Mathematics and Physics

Computing

OneDrive Web Pages

If you have an account on this server, then your files on the server are your server web files. There are copies of your server web files in a folder in your OneDrive. The files in your OneDrive folder, your OneDrive web files, sync with your server web files every 30 seconds.

This OneDrive folder is called UNH_department_server or MyFiles/UNH_department_server. To set up your OneDrive folder, click OneDrive Server Access.

Your personal web pages are viewed using a web browser at the URL https://math.newhaven.edu/~username, where username is your UNH username.

If you are accessing the files through OneDrive online, you can edit the files directly by selecting Open > Open in Text Editor. If you installed the OneDrive app on your laptop, and you are accessing the files through a OneDrive folder on your laptop, use Notepad++ (Windows) or Bbedit (macOS). Both these editors are free.

Since any folder in OneDrive may be shared, you may delegate web page maintenance to others, by sharing the folder with them.

Faculty only: Once your web page is set up, you may want to email Kaza Ayersman (kayersman@newhaven.edu) to add the link to it as a Personal Page link on your university profile page. This way Google and others can find it.

Modifying OneDrive Web Pages

These are the instructions for modifying your web pages, assuming your web pages are set up using the UNH template. Remember, you are modifying the files in your

WebFolder = OneDrive/MyFiles/UNH_department_server

All web pages are built using three languages, HTML, CSS, and JS. These languages work together to render web pages: HTML specifies the logical page structure (headings, paragraphs, italics, images, etc), CSS specifies the style (fonts, colors, positioning, background, etc), and JS specifies the dynamic aspects (how the page changes in response to an action on your part).

What are the advantages of using the UNH template? Apart from a consistent look, the UNH template is easy to set up. For the UNH template, no knowledge of CSS or JS is needed, just basic HTML tags. Do not include any of your own CSS or JS unless you know what you're doing, because it will break elements of the template. Use only the basic tags

<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <p> <i> <b> <u> <ul> <ol> <li> <a href="..." > <img src="..." >

Each tag <h1> has a corresponding closing tag </h1>. For example, paragraphs are enclosed in <p>...</p> and the HTML code for the last two paragraphs is

<p>
	All web pages are built using three languages, HTML, CSS, and JS. These languages work together to render 
	web pages: HTML specifies the <i>logical</i> page structure (headings, paragraphs, italics, images, 
	etc), CSS specifies the <i>style</i> (fonts, colors, positioning, background, etc), and JS specifies 
	the <i>dynamic</i> aspects (how the page changes in response to an action on your part).
</p>
<p>
	What are the advantages of using the UNH template? Apart from a consistent look, the UNH template is easy to set 
	up.  For the UNH template, no knowledge of CSS or JS is needed, just basic HTML tags. <i>Do not include any 
	of your own CSS or JS unless you know what you're doing, because it will break elements of the template.</i>  
	Use only the basic tags
</p>

The UNH template is responsive; this means the template layout adjusts automatically to being viewed on a phone. The UNH template also incorporates MathJax, which allows you to write equations/graphs/diagrams/circuits directly in your web page using LaTeX.

Instructions

The WebFolder folder contains files and folders arranged in a tree

WebFolder
└── index.html
└── navbar.html
└── research
    └── index.html
└── teaching
    └── index.html
└── images
    └── selfie.jpeg
└── dropdown
    └── index.html
    └── a
        └── index.html
    └── b
        └── index.html

Each folder contains a file index.html. This is the default landing page for a browser. When you enter the URL https://math.newhaven.edu/~username/folder1/folder2, the web server returns the contents of the file WebFolder/folder1/folder2/index.html.

For example, the contents of the file WebFolder/teaching/index.html are returned when entering the URL https://math.newhaven.edu/~username/teaching in your web browser.

All your website URLs start with /~username/ These URLs map to files in username's (that is you) WebFolder.

When inserting links into web pages, no need to include in the URL the server math.newhaven.edu or the protocol https. The defaults are assumed, and links are written as above and below.

When you open an HTML file, always open it in an editor (above) as plain or raw text, not in rich or formatted text. This way you can see the HTML tags. For example, the contents of the file WebFolder/teaching/index.html consists of the following four lines

<!--#include virtual="/templates/header.html" -->
<!--#include virtual="/~username/navbar.html" -->

<h2>Teaching</h2>

<!--#include virtual="/templates/footer.html" -->

The entire teaching page file, with all its bells and whistles, corresponds to just four lines. If you do not see exactly this when you open your teaching.html file, then you haven't opened it as plain or raw text.

The use of the include statements is a huge time-saving mechanism: The above four lines total 167 bytes, but, when viewed through a browser, the corresponding web page totals 32,018 bytes.

Do not modify the first two and the last lines, only modify the space between: The <h2> header, and any text you want you insert. You can guess what the three lines do: they insert all the UNH heading boilerplate, the footing boilerplate, and your personal navigation menubar. Here are notes to help with file modification.

  1. Careful: Everything is case-sensitive.
  2. These are instructions to modify existing files. To create new files or folders, see the last step below.
  3. Do not copy old web pages blindly. Only copy and paste content, never code. Use View Page Source in your web browser to extract and copy content from an old web page. Do not copy CSS or JS code (anything that you do not understand). Doing so will break your page.
  4. The folder containing your entire website is WebFolder, and the file WebFolder/index.html is the main entry page
  5. Additional files WebFolder/teaching/index.html, WebFolder/research/index.html, etc correspond to menu items in the file WebFolder/navbar.html.
  6. Each menu item x in the file WebFolder/navbar.html has a corresponding file WebFolder/x/index.html.
  7. You may add an item x to the menu, just modify WebFolder/navbar.html accordingly, and add a folder WebFolder/x containing a file index.html set up like one of the others.
  8. The main file WebFolder/index.html assumes there is an image file WebFolder/images/selfie.jpeg (image size: 144x256 pixels)
  9. The folder "dropdown" is there in case you want to add a dropdown menu to the navbar menu. This is optional. To add it to the menu, delete the lines indicated in WebFolder/navbar.html.
  10. To make a new index.html file, it's best to copy over a folder containing such a file then rename and modify contents.

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