There are two realms of web publishing at Carleton, institutional and more informal. If you're interested in web publishing on behalf of a department or office on campus, please contact your computing support provider.

If you're interested in web publishing for yourself, an academic course, or a student organization, read on.

In order to create web pages that can be published, you'll need to know how to assemble HTML files and images to present your information. There are a number of tools available to create HTML files, including Dreamweaver, available in the public labs. For advice on tools and learning to create web pages, contact your computing support provider.

Once you have web pages to publish, getting them online is easy.

Personal Pages

To publish personal pages, copy the files into the folder called "WebPub" found in your HOME folder (how to find your HOME folder).

Your pages are now online at http://www.people.carleton.edu/~username/filename where username is your username, and filename is the name of the HTML file.

If the filename of your main page is index.html or index.htm, you can refer to it with just http://www.people.carleton.edu/~username

If you don't like that tilde (the ~) you can advertise your page with your full name, as in http://www.people.carleton.edu/thorstein.veblen -- this will work as long as you don't share a name with someone else on campus.

Course Pages

To publish course pages, you'll need to be an instructor for the course. Copy the files into the folder called "WebPub" found in your Course folder on the COURSES volume (how to find your Course folder).

Your pages are now online at http://acad.carleton.edu/courses/course/filename where course is code for your course (e.g. engl101-00-f03), and filename is the name of the HTML file.

If the filename of your main page is index.html or index.htm, you can refer to it with just http://acad.carleton.edu/courses/course/

Webpub folders do not display a listing their contents by default. If you would like to provide such a list without having to create it in HTML, make a directory named 'list' directly inside your webpub folder. Any file you place in the list directory will be plainly visible to site visitors at http://acad.carleton.edu/courses/course/list .

Department Pages

Similarly, you can do the same thing with your department WebPub folder in Collab. Copy the files into the folder called "WebPub" found in your Department folder on the COLLAB volume.  Your files will now be online at the following address:  http://www.carleton.edu/departments/DEPT/filename where DEPT is the department shortname.

Student Organization Pages

To publish organization pages, you'll need to be granted access by a group officer, which they can do by logging in at http://orgs.carleton.edu/. Once you have access, copy the files into the folder called "WebPub" found in your organization folder on COLLAB (how to find your Stu_Org folders).

Your pages are now online at http://orgs.carleton.edu/orgname/filename where orgname is the name of your organization's folder, and filename is the name of the HTML file.

If the filename of your main page is index.html or index.htm, you can refer to it with just http://orgs.carleton.edu/orgname/

Restricting Access to Pages

You may need to restrict access to all or part of your web site so that only certain people can see it. This is particularly important for courses, if copyrighted material is being posted.

We've set up some special folders to make common access restrictions easy to do. All you have to do to limit access it to put your pages in the appropriately-named folder.

For instance, to restrict access to students, put your pages in a folder called student_only. Anyone visiting the page will be asked to log in, and only people identified as students in the campus directory will be allowed to see the page.

Other folders, such as carleton_only and campus_only, allow access based on whether a person is using a computer on campus.

All students, faculty, and staff have accounts that enable them to log in. In 2003, all alumni were also given accounts. We are in the process of granting some access to prospective Carleton students as well, so you should consider them when choosing a type of restriction.

The chart below lists all of the special folders, and how each restricts access.