Official Web Sites

Academic and administrative departments, student organizations and other approved entities may publish web pages on www.kzoo.edu and campus.kzoo.edu

Standards for All Official Pages
A. Providers and other content authors sign the general computing user agreement, signifying their agreement to the Kalamazoo College guidelines and policies.

B. Official Pages of the Kalamazoo College Web Site shall conform to the design standards approved by the Web Executive Committee. Exceptions must be approved by the Web Executive Committee.

C. Each Official Page must include the name Kalamazoo College in its header.

D. Each Official Page must include a title that accurately and concisely reflects the page's contents.

E. Each Official Page must include appropriate meta tags including "description" and "keywords" tags.

F. Each Official Page must include a link back to the Kalamazoo College home page.

G. Each Official Page must include the email address, as a “mail to” link, of the Information Provider who maintains the accuracy and currency of the information.

H. Each Official Page must include the date of last revision.

I. Each Official Page must be grammatically correct, free of spelling errors, free of broken links to other pages and sites, and factually accurate to the best knowledge of the Information Provider.

J. Each Official Page is subject to review by the Web Executive Committee. In some circumstances, the Web Executive Committee may request changes in the design of an official page to better meet the needs of the College. Information Providers are expected to make such changes in a timely manner.

Web Authoring Software
Kalamazoo College does not require that a certain tool be used to create and maintain Web pages. We do make Dreamweaver software available for faculty, staff and computer labs and provide limited support for this application. Check with the Associate Director of Web Services with questions or to see if spare licenses are available.

Publishing Official Web Pages
No matter how you create your web pages, they must be uploaded to the web server before anyone can view them online. FTP (file transfer protocol) software is used to do this. FTP is built in to Dreamweaver. WS_FTP LE is also provided for all faculty, staff and lab PCs, Fetch for Macs.

Connect via FTP or Dreamweaver to wwwftp.kzoo.edu, using the your network (email) account name and password. Change the remote directory to the relevent path for storing your web files. For example, if you are publishing to http://www.kzoo.edu/anysite/ , change your remote directory to anysite/.

The site's home page should be saved as index.html (or other valid extension) and should be stored in the main folder. Valid file extensions are htm, html, shtml, php and asp. If named index, the home page address is http://www.kzoo.edu/anysite/ (where anysite stands for your folder name)

The site's other pages can be browsed at http://www.kzoo.edu/site/myfile.htm where myfile.htm is replaced by the actual name of your file.

Note: URLs are not case-sensitive on our new web server.

Connection Settings
Quick Reference

FTP host: wwwftp.kzoo.edu
[wwwcampus.kzoo.edu for campus intranet or wwwknet.kzoo.edu for faculty/staff intranet]

Login:
your network ID and password

Change Directory to:
your folder (the part of the address that comes after kzoo.edu, for example www.kzoo.edu/foldername/)

Alternatively, you can connect using the WebDAV protocol (Windows Web Folders or Mac Go/Connect to Server) to https://wwwftp.kzoo.edu