Student Web Spaces and Sites

Policy:

Please see the Web Policy page for information about your rights and responsibilities.

General Information:

Students who are currently enrolled at the School of Management will have personal webspace available to them. It will be located on a network mapped drive called the "V" drive and corresponding to the class designation and SOM NetID of the individual. For example, a student from the class of 2003 and assigned the NetID of "yyz123", will find his or her webspace located on this network drive in a folders "/class03/yyz123". Each student has access to their personal "V" drive as soon as he or she is authenticated to the SOM network and will have a quota of 5MB of storage for public html documents.

Students should be aware that ANY materials located within their personal web space (or "V" drive) are viewable via the Internet, unless arrangements are made in advance through the help desk.

We recommend that students develop their web pages off-line and in a local directory on their laptops or desktops and then transfer them to the server. To upload new or modified files and images, the student needs to simply copy the necessary files from their local / desktop drive over to their "V" drive space.

To connect to your web space from the windows run line type:

\\rabbit\netid$

To map this location as your V drive, right click on my computer. Select V as the drive letter and type \\rabbit\netid$ and the folder location.

Student Web Page Templates:

The URL for a student's individual webspace will be http://students.som.yale.edu/class0#/yyz123/index.htm (where "#" stands for either "2" or "3", "yyz123" stands for your NetID, and finally, given that your default web page was "index.htm".) If you are a new student or have never developed pages on our system you may download a set of blank pages that incorporate the look and feel of SOM at http://www.som.yale.edu/itg/webgroup/student_template.zip that you may edit at will. This file should have a total of seven HTML pages in .zip format that you will need to extract to use. We recommend extracting them directly to your "V" drive. These pages (index.htm, bio1.htm, contact1.htm, links1.htm, pics1.htm, social1.htm and work1.htm) are basic, simple HTML template pages to give you a starting point for creating your own pages. They can be replaced by other files, edited to include information expected on each of the individual type pages or left "as is" as a marker for potential web space.

Modifying Student Web Page Templates:

To change the default information located within the template pages found in your web space, you can use either Claris Home Page (found on the lab computers in both B39 and B74) or Macromedia's Dreamweaver (found on the two publishing workstations located in room B30). These two applications are the SOM recommended programs for editing and managing web pages. They are WYSIWYG editors, enabling you to edit and view the page as it will actually be displayed on the web, without having to work precisely with HTML source code. If you prefer, you can still edit most simple HTML pages with Windows editors, such as Notepad provided that you save the files as plain text files with the file extension of "htm" or "html" (i.e. testpage.htm). If you wanted to change the heading on each template page to read your name instead of the default "John Q. Student", open each file up in either Home Page or Dreamweaver, locate the text, select it with the cursor and replace it by typing in your own name. Save and replace the file up into your "V" drive and you have now personalized your web pages. If you plan on editing the files with a Windows editor, open the file using Notepad, search the resulting HTML code until you find the following:

<p><font size="4">The Home Page for <b>John Q. Student</b> - <b>Class of 2003</b></font><font size="6"> <br>

Just cut and replace "John Q. Student" (and/or any other text you wish to modify) with your name or other information and save the page. Place the edited page back to your "V" drive and you've personalized your web page.

Finally, on the template page entitled "contact1.htm", you should change the email address to which the form information will be sent to your own email address. To do this, open up "contact1.htm" in either web editor, and find the following line of code in the document source code:

<form name="contact1" method="post" action="mailto:your.name@yale.edu">

Simply change that email address to read your own (it's most likely "firstname dot lastname @ yale dot edu") and save the file. Replace the file back to your "V" drive and try filling out the form in "contact1.htm"; the results once submitted should be emailed right to your mail account.