Are you a member, President, or Webmaster of a current SHSU Student Organization. If so, this site is just for you. Do you want to set up your Organization's Web page, but don't know how, or Do you just want some pointers on development? Then you have come to the right place.
Why
Should you make a Web Page for your Organization?
How
Hard is it to make a web Page?
What
type of web editing software should I use?
Organization
Web Design Training Manual
Individual
Student Web Page Training Manual
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Why
Should you Make a Web Page for your Organization?
You
can sum up the answer to this question in one word, Recruitment. Every
student organization is driven by this need. Recruitment is what pays
the operational bills, fills up the meeting rooms and increases the organization's
standing on campus. If you are a good organization, odds are that you
have been doing this already in one form or another. Building your web
site, only increases the audience size to which you are giving information.
Beyond Recruitment,
it also increases organization communication. By posting calendars, special
event notices, phone lists, e-mail lists, and Guestbooks, you are giving
your members a way to communicate even when they are not next door.
Not only are you increasing your communication within the organization,
you are increasing the amount outside of it as well. By providing information/details
of organization events online, you are effectively increasing the numbers
of people who see what you do and when you do it. So that Fundraiser that
you have yearly, could increase in size exponentially.
There are many other reasons to build and maintain a web page, but with just the aforementioned ones, you should be well on your way to wanting to create one.
How hard is it to make a Web Page?
When web development was in it's infancy, you had to know how to put Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) code together. Now that it has grown towards its teenage years, there are numerous web editors that do the hard coding for you. If you have used a word processor, then you should really have no problem using a web editor. Most Web editors, are like word processors with the addition of a couple more bells and whistles.
Now, with a little effort, a mouse and a keyboard, almost anyone can put a web page together (provided of course that they also have a computer and monitor).
What type of web editing software should I use?
On university computers(Labs, offices, LSC) there is a program called Contribute CS3(Start, All programs, SHSU programs, Web Authoring, Contribute, Contribute CS3)
Open the program.
Navigate to your website: http://www.shsu.edu/~org_example
Click the button at the top, create connection.
Click next, for connection type: ftp
Server: unx1.shsu.edu
Username: org_username
Password: password for org
Click next, select publisher, click finished
Once you have it setup, you can select edit page on any page that needs updating.
Other programs to use would be Dreamweaver, Microsoft Expressions(Installed on remote.shsu.edu).
Even Microsoft word can be used if you save the files as html( Be sure to test in both Internet Explorer and Firefox).