Recommendations of the Faculty Technology Committee



Fuqua’s External Web Site: Your Individual “Top Level” Faculty Page

Your individual “top level” faculty page refers to the page that a reader of Fuqua’s external web site sees when they click the link for your name from either the “Alphabetical Faculty Directory” or “Listings by Area”. For example, the Alphabetical Faculty Directory page on Fuqua’s external web site looks like the illustration below.

The Faculty Technology Committee has recommended that this top-level faculty page continue to follow a standard format and continue to be maintained under the direction of the Office of the Dean of Faculty, but the Committee has also recommended a change in layout. Currently, the standard faculty page layout on Fuqua’s external web site looks like this sample:

(Thanks to Jim Anton for letting us use his info in these illustrations.)

Go to the web page and click the link for your own name to see your own current, top-level page.

The Faculty Technology Committee has recommended a change in the standard faculty web page layout for two reasons:

1. For Readers

To make it easier for visitors to Fuqua’s external web site to quickly see important information about a faculty member on the faculty member’s top-level page.

2. For Faculty

To facilitate each faculty member’s own optional development of further, more detailed web pages about themselves. As you’ll better understand from the explanation below, a set of web page designs and an easy way to publish them on the web will be made available to each faculty member. With these designs and this publishing method, it should be possible for each faculty member who cares to do so to develop a rich set of personal pages that are part of Fuqua’s web site.

The illustration below again uses Jim Anton’s information to show the new top-level web page layout. To get an view of how this new layout actually looks online, enter this URL in your Netscape web browser:

This more condensed layout would replace the currently-existing standard layout. A reader who wanted more detailed information could click the Additional Information link situated below the photo. If you want to develop more information about yourself beyond the standard top-level page, web page designs are available to assist you. Or, you might choose to use your own layouts.

Work on converting the standard top-level faculty pages to the new format will commence shortly. To be sure that complete and up-to-date information goes on your new page, please return the information sheet that follows to Paula Ecklund. Then read on for more information about how you might choose to develop and publish additional pages about yourself.

|Return Form for Fuqua External Web Site Update |

Please complete this form and return it to Paula Ecklund. Contact Paula if you have any questions (telephone 660-7745, e-mail pecklund, office 108G West). Although some of the information below is already on file for you, please confirm the accuracy of Fuqua’s records by completing this form.

Your Name:

Your Academic Title at Fuqua:

Ph.D.-Granting University and Degree Date:

For expertise and teaching and research interests, please be concise, using no more space than is provided by the lines below.

Expertise:

Please confine your description to the two lines provided above.

Teaching/Research Interests:

Please confine your description to the two lines provided above.

Office Telephone:

Fax:

Email ID:

Please fold and drop in Fuqua’s building mail.

Thank you.

Fold and drop in Fuqua’s building mail.

Paula Ecklund

Fuqua Building Mail

Faculty Pages on Fuqua’s External Web Site

The rest of these notes describe in more detail how your top-level faculty web page works and some additional options available to you for including more material about yourself on Fuqua’s external web site.

Notes about the new top-level page format

▪ The Additional Information Link

Remember that the top-level page will be maintained for you by Fuqua, in the standard layout described above. However, you can make more detailed information about yourself available from the standard top-level page through the link under your photograph that reads Additional Information. See the excerpt at right.

For example, by clicking the Additional Information link a reader might find your executive biography, vita, research summary, working papers, and so on. Adding additional information about yourself to the web site is optional. You yourself add, control, and maintain any additional information you want to establish from this top-level page link. A set of web page designs are available to help you (or your secretary) add more information. If you prefer not to add more information about yourself, then anyone clicking the Additional Information link will simply see a web page with a message that no additional information is available, or a “file not found” message (more below).

▪ How the Additional Information Link Works

Special Web Folders: You have a special folder on your personal FuquaNet H: drive named public_html. Any web document you put in this special folder is visible on the World Wide Web[1]. Located in the folder hierarchy beneath your public_html folder is a subfolder named Bio. This subfolder has been created for you to facilitate your adding additional information about yourself to the web.

