I.  Request an SMC Web account by completing and submitting the Student Personalweb Homepage Application form.  You will receive a confirmation at your SMC email account.  Each team can share one, but each team member may also request his/her own account and copy (mirror) the WQ created by the team.  If you share the site, please be sure to exchange log-in information (see caution note at the bottom).

II.  Checking to see if your SMC Web account has been established

Check your SMC email account

• On-campus users: Use Outlook to access your email account and log in.

• Off-campus users:

1. Go to http://smcmail.smcvt.edu.

2. In the log-in window, please put mikenet/yourusername (yourusername is generally the first initial of your first name plus your last name, without spaces)

(It’s the username that you used to log into eCollege the first time and it is in the email I sent you and asked you to save it in a safe spot!).  Then click Connect. (Check Accessing your E-mail Off-Campus for additional information.)

3. Next, a new dialog box will prompt you to authenticate yourself.  Again, put

Username:    mikenet/yourusername
Password:    for first-time log-on, no spaces: Capital initial of your first name small initial of your last name your SMC ID number !    (Don't forget the exclamation mark at the end.)
      Example for John Smith:    Js123456!  (For further instructions, please see Accepted Students and MIKENET Passwords.)

4. Check the Web

• Open Internet Explorer and type in the address window http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/yourusername.  If you get a page that says “This is your home page” or something like that, your account has been created and you have a Web page to start editing.

HELP: Please check the SMC IT Web Site for troubleshooting and especially MIKENET Passwords for the ground rules on changing passwords for email or web sites.  

 There are 2 ways to enter – Option 1 is strongly recommended for the first time you enter the Web site!!!

Option 1:

1. Do Step 4 above. 
2. Click File > Edit with Microsoft FrontPage.  A dialog box opens up requesting authentication from you.  Please type in the information but please notice the BACKSLASH to enter your Web account!

mikenet\yourusername

3. Start editing in Normal mode (= tab at bottom of page). 
4. Please make sure you have the folder list open to the right of “Views”.  If not, please click VIEW > FOLDER LIST.
5. ALWAYS look first to make sure your new Web page is listed at the top of the folder list – http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/yourusername.  When you see this URL, you know that you are working on your Web site and are authoring “live”, i.e. directly on the server.  When you click Save, the changes will take effect immediately on the Web.
6. You should see 2 folders underneath your main folder at the top— _private and images.  Please DO NOT touch anything in the _private folder.  It contains authentication information.
7. VERY IMPORTANT: You will also see a file called default.htm.  DO NOT, under any circumstances, change the name of that file!!!!  It is your home page and will immediately take the viewer to your home page when they enter the URL for your site.  If you change the name default to something else, your web site will NOT work!!!!  (The only allowable exception to that is naming it index.htm, which will also work.)

Option 2:  You can use this option to enter your Web site AFTER you have already logged into it before.

1. Start FrontPage. 

2. Click File > Open Web.  Use the drop-down arrow to locate My Network Places.

3. At the bottom of the dialog box, type the address for your Web site: http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/yourusername.Click Open.

4. In the authentication dialog box, please follow the steps in Option 1, b – g.

IV. Saving vs. publishing  (see also Guidelines for Publishing and Saving--Freqently Asked Questions)

• Using Save As
  SAVE, SAVE, SAVE -- save your work often as web pages may shut down, your computer may freeze, or the electricity may go off.  :-).  However, be aware that there is a difference between "saving" and "publishing" in FrontPage.  When you click File>Save As, check very carefully for the directory where your web page/site is being saved.  If it goes to the c: or d: drive, you are saving locally or offline.  Your work will not appear on the Web.  If you wish to work offline, publish to your hard drive or flash drive (CD is more difficult) and create a folder called "WebQuest" with a sub-folder for each page of your WQ.

• Using Publish
  In order to have your work appear on the Web, you need to select File>Publish Web and enter the destination (location of your Web site at Saint Michael's College) in the window in order to upload the information to the server.  If you entered the URL before and click on the drop-down arrow, the destination of your Web should appear.  If not, click Browse > My Network Places and either click on the Web site in the window or type in the URL next to Web name.  You will see a message that the pages are being published.

V.  A few words of caution:

Overwriting the partner's saves.

If you share the Web site with a team partner who has your log-in information, please be careful when you work live on the server (http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/yourusername).  If both of you are working on the same page and save your work, you may overwrite changes that your partner is in the process of making.  It is therefore recommended to send a quick email or Yahoo message to your partners alerting them to the fact that you are working on the server. 

Solution: One person (e.g. account owner) makes the revisions on the server.  The others work offline, make revisions and then send the file to the account owner for uploading to the server.
To work offline: Copy the file you want to edit: Either right-click the file inside FP or go to the Web, locate the file, and click SAVE AS.  The file will be saved as an html document in the location you specify.  You can then edit the file with FP. 

HELP
Please remember to let me know if you’re encountering problems.  Rather than getting frustrated, please call me right away!  You have all of the ways to get in touch with me, and I’d rather have you contact me than get frustrated!!!!  Please follow this advice. If you do call me, make sure that the phone is near your computer so that I can walk you through if necessary.

For technical problems, e.g. password, you may also call the Helpdesk at Saint Michael's College at 802-654-2020.

Additional links to FP tutorials in PPT:

1. Maryanne Burgos' PPT tutorial FrontPage Basics -- http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~burgosm/Impatica/FrontPage-2003.html (ignore pages 39-45, as they refer to information specific to the university server at SUNY Buffalo.
2. Maryanne Burgos' PPT tutorial FrontPage Tables -- http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~burgosm/Impatica/FrontPage-Tables.html