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Personal Websites

Overview

All students, staff, faculty, and student organizations have permission to post personal web pages on the Drexel "Pages" server, hosted on dunx1.irt.drexel.edu.

To locate a catalog of currently published personal web pages, view Home pages and Services at this address: http://www.pages.drexel.edu/services.

The URL for published personal web pages is in the form:
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~userid.

Student Organizations

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

Youtube channel  Drexelweb Youtube channel

  • Connecting to your Drexel web space using SSH (Windows)
  • Connecting to your Drexel web space using Fetch (Mac)
  • Configuring Dreamweaver CS5 to connect to your Drexel Web Space
  • Setting Permissions for your Drexel web space

Configuring your dunx1 account

Step by step instructions for configuring your dunx1 account to enable web pages.

Tools and Resources

Training

Editing with Dreamweaver: Class Files (zip)

Layout and Presentation with Dreamweaver: 

Reference

Online Tools

  • Pixlr Image Editor: Online image editor, includes drawing tools and photo effects.
  • Splashup Image Editor: Online image editor, allows you to pull from common photo sharing services.
  • Pixer Photo Editor: Quick basic photo editing (crop, rotate, resize).
  • Text Fixer : Convert Word Documents to HTML
  • Rendera: Type in your HTML code and see it rendered in realtime. A great learning tool for HTML and CSS.

FAQ

I am unable to access my pages folder via the web - the login screen will not accept my username and password.

Academic Unix account passwords expire every 63 days. Visit https://accounts.drexel.edu to manage your account.

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?

Information on downloading official Drexel logos can be found on the University's Graphic Identiy Program site.

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