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How Do I Get Started?

Anyone with a eGCC Account can create and publish a web site as easily as they can create word processor documents for printing.

You will need the following before you get started:

  1. eGCC Username
  2. Some knowledge of the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) programming language, which is the format for web- based documents. Tutorials can be found on the Internet by doing a quick search for "HTML 4.01 Tutorial".
  3. An HTML editor program. Our GCC Webmaster suggests using Microsoft FrontPage or Macromedia Dreamweaver for your web site development needs. Or, you can use Notepad available in Windows

Before you continue, please read the following:

Note: The Technology Resource Standards of the Maricopa Community Colleges specify that web sites published by the college, including those of students, be limited to "educational, research, service, operational, and management purposes of the Maricopa County Community College District." Please see the GCC Web Guidelines for additional information.

Also, there is the requirement that the home page of every site must include a specific legal disclaimer, or a link to a page with the exact language displayed in a conspicuous manner. For consistency, GCC encourages web authors to include a link to the official college disclaimer page with the words "Legal Disclaimer."

This means you are responsible for everything on your website, and by creating your web page, you agree to the guidelines outlined in the Technology Resource Standards and in the GCC Web Guidelines. Also, every web page you write to be used on your website under your eGCC Username must have a link to the GCC Legal Disclaimer, just like this site does at the bottom of this page.

How do I start creating my website?

Every website has at least two items: a specific file, and a folder on the server that contains all your website's documents. That specific file is typically called "index.html" and the folder in our case is called "public.www", which should be placed on the H: Drive, NOT the S: Drive.

You are welcome to start creating your Website either while using any of GCC's computers on campus or at home. If you decide to work on your website at home at any point, be sure to take a look at our Working From Off Campus page, which talks about accessing your H: Drive from home so you can upload necessary files to your H: Drive.

Here are the four simple steps to take to get your web page going (we're assuming you're starting this while on campus):

  1. On your H:\ drive, the personal space created for you on eGCC, there should already be a folder called "public.www", without the quotation marks. If not, please create one.
  2. Create a new HTML document in your HTML editor or in the Notepad application available with Windows.
  3. Save your file periodically as you work on it! To save your file, select "Save As..." from the File Menu and do the following:
    • Select the "public.www" folder in the "Save in:" list to save your changes AND publish your site. Or, create a new folder that will store your HTML files as you work on them before you publish.
    • Name your file "index.html", without the quotation marks
    • Select HTML Document from the options in the "Save as Type" list. In Notepad, select "All Files" in the "Save as Type" list - if you don't do this, Notepad will save your document as a Text file (index.html.txt), which will result in your page to NOT be readable by web browsers.
    • Click "Save".
  4. To publish your web page, make sure the file is in the public.www folder you created earlier. If you saved your file to another folder, copy and paste the file into the public.www folder. Remember, anything in the public.www folder is viewable by anyone visiting your website's hyperlink.
  5. Also, if you were looking at public.www under H:, it'd be located at H:\public.www

How do I view my web space?

The URL, or web address, for your website will be:

  • http://web.gccaz.edu/~eGCCusername

Remember to replace "eGCC_username" with your eGCC Username. Note that the address for your specific web site contains a tilde (~) located just before the eGCC_username.

 

 

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