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Building a Basic Website at MUSC: A Step-by-Step Guide

This guide provides detailed instructions on how to build a basic website at MUSC, covering essential steps such as mapping the 'homeroom' network drive to your computer, creating an index.html file to serve as your homepage, and organizing content effectively. Key features include tips on using templates, adding hyperlinks, and ensuring easy navigation. Whether it's for showcasing your curriculum vitae, papers, or photo albums, this guide will help you establish a clean and functional online presence.

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Building a Basic Website at MUSC: A Step-by-Step Guide

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  1. How to build a (basic) website at MUSC Elizabeth Garrett-Mayer April 28, 2014

  2. Homeroom • You must map the ‘homeroom’ network drive to your computer. • The name of the drive is (but replace “netid” with your netid: \\homeroom.musc.edu\netid

  3. Go to homeroom • Notice the ‘public_html’ folder • Everything in it is “public” • Can be seen be anyone, even if it isn’t created as a specific hyperlink • Open the public_html folder

  4. index.html • In public_html, open or create an index.html file using a word processing program (e.g. Word, Emacs, WinEdt) • Be sure to save it as a .htm or .html file. • This file is your ‘homepage’

  5. Creating your home page • Should be clean and easy to navigate • Make links to relevant content • CV • Papers • Photos album • Don’t try to put too much on the home page

  6. Using templates • You can easily organize using a table with hidden gridlines (my strategy) • Find other peoples pages and save the source code: edit it to make it yours. • Some examples: • http://bcb.dfci.harvard.edu/~gp/ • http://www.columbia.edu/~yc632/ • http://rafalab.dfci.harvard.edu/ • http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/

  7. Adding in links • Right click, add hyperlink • Create a new page • Add in a photo

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