A Special File: The Additional Information link on your top-level faculty page will point to a special file named index.htm located in your H:\public_html\Bio folder. Currently, you do not have an index.htm file in your bio folder. Here are three paths you might take with regard to the index.htm file:

1. Do nothing

If you take no action, a reader clicking the Additional Information link on your top-level web page will get a typical web error message indicating that no file was found. You might choose this option if you don’t care at this time to provide any additional information on Fuqua’s web site though this link.

2. Do nothing but provide a better error message

If you don’t want to develop additional material on the web at this time but you want readers to get a more graceful error message than “file note found” when they click the link, you can copy from the design file location described below to your H:\public_html\Bio folder the file named NoInfo.htm and rename the file Index.htm. This file contains the message “No additional information is available”.

3. Use the web page designs or make your own file layout and develop your Fuqua presence on the web through this link.

For example, if you want to use the web page designs provided, you (or your secretary) can get copies of the design files, “fill in the blanks” with your own information, and locate the design files in your H:\public_html\Bio folder. All the information you provide would then be available to the reader clicking your Additional Information link.

If you want to provide additional information but you prefer not to use the designs, you can create your own web pages or use web pages you’ve already created. In terms of links, just be aware that the Additional Information link on your top-level page will be pointing to the file index.htm in your FuquaNet H:\public_html\Bio folder. So whatever web page you want the Additional Information link to go to, give that page the name index.htm and locate it there.

▪ What the “Index.htm” Faculty Web Page Design File Looks Like

This is a design for the web page a reader might see when they click the Additional Information link from your top-level faculty web page. As you can see, the index.htm file actually serves as a gateway to other pages about you on the web. This page contains a list of links to other pages about you. You might think of it as a sort of table of contents.

Things to note about this web page design:

1. The page includes a header graphic: the Fuqua "arc" logo with the text "Fuqua Faculty".

2. The page includes a footer with "Fuqua Faculty" and "Contact Me" links. (The “Contact Me” link is intended to be a simple “mailto” HTML link.)

3. The page has a set of standard navigation links (Executive Bio, Vita, Research Summary, and Working Papers). These standard navigation links appear on all the design files in this set. (If you don’t want to develop information about yourself in all these areas at first, you can remove the links you don’t need.)

▪ Executive Bio, Vita, Research Summary, and Working Papers Designs

These four design files have standard header, footer, and navigation links. If you decided to use these designs, add your personal information (replacing the “header” and “body text” notations) and locate the revised files in your H:\public_html\Bio folder.

▪ Where to Get the Design Files

Copies of the design files may be viewed and downloaded from this web page:



This is a summary of the sample design files and what they’re for:

|File Name |What the file is |

| |This web page file is like a table of contents into the other content-rich pages. The reader |

| |who clicks the “Additional Information” link on your top-level page goes to this page. The |

|index.htm |index.htm file includes links to the other files named here. You can add links to or remove |

| |links from this page as you like. |

|ex_bio.htm |Executive bio web page design file. |

|research_sum.htm |Research summary web page design file |

|working_papers.htm |Working papers web page design file. |

| |If you plan not to develop any further web presence at this time, you may want to copy this |

| |file to your h:\public_html\bio folder and rename it “index.htm”. This file contains a line |

| |that reads “No additional information is available”. This provides a more graceful |

|NoInfo.htm |alternative for the readers who click the “Additional Information” link on your top-level |

| |page. Otherwise, the reader will simply get a “file not found” message. |

| |All the web page designs contain these graphics. So the pages display properly on the web, |

| |you’ll need to copy these three graphic files to put in your h:\public_html\Bio folder. |

| | |

| |[pic] |

|Footer_a.gif | |

| |[pic] |

| | |

| | |

|Footer_b.gif |[pic] |

|(use to create a mailto link) | |

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| | |

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|Fuqua_header.GIF | |

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▪ How You Might Use the Design Files

If you decide to use the web file designs you might use the DreamWeaver web editor to edit the design files. Contact Fuqua’s Technical Support Center staff (660-7878) to have a copy of DreamWeaver loaded on your computer. Faculty secretaries are soon to receive DreamWeaver training though Fuqua’s IT group. Their training will specifically cover how to edit these files for you if you prefer not to manage them yourself.

One of the components of Netscape Navigator is a web editor named “Composer”. Composer is relatively easy to use and because you’re running Netscape on your desktop you have Composer at hand. If you’d like to use Composer to work with the files, open Netscape and choose Communicator and then Composer from Netscape’s main menus. Composer opens in a new window. For information about how to use Composer, consult Netscape’s online help.

It’s also possible to open and edit the files using Microsoft Word. As a web editor, Word is somewhat clumsy, doesn't show the graphics, and produces a non-standard type of file. However, for simple text entry or copy and paste into the files, this method may work well for you. Word includes online help about how to edit a web page.

▪ Publishing Your Revised Web Pages

As mentioned briefly above, Fuqua faculty can now publish to the web by using the Windows Explorer interface and dragging and dropping HTML pages to their FuquaNet H:\public_html folder. Since you’re editing and publishing these files yourself, you have complete control over them and immediate access to them, so it will be easy for you to make changes and additions.

If you use the Fuqua faculty sample design files, publish your personalized web files by dragging and dropping them to your own H\public_html\Bio folder. Then anyone using Fuqua’s external web site can access the information by clicking the Additional Information link from your top-level faculty web page.

If you plan to have your secretary complete the files for you, you’ll likely want to have your secretary give you copies of the finished files so you can publish them since your H: drive is accessible only to you. Of course you can have your secretary use your computer to perform the drag and drop operation for you if you wish.

Although most of the readers looking at your information on the web will access the information through links on Fuqua’s external web site, for your information, the web page name associated with your H:\public_html\Bio location is:



For example, the URL for your index.htm file would be:



▪ Other Notes

Your Photo: The top-level faculty page includes your photo. If you haven’t had a photo of yourself taken for Fuqua or if you want to update your photo please contact Tim Searles or Justin Carlson in Fuqua’s AV group (telephone x7790) to do so.

Software: Fuqua has adopted Macromedia’s highly-regarded DreamWeaver software as its web editor. DreamWeaver is now available on all MBA computers at Fuqua. Contact Fuqua’s Technical Support Center staff (telephone x7878) to have DreamWeaver installed.

Secretarial Training: Fuqua faculty secretaries will receive DreamWeaver training. To start with, their training will be specifically in how to edit the faculty web page design files. After going through this training your secretary should be able to assist you with faculty web page design files. Later training will include more general web editing topics. This additional training may permit your secretary to assist you with more ambitious web page projects such as class web pages and the like.

For Area Coordinators

Faculty Area Web Pages

Fuqua’s Faculty Technology Committee has generated a design to be used as the top-level web page on Fuqua’s external web site for each area. John Payne’s office will be responsible for publishing a top-level page for each area to the web site, using summary information provided to him by each area’s coordinator.

The top-level area page looks like this:

There are several links at the top of the sample page. An area might decide to use these links (or ones like them) to add additional information about the area to Fuqua’s external web site. Or, an area might decide not to have any links on the top-level page at all if they don’t care to develop an area presence on the web beyond this top-level page.

In summary, the Dean of Faculty will establish a top-level web page for each area. The text on the top-level page will contain information provided by that area’s coordinator. Any further information the area wants on the web would be created and published by the area in whatever arrangement they choose. The links (if any) on the top-level area page are to be determined by the area. Locations on Fuqua’s web server have been established to hold area web files.

In the example area page above, example links have been established. One can follow the links to see the design files for these additional, optional area pages:

Decision Sciences Faculty

Research Highlights

Activities and Events

Course Information

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[1] This simple drag-and-drop method of publishing to the web replaces the method we previously had to use which was to FTP files to godzilla.acpub.duke.edu, Duke’s web server computer. This new method is currently available to Fuqua faculty only, not to staff or students.

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