Guidelines for Graduate Student Web Pages

J.W. Chinneck, Associate Chair for Graduate Studies

March 10, 1997

Introduction

This document provides a brief set of guidelines governing the creation of personal world wide web pages by graduate students in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering. Please follow these guidelines when creating your own page. The facilities for hosting web pages are made available by the Department as a courtesy to our students, and can be removed at the discretion of the Department. Follow these guidelines to help insure that your page stays up.

Template

A standard template is suggested for your page. See this template for guideline.

Link

The link to your page will be from the grad list (at http://www.sce.carleton.ca/grads/). Contact Narendra Mehta to set up this link after you have done the following:

• create directory public_html off your home directory in UNIX/Linux. This directory and its contents must be readable by all.
• In Winodws, the above directory is mapped to M: drive.
• Copy the template to this public_html directory and rename it to index.html. Modify the contents of this file.
• Ask one of your friends to browse your web pages from their accounts to confirm that the web pages are readable by users others then yourself. The URL to use would be "http://www.sce.carleton.ca/~loginname", where 'loginname' is your UNIX account login name. If they cannot read the web page, make sure the directory permissions on your home directory AND public_html directory are 'r-x' for the world. This can be achieved as 'chmod 755 public_html' and 'chmod 755 /home/your_login_name'. The permissions can also be set on a Windows machine.

Photo

Contact Danny Lemay about a digital photo for your page. He has a digital camera which can create an image file for use on your page.

Space Limitations

Your entire web presence (home page, plus any associated pages) should not exceed 500 kbytes in size. In particular, note the guideline about posting published papers, which follows next.

Copyright Issues

You must respect copyright laws in your web pages. Do not post unauthorized copies of material, even if freely available elsewhere on the web. In particular, remember that the copyright for any of your own published papers usually rests with the publisher (e.g. journal, book, etc.). This means that you cannot put up complete postscript versions of the paper on the web. In any case, for space reasons, we recommend that you put up only the abstracts of papers.

Content Issues

It is expected that your site will be free of discriminatory, inflammatory, racist, sexist, violent, etc. material. Such material is damaging not only to your personal reputation, but also to the reputation of the Department and the university, and will not be tolerated. Your web page exists at the discretion of the Department, and will be shut down if you contravene these guidelines in the opinion of the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies.