Lawrence University encourages the creation of personal websites by
members of the Lawrence community. Every student, faculty, and staff
member at Lawrence has an account on LU's web server with a template web
page included.
Size limitations are as follows:
Faculty have 15 MB of space on the web server.Your personal web page can be found at:
Staff members have 10 MB of space on the web server.
Students have 10 MB of space on the web server.
http://www.lawrence.edu/fast/username (for faculty/staff), or
http://www.lawrence.edu/stu/username (for students)
(in both cases, substitute your own Lawrence username for "username" in the address). The page you see there is your default home page. It is accordingly named default.html.
In addition to this policy page, please also read the Recommended Guidelines page for general Web best-practices, as well as important information for protecting our community against spam, privacy, and security threats.
Publishing your website
On-campus there are several ways to publish web files. You may use one of the following:
- Ws_FTP is available on Lawrence-owned Windows stations
- FETCH is available on Lawrence-owned Macintosh stations
- Macromedia Dreamweaver is a web editor for both Windows and Macintosh platforms which is available on most Lawrence-owned computers. Using Dreamweaver and an internet browser, you may edit existing webpages live. Technology Services offers training sessions in this program on an as-requested basis. Contact the Helpdesk to schedule a session.
Identifying your website on the list of LU homepages
The personal page directories, accessible at Lawrence Directories, are generated by a little script that looks for pages named welcome.html. So, if you want your page to show up on the list of homepages, simply save your home page as welcome.html instead of default.html.
Important Notices
Personal webpages are not publications of Lawrence University; rather, they are publications by the individuals that create and maintain them. As such, the individual is subject to all local, state, or federal laws (including those governing copyright, libel, or obscenity). Lawrence University will not monitor or otherwise censor personal webpages, but will report any complaints of potentially illegal activities to the appropriate authorities and may take other actions as noted below:
Commercial use of Lawrence University computer systems is strictly prohibited.
Permission to publish a personal webpage using the Lawrence network is contingent on the observance of the following:
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Contents of the page must not violate the
Technology Services Acceptable Use Statement,
or the regulations regarding computer use presented in the student
and employee handbooks.
In particular, content will be considered inappropriate if it:
- Is derogatory or libelous.
- Violates national laws or university policy.
- Is confidential or proprietary and is published without permission.
- Infringes on the rights of another person.
- Is abusive, profane or sexually offensive to the average person.
- Promotes commercial products or services.
- Each personal web page that is hosted on a Lawrence University network must include a standardized link to the official disclaimer page. This link's information and a graphic will be included in the template webpage provided to you.
- Each webpage must include the name and e-mail address of the person maintaining it.
Links for Web Development
In addition to these links, faculty and staff may be interested in the resources listed at the bottom of the main Web Resources page.
Many of these links point to outside resources. We will try to keep them up-to-date, but please let us know if you have any good links to submit, or discover that any of these resources have moved.
- Recommended Guidelines
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- Information we've put together regarding subjects like Web best practices, ADA regulations, privacy, and anti-spam, among others.
- Accessibility (it's really important, and legally required!)
- Coding and Design
