Student Organizations

Accessing Your Student Org Webspace

• You must have a UNIX account to access webspace on the School of Medicine server. All MS1, 2, 3, and 4 students should already have this account. If you are not an MS1, 2, 3, or 4 and are not sure if you have the appropriate account, contact Client Services at help@med.unc.edu or 966-1325.
• If you do not have a UNIX account, you will need to go to OIS Client Services in Med School Wing B room 109 (M-F, 10am-2pm) with your One Card. They will help you fill out an application for a UNIX account. In about 3-5 days you will receive a letter stating that your UNIX account was created. Once it's created and OIS has received the information below, then you will be given access to the webspace.
• Email Client Services at help@med.unc.edu and let them know that you need access to your organization's web space (or if you need web space created). Include the following information:
  • Whether or not you're creating an all new site or taking over web development duties from someone else.
  • Your SOMid and the SOMid of the last person who had access to make pages.
  • If you are a MS1, 2, 3, 4, other.
  • If a new site, what you'd like the URL to be.  For example: wms for whitehead medical society (www.med.unc.edu/wms/). You may not get your first choice!
• Once access to the webspace is granted, you may access your web site using FTP. OIS Client Services will contact you with the appropriate settings.
• Please direct any questions to OIS Client Services at help@med.unc.edu or 966-1325.

Creating and Publishing a Web Site

Many students choose to edit their web sites with Mozilla Composer (a free editor included in the Mozilla Suite) and publish with SFTP. If you are an MS2 or MS3 student, you should already have these programs on your laptop. If you are an MS1, MS4 or other student, you may need to download the software. Composer and SFTP are free downloads; see individual documentation for download information.

Important Things To Remember:

• The first page of your web site should be named "welcome.htm" (not index.htm)
• Use the extension .htm instead of .html
• Use lowercase file names (capitalization does matter!). Do NOT use spaces in your file names (your links will not work if you do)
• Do NOT use special symbols or characters (i.e. !, @, #, $, -, etc...)

 
Note: It is your responsibility to upload your webpages to the server. OIS will give you access to your directory, but you will need to post your pages to your webspace. Please be sure to plan ahead as we cannot post or update your webpages for you.

Templates

Below are some templates to get you started--including the school logo, but not otherwise standardized. Just save them to your own computer by right clicking on the link and choosing "Save As" and then rename the file.