Web Services

Web Publishing Procedures

Please read the procedures that correspond to the type of Web site you plan to publish:

Note: For student organization Web pages, see administrative procedures.

Administrative Web Pages

An administrative page communicates official information about the services, requirements, or curriculum of the college, including pages for college departments, administrative offices, special events, college-wide or administrative committees, and official college publications. All administrative pages have a similar look and feel and are tested and reviewed before being linked from the main TMCC Web Site, and are subsequently monitored by the TMCC webmaster.

Posting an administrative page for the first time involves the following steps.

  1. Contact Web Services. Let the Webmaster know of any special features on your pages. Narrow down the intended audience for your page(s) and specifically what function you envision the page(s) performing. A consultation should be arranged. TMCC has suggestions and guidelines for authors of official pages to help make the page as user-friendly, accessible and appealing as possible.
  2. Decide who in your department will be responsible for updating your Web page content. Content needs to be refreshed and updated on an ongoing basis. The department "Web content provider" will be the main point of contact and is responsible for providing updates. The Web content provider will need to supply Web Services all the text for the pages in electronic format prior to its creation.
  3. Page Creation. All administrative pages will have TMCC's "look and feel." Please supply all text electronically, preferably in Microsoft Word format. You will be given a rough time frame for the production of your pages. Your review and approval will be necessary before any official page is posted to production. Depending on workload, please allow up to 2-3 weeks for completion of your pages.

    When creating Web pages for departments, please remember that it is best to put the more meaningful information you can put online. Organize your information in a logical format. For example, your main entry page may consist of an introduction to your department. Other pages that could link off of this page might be Course Listings, General Information, Frequently Asked Questions, Faculty and Staff, Resources and Links, etc.

    Note: All administrative Web page text should be proofread to ensure compliance with TMCC publication standards by PIO prior to online publication. Please send all final content text files to PIO. Reviewed content will then be forwarded to the TMCC webmaster.
  4. Page(s) linked into the official TMCC Web site. Your page(s) will be linked from appropriate areas including the Site Index and search engine.

Student organization Web pages should follow the process listed above unless the organization wishes to build the site themselves. If choosing the later option, please contact Web Services for further instructions.


Instructional Web Pages

An instructional page is used for classroom-related purposes. Examples of instructional pages are instructor homepages, online syllabi, homework assignments, etc. Each instructor is responsible for their own Web site. Instructional pages are not reviewed by the TMCC webmaster or PIO.

Posting an instructional Web page involves the following steps.

  1. Decide how you want to build your Web pages. Please read the guidelines for faculty Web page authors first. You have many choices to help you build your classroom homepage. You can build it yourself using any HTML editor such as Dreamweaver, or you may want to try building your site with SiteCenter. SiteCenter is an online Web site builder that allows faculty to build a template-driven Web site from scratch or edit their existing site using only a Web browser (Internet Explorer and FireFox on PC, or FireFox on Mac). Additional assistance for custom built sites is also available on a limited basis. Whatever you decide, please be sure you understand how to update the content of your site to keep it fresh each semester. See also: Available Instructional Web Site Templates
  2. Set up a Web account on an official TMCC Web server.

    Full-time Instructors — All full-time instructional and classroom related Web pages are placed on the "classes" Web server, hosted at TMCC. To set up your account, you will need to fill out a one time Web account application request. Please read through the form and submit it. Your account will be processed, and you will be contacted when it's ready. You will be given FTP access to your folder on the server so that you will be able to upload pages from home or on campus.

    Part-time Instructors — TMCC does not currently host Web pages of part-time faculty in-house on its own servers. However, we are pleased to offer links from the System Computing Services (SCS) Web server. Follow the instructions listed under the SCS Internet/E-mail Accounts page, Faculty and Staff section to set up a free Web account at SCS. Once you have established an instructional Web page on the Internet, please don't forget to request to be linked.

    Read more about part-time faculty Web accounts!
  3. Build and upload your Web pages to the Web. Since pages on the classes server are not reviewed by the TMCC webmaster, please make sure to check for broken links and proper spelling and grammar prior to uploading your pages.
  4. Get your Web pages linked from www.tmcc.edu. Fill out the Link My Web Page form to get your site linked from TMCC. You will then be listed on the faculty Web page directory as well as being listed on the classes your teach on the class schedule.

    Once your pages are uploaded, you may check them via a Web browser at any time and promote your URI to your students. It will be your responsibility to maintain the timeliness of the content.

If you have any questions or require additional assistance, please contact Web Services.

Student Web Pages

As a TMCC student, you have access to a free TMCC e-mail account and 20 megabytes of Web server space to publish Web pages. Your Web account uses the same username and password as your e-mail account. So if you haven't done so already, activate your TMCC e-mail account now.

Once your e-mail account is activated, review instructions on how to upload/publish files to your Web space account.