HOW TO MAKE A HOME PAGE ON THE VAX

INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO MAKE A RESUME HOME PAGE

Note that this assignment looks daunting, but it really is not. Get a hard copy of the following instructions, take them to the dinner table with you, and read them carefully. Many of the things you read will make no sense at all, the first time. Put the sheet away, and think about it, then bring it back out tomorrow, and read it again carefully. It will make more sense the second time around. Ask me any questions you may have in class, THEN go try it out. The information I have listed in the sample resume are suggestions only. You may cut out anything that you do not want included - for example if your GPA is rather low, then cut it out. If you have something special you have done, add it.

What YOU are actually doing here is to put an HTML version of your resume on your University computer account, which only you have access to (I can't do it for you.) Later, if you like, what I will actually do is to add a "Link" from http://civilgrads.tamu.edu with your name to your resume in your account. Thus, when an employer goes to Civilgrads and sees your name, they click on it and it transfers them to your account, where your account serves up your resume to them. That way you have complete control over what your resume says without me having to mess with it. If you modify or add to your resume next week, the next time someone clicks on your name they get the new version. When you graduate, the University deletes your account. Shortly after graduation I go in and check all the links, and when I find yours is dead, I know you are employed, and I remove your name from Civilgrads.

The purpose of this exercise is not so much to get your resume on the web, but to make sure that when you go to work you will be able to put your company's resume on the web, or their corporate brochure, or a list of their current jobs. It won't necessarily be professional, but it will be a web presence and that is critical. The only difference is that rather than using your university account, you will look in the phone book and rent web space on a commercial ISP (Independent Service Provider) for about $20.00 a month, and upload it there.

Please note that many of you may already have a job waiting for you, and may not want to put your resume on the web. That is fine. Just make it up so I will know you can do it, and don't ask me to link it to Civilgrads. Then it will not display to anyone on the web, except to me. Of utmost importance: Put your date of graduation on your resume. No one will ever call you if they don't see this.

I) HOW TO SET UP WEB ACCESS FOR YOUR ACCOUNT:

Log into https://oalinfo.tamu.edu/account2 using your NETID and your password.
NOTE POSSIBLE PROBLEM FIXES: if you go to this address and it will not let you set up your web account because of a "bad password", you must do the following:
- Log in to your NEO account, using your NET ID and password.
- Reset your password to the same thing - i.e. tell him you want a new password, but then just reset it to your old password.
- Log off of NEO.
- Log into https://oalinfo.tamu.edu/account2 and continue below.
- If that doesn't work you will have to go to one of the open-access labs and get help getting into your account.

Click on the SETUP MY WEB PAGE button. This will set up a public subdirectory and set the necessary directory permissions to give everyone read-access only to the files in your "public" subdirectory only.
The name of that subdirectory will turn out to be: PUBLIC_HTML (you have no choice in the matter.)
Note that your resume and your photos and any other files you wish to display must be placed in this subdirectory to be seen by the outside world. You need not worry about anyone but me seeing it, since no one else will even know it is out there, and could care less, unless you tell me to link it to htttp://civilgrads.tamu.edu or unless you announce it to Google or similar search engines.
Name your resume file index.html.
After up-loading your files (see step IV, below) you can see your files using the URL address: http://people.tamu.edu/~yournetid (should read something like http://people.tamu.edu/~lowery)

NOTE POSSIBLE PROBLEM FIXES: When using WIN SCP, some people are getting a "permission denied" error when you try to upload your files. BE SURE TO CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING PROTOCOL WHEN YOU FIRST SIGN ON: SCP. Also, try again the following:
- Log in to your NEO account, using your NET ID and password.
- Reset your password to the same thing - i.e. tell him you want a new password, but then just reset it to your old password.
- Log off of NEO.
- Log into https://oalinfo.tamu.edu/account2 and continue below.
NOTE MORE POSSIBLE PROBLEM FIXES: Click here.

II) THE FOLLOWING SHOWS THE FILE YOU WILL BUILD AND PUT ON YOUