Introduction

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering provides a mechanism for publishing material on the World Wide Web. The primary aim of this facility will be to provide graduate students with a medium for academic and academic related publishing. This publicly available site will include research and results, collaborative data resources, and personal material related to a students academic life at Carleton.

Usage guidelines

Any current graduate student with a valid CEE Domain account can request access to the file area that will be publicly available via a web server. Continued access will be contingent on the user observing the following general conditions.

In general the Golden Rules as found at http://apps.carleton.ca/gen/guideline/golden/default.php will apply to the usage of these accounts. With particular attention to the following items;

Concerning personal world-wide web pages, students are reminded that these publications reflect upon the university, and should be in keeping with the tone of an academic environment. Students are forbidden to use their personal WWW pages to disseminate or facilitate the distribution of material of the following types: commercial, illegal, copyright, or pornographic. This includes providing pointers to sites which publish such material.

This system is provided for authorized users *only*. While every attempt is made to respect the privacy of Carleton users, general usage is monitored in order to detect unauthorized access and illegal activities. When illegal or inappropriate activities are suspected, users' files may be inspected. Anyone making use of this computer system expressly consents to such monitoring and is advised that evidence of criminal activity may be provided to law enforcement officials.

Practical Matters

Web access is not automatic; all users must apply for this privilege. Application is made by sending an email to stanley_conley@carleton.ca with a subject of Grad web page or similar and please state in your email what your intended purpose is. Recipt of this email by the department will imply that you have read all the information here and understand and will comply with the objectives of this service. Implimentation of web access will generally be less than two working days and you will receive a return email when it is ready for your use.

The existence of any web available material is tied to your status as a student. As with CEE domain account, users are valid only for the period of time they are enrolled as a student with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, All accounts generally have a short grace period following the end of official association with the Department but at no time should these accounts, or the material placed in the WWW account be considered permanent. The department does not intend to preserve the existence of any material; files or links after the student is no longer registered. It is strongly advised that all users maintain a personal off-site archive of all files on the CEE Domain.

All users will be expected to include on their web page(s) a reference to the host department, and contact information for the public should they wish to bring anything to the hosting departments attention. To assist users this is provided as an htlm code fragment for a very basic web page that you can modify to build your web page(s). This file is grad.cee.carleton.ca/gradaduate_student_template.html. For those wishing to use microsoft publisher to create their pages there is a publisher file graduate_student_template.pub which provides a starting point and looks like this. Warning! Publisher does not create HTML4.0 compliant web pages and your results are lot likley to be rendered as you intend in any browser than Microsoft Explorer. Both of these files will be placed in the web root directory of any new user for ready access.

From a practical point of view, your web accessible pages (HTML, photos, files etc.) are in a directory separate from your account home directory (folder). If your account login is flast your web directory will be \\marlbank\websites\flast. Administrative control and user, or public access to this folder can be changed separately from your home directory. All material placed in this directory will be publicly accessible and will appear as grad.cee.carleton.ca/~flast where flast will be replaced with your CEE Domain account name. Note for the above to work your initial web page must be named index.htm or index.html. Your access to this folder is straight forward, once logged on to your CEE account, open explorer (ie open up My Documents) and in the address bar enter //Marlbank/websites/your_login_name and your web folder should open. Remember this is not a secure folder, anything in the folder is potentially visible to anyone over the web.You can create a shortcut on your desktop to point to this folder for quick and easy access.

Users should take steps to conserve the resources available. There is a limited shared file space available and using appropriate image sizes etc will conserve bandwidth requirements for viewing the web pages. You should also strive to prepare high quality HTML that will be compatible with many available browsers. Remember, in the case of web interactions the experience is often more important than the information as in-appropriate design and poor implementation may render your message lost in the users browser. A starting point for creating HTML web pages is located at: http://apps.carleton.ca/web/hosting/web_html.php which also includes links to further information and tutorials.

This page is maintained by Stanley Conley.