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Web Publishing at Goshen College

Students at Goshen College can publish personal pages, publicize résumés on the web, create web pages for student clubs and organizations, and use their personal accounts on Goshen's webserver for personal and class work. Get started by reading the GCWeb publishers' manual.

Faculty and Staff can author pages themselves, and edit departmental pages. A number of services are also available to help with class- and campus-related projects:

WebCorps is taking on some academic projects.
Moodle provides a simple framework for making course materials available on the web. See the Educational Technology pages for more information.
Paul Meyer Reimer teaches "Creating for the Web", and students are often looking for a web publising project.
Paul also maintains a list of students interested and experienced in web design--contact .

Related information

GCWeb publishers' manual	Start here to learn how to author pages yourself. Contains links to GCWeb publishing policy, campus page templates, how to save pages on the GC web server, and much more.
Educational Technology	More information on CourseInfo.
WebCorps	A group of top student web designers is generating some of the content for the Goshen College website.

Contacts

Send your questions and comments about web publishing at Goshen College to . Mail to arachnid is read by the web development team at Goshen College, which currently includes:

Paul Meyer Reimer -- Web administrator and 'editor-in-chief' of the GC web site,
Thushan Hemachandra -- Web Designer for Public Relations

Personal Web Pages

If you have a Goshen College email address, there is also a storage space reserved on the Goshen College Web server just for you! Your personal Web page hierarchy at GC has a URL something like: http://www2.goshen.edu/~mynamehere . Students, faculty, and staff can publish their own Web pages on the GC site. To do this, you must first map the network drive where your personal pages are stored.

On Windows: Open Computer, then, in the menu right below the address bar, click the button labeled "Map network drive." In the first drop-down menu, select any unused letter. Then, in the space below, type in \\www2\yourusername . This will open an Explorer window containing two folders. The folder labeled "mypages" contains your personal pages. In this folder, there is a file named index.html. This is the home page of your website. Using Dreamweaver, you can edit this page, and add additional pages to your personal web space.

You can use your personal Web space to publish your resumé online, to share writing or research you have done, to display artwork, to store your favorite links, and much much more.