To: sipb-iap-sucker
Subject: web sites
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 13:57:27 -0500
From: Alex <xela>

Vikash's mail reminds me:  I always encouraged people to use
our web space at
/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/www/iap

For each class, we should make a directory under 2002, and create
a symlink in the root:

cd /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/www/iap
mkdir 2002/<class-name>
ln -s 2002/<class-name> <class-name>
# note we need to make sure the class moira list is a group for the
# next line to work; you can do that with listmaint for sure, and
# probably with moira or balnche
cd 2002/<class-name>
fs sa . sipb-iap-<class> write

The results of this are that the faculty can write stuff in that
directory, and when someone hits
http://www.mit.edu/iap/<class-name>
with a web browser, it will load the index.html file in the class
directory.  This also means we have a convenient archive of prior-
years' IAP class web pages.

Some faculty don't want to do this, and some of course can't
because they don't have athena accounts.  I at least make an
index.html in the appropriate place as a redirect page; you can
see an example at
/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/www/iap/2001/latex/index.html

One advantage of this is I can submit class web page URLs
to the IAP guide for all classes, even if I have no info at
all from the instructors.

In the past I've created a barebones template index.html and
put it in each directory; some people blow it away, but for those
who use it instead, it gives a little bit of a common feel and 
makes sure certain basic info is on each class home page:  a link
to the IAP schedule*, a link to the SIPB IAP page, a couple other
things.  I don't think I did that last year, and I can't right 
off find an example of such a template in the iap web directory.

You should also know that there's scratch space for the iap sucker
at /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/iap.  This is useful for keeping stuff
out of your quota; also I found a few useful crumbs there when
I first became sucker.

* I keep trying to find you online to answer your Excel question.
The windows version will of course have different menu layout, but:
select the hidden rows (click in a cell above them, shift-click 
(probably; whatever you do in windoze to select a range) on a 
cell below them).  On a mac you would then pull down the "Format"
menu and select "Row...", which will give you a submenu, one of
whose options is "unhide"

That's all I can think of for now.

---Alex


Carl Alexander                                                    KD7GUR
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                  Mitgaard ("honorary mold")    MITSFS    LSC (night worker)
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carl@terc.edu     Sr. Systems & Network Engineer, TERC
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