James Henson

PLACE YOUR CONTENT HERE...
...or redesign your page however you would like. The University Policy regarding individual's web pages does not require the use of our template system, consistent look or other features. It does require you to identify the University at the top of the page (i.e. "Edinboro University of Pa"), and that you not include text or graphics which manipulate University logos (for example- a spinning, rainbow-hued SCOTSMAN logo is prohibited!). Beyond that, these pages are open to your creativity as long as they do not contain or promote illegal activities or content or otherwise violate applicable policies.

While we discourage too much 'bling' in our offical web publication, if you are looking to spice up your page and learn about HTML, DHTML, and Javascript, let us recommend a few sites:

HOW TO UPDATE...
To update your pages, please refer to the Updating Personal Web Pages instructions.

A NOTE REGARDING CASCADING STYLE SHEETS:
When using this page intact, we have several styles defined (including anchors- link/visited/active/hover), Table Header tags (<TH>) will be a black background with bold, white text, and a few other items which may change over time. If you encounter a style that we have defined and you want it to be different, simply define the style AFTER the include statement in the <HEAD> section. Where a style is defined twice, the last definition will take precidence.

A NOTE REGARDING ACTIVE SERVER PAGES (.ASP FILES)
Active Server Pages allow us to include the header and stylesheets from a common source, so that changes we make to the gradient header, for example, affect all of our pages immediately. So if we were to add features to the Keyword Search that modified the code on each page, by using this .ASP file, your pages would be up to date also!

.ASP pages must be viewed through the server for the 'special code' to be interpreted. Otherwise, the commands are ignored. Beyond that, however, an .ASP page is just like an .HTM or .HTML page. In fact, if you take an HTM/HTML page and rename it to be an .ASP page, it will display exactly the same.

This file, for example, if renamed to be .HTML, would not contain the header or styles defined by the INCLUDE files, nor would the variables defined as Username or Fullname be defined (so your name would not show up in the title or on the page). But anything else on the page should appear as you'd expect.

So if you want to develop your content as a regular HTML page, you certainly can do that. Simply paste the HTML code from between (but not including) the <BODY> and </BODY> tags between the <DIV> and </DIV> tags here, and unless you're doing something fancy it should work just fine.

.ASP pages can do much more than just include other files. You can utilize Visual Basic Script for CGI-type applications. A quick Google search on 'ASP' or 'Active Server Pages' will provide you with plenty of information.

A NOTE REGARDING 'DEFAULT' PAGES
If you point your browser to your directory only-- http://users.edinboro.edu/jhenson/, the system will search for one of these files, in this order:
  1. index.html
  2. index.htm
  3. home.asp
  4. home.html
  5. home.htm
  6. index.asp

Whichever it finds first, it will display as the default page. So if you want to have your default page be home.htm, make sure you don't have a home.html, index.htm, index.html, etc. (since those come before home.htm in the list).

A NOTE REGARDING CGI SCRIPTS
CGI, or Common Gateway Interface, is how most forms interpret the information you submit, or act on certain choices you make on a site. For example, a "Shopping Cart" is usually handled by some kind of CGI program.

Many languages are used to develop CGIs, and because CGIs run directly on the the server itself (whereas Javascript runs on the machine viewing the webpage), CGI programs are considerably more complex to write than a simple webpage, and raise security concerns as well.

The University does not permit CGI development in your personal accounts (beyond what you can do with .ASP and Visual Basic). However, if you are interested in creating an online form which sends the results to you via e-mail, we have an existing CGI which you are welcome to use-- Autoform. For more information, consider the following links:

ENJOY!

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