Rules and Regulations
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Page URL
The URL (or internet address) for a web page is:
http://www.student.brynmawr.edu/students/username (for personal pages) or http://www.student.brynmawr.edu/orgs/organization
(for organizations)
The www.student portion of the server's address is used to provide easier, more
homogeneous access to the servernt web server. However, note that the student
web server can also be accessed by replacing www.student with bartik. For example,
this main page is accessible through either of the following addresses:
-http://www.student.brynmawr.edu
-http://bartik.brynmawr.edu
Obtaining An Account
A valid Bryn Mawr College (or Haverford College, for Bi-Co organizations) student
ID is required to receive a web page account. To request an account, fill out
the Account Request Form. Account requests will be processed within two business
days. In order to fill out an Account
Request Form go to the following page
http://ads.brynmawr.edu/BMC/AcctReq/AcctReq.taf?_function=page1
Bartik accounts are accessible via FTP (or Fetch, on Macs) or through a
direct telnet session from an on-campus IP/machine. Bartik webmasters are
not responsible for teaching users UNIX (the operating system used when telneting
into Bartik or Ada directly), text editors, or FTP and Fetch.
For directions on how to use FTP or Fetch, please reference the online documentation
at the Computing Services Home Page.
Creating a Home Page
A link to your home page will be added to Bartik's list of posted pages upon
the creation of your account. To guarantee that your page will be accessible,
however, you will need to do the following:
Necessary Steps and Information
To guarantee that a user accessing your page will get the appropriate home
page when accessing your address, name the main file of your home page index.html.
(Old Users: The previous standard, default.html, will still work, but index.html
has precedence, and the use of the old default.html should be phased out by
changing it to index.html.)When a user tries to access your page (in the form
of http://www.student.brynmawr.edu/~username), your index.html file is automatically
displayed, and should therefore be your main page, containing links to other
pages/files you may have.
All pages must have the extension .html: .htm will work as well for index.htm
and default.htm, but should otherwise have the four-letter html extension.
Do not use either the forward slash (/) or space character in the names of
your files, because they will be inaccessible. For example, neither sister/pictures.html
nor sister pics.html are legitimate filenames.
Writing The Page
Any
page will have to be started from scratch: there is no provided template
for
making
a
web
page.
You
can either
write
the
code
directly
or use an
HTML editor (such as Dreamweaver which can be found on the mulitmedia computers
in Guild). Although there are no official HTML classes available, informal
classes may occasionally be offered by gracious volunteers.
HTML Sites
Tthere are sites on the net teaching
HTML which can be found using various search engines like Google,Yahoo,
Alta Vista, Magellan, or Excite, among others. One popular tutorial
is "A
Beginner's Guide to HTML", found at http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html
Any page will have to be started from scratch: there is no provided template
for making a web page. You can either write the code directly or use
an HTML editor (such as Dreamweaver). Although there are no official
HTML classes
available, informal classes may occasionally be offered by gracious volunteers.
Student can also ask a mulitmedia op for assistance with any program in
the multimedia lab.
Posting a Page
When users connect to their accounts (using FTP or telnet), they should be in
their home directory:/usr/home/students/username
Any files placed into the home directory are stored on Bartik, but are not viewable
on the Internet. Any files that you wish to be accessible via the Internet should
then be placed into the public_html directory (folder) within the home directory
(Ex: /usr/home/students/jsmith/public_html). If you have access to an organization
page, you will also see a directory with the name of that organization. This
directory will be accessible via the web.
Bartik Policy
All students and organizations with web pages are assumed to have read the
following policy regulations. By submitting an account request, the student
is acknowledging that they have read and agree to abide by the rules set forth
below. Ignorance of the following guidelines is not an excuse for lack of compliance.
The official Bryn Mawr College logo (a white circle containing the words "Bryn Mawr College" and "Dilexi Veritatem" with three owls on a yellow shield may not be used on any student or student organization's web page.
The content of all web pages must be consistent with current Bryn Mawr College policy, as well as all federal and state laws. (For example, you are legally liable for images posted which have not been created by you and are neither attributed to the author nor posted with his or her permission.) Bryn Mawr respects the right of freedom of expression, and will not censor individual home pages. However, content that violates BMC regulations, is prohibited by state or federal law, or is otherwise deemed inappropriate is not permitted and will result in the immediate removal of all offending files from the web server. Bryn Mawr College reserves the right to remove any web page in part or in full if violations to this policy are found, or if the page presents a liability to the efficient operation of the Bryn Mawr College student web server or BMC system resources. The student or organization may revise the offending files if they wish them to be reposted.
