerty Hall. This Studio allows you to use Dreamweaver on a PC or MAC right where we are available to answer questions. It also provides a 'testing area' to look at and listen to your Web pages in different electronic environments. Hope to see you soon!
