Personal Websites
All students, staff, faculty, and student organizations* have permission to post personal web pages on the Drexel "Pages" server.
The URL for personal web pages is in the form:
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~userid.
*Student organizations who wish to post web pages on the Drexel Pages server must first request recognition via the Office of Campus Activities, Creese Student Center Room 215, 215-895-1328, or askoca@drexel.edu.Once recognized, the organization leader requests a student organization account from accounts@drexel.edu. Student organization accounts cannot be created until the OCA has completed the recognition process.
Tutorials
Configuring your dunx1 account
Step by step instructions for configuring your dunx1 account to enable web pages.
Software
Download Dreamweaver CS4 Trial
(requires Adobe registration)
Download a full-featured 30-day free trial of Dreamweaver CS4
Dreamweaver Training
IRT offers beginner and intermediate training in Dreamweaver, Adobe's web editing software.
Dreamweaver Beginner - Participants will be introduced to the Dreamweaver interface, learn the basic concepts of what makes up a website, use Dreamweaver to setup a site and create basic web pages containing all of the most common web page elements.
Dreamweaver Intermediate - Participants will be introduced to the concept of separating structure from presentation. Using Dreamweaver, students will create a basic cascading style sheet to define the look and feel of their website and apply that stylesheet to all the pages of their site.
FAQ
I am unable to access my pages folder via the web - the login screen will not accept my username and password.
Every time I ftp to the pages server, no public_html folder is present
New academic Unix accounts contain a public_html folder upon creation. However, if you have a Unix account that was not created recently, you may need to create the public_html folder. You can use the MKDIR command using SFTP. Most SFTP software programs include a menu item for making new folders or directories.
How do I connect to the academic unix server and transfer files into it?
You need to use an SFTP (secure file transfer protocol) program.
Windows: SSH, Mac: Fetch or Fugu
Where can I download a Drexel logo for my website?
I've uploaded my HTML files to the public_html folder on the dunx1 server but I can 't view my web pages.
You need to set the proper permissions for the home directory and public_html folder. Please read Setting Permissions for instructions.
What is the URL to view my web pages?
You can view your pages at: http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~your_userid