You alone are responsible for your web page, including all maintenance. We are not responsible for keeping your links current, correcting grammatical errors, changing filenames, permissions, or altering any portion of your web page in any manner.
Files created or modified on Bartik are backed up on a nightly basis. The backup tapes will be rotated every three months; files lost within the last three months can be retrieved upon request (email bartik@brynmawr.edu. Please see the related section in "Things to Think About." for more information on this topic.
Personal pages can neither contain commercial materials nor be used for personal or financial gain.
Web page accounts are only provided to currently enrolled students and valid Bryn Mawr or Bi-college student organizations (including students in the Junior Year Abroad program). Graduates (alumnae) of Bryn Mawr College, students who have withdrawn, and all others currently not enrolled at Bryn Mawr College will have their personal pages removed one month after the date of graduation or termination from the college. Accounts belonging to students enrolled in study abroad programs will NOT be closed.
Bi-college student organizations are permitted to post web pages on Bryn Mawr's student web server, provided that their page is not also posted on Haverford's server; in all other respects, Bi-Co and Bryn Mawr organizations are treated identically.
Because of resource constraints, the space allotted to each student or student organization is limited to 5 MB in the public_html directory (files in this directory being viewable on the net) and 1 MB of additional storage in the the account's home directory. Because personal home pages are not directly related to the College, it is unlikely any account would require additional space; such space will only be granted under very special circumstances.
It is advisable to list your name and some way for visitors to your site to
contact you on your personal homepage. However, for your own safety, be cautious
about including too much personal information on your webpage. Organizational
homepages must list the full name of the individual responsible for the page.
Things to Think About
Your web page will reflect on both you and Bryn Mawr College. Whatever is placed on the World Wide Web is accessible to anyone with Internet access. Although Bryn Mawr College is not responsible for any information on these pages, others accessing your page will probably associate it with Bryn Mawr College.
Be creative! Your web page might be viewed by anyone from strangers to friends, family, or future employers, and will be an expression of both you and your achievements.
Be cautious with any personal information you place on the pages. Providing your email address is probably best for soliciting feedback; providing a mailing address or telephone number might be unwise.
Respect the privacy of others. Information regarding others on your web page should only be published with the individual's consent. Be careful with what you put on your web page, and be especially careful of copyright laws.
Be respectful of those attempting to utilize and enjoy your web pages: keep your links current.
Since personal pages are unofficial, (i.e., not official college business) they are the student's responsibility. Those who wish to create a personal web page should be prepared to experiment and utilize internet documentation or other resources for problem solving, learning HTML or other languages, and so on.
It is advisable to keep an extra copy of your web page somewhere other than
on the server, in case the original is accidentally deleted. Personal backups
are always a good idea. However, in case of deletion, a user may email bartik@brynmawr.edu
to request that the file be retrieved. Please include the filename, your account name and the date you last modified the file. As
is written in the policy, tape backups of created or modified files are made
nightly. It is strongly recommended that you request that your file be retrieved
as soon as you realize that it has been deleted, since tapes are periodically
rotated.
Bartik's Namesake
Bryn Mawr's student web server was named after Jean Jennings Bartik, one of the
first female programmers. Chosen along with five other young female 'computers'
(the term applied to people calculating data), she worked on the ENIAC, also
known as the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer.
The ENIAC, unveiled on February 14, 1946, was a huge steel monster built in an
engineering building at UPenn which measured 100 feet long, 10 feet high, and
contained 17,480 vacuum tubes. Created by a physicist, John Mauchly, and a grad
student, Presper Eckert, it was the first electronic computer, created to calculate
trajectories, a task normally assigned to female computers, who would spend 30
to 40 hours performing the calculations by hand.
The programmers had neither an
operating system nor a programming language to work with. "The Eniac was a son of a b---- to program." said
Ms. Bartik. Finally permitted to work on the machine after having been refused
as security risks, only having learned the machine by wiring diagrams they
had been given, they set about learning how to program the machine. Handed
instructions, they set about setting the dozens of dials and plugging in the
appropriate cables for each problem. The test problem handed to Jean Bartik
and Betty Holberton to program at the unveiling on February 14th involved the
trajectory of a 155-millimeter shell. The ENIAC worked perfectly, and calculated
the trajectory in less time than it would take the bullet to land. Had it not
been for the female programmers implementing the ideas of the engineers, we
would not be at the level of computing we enjoy today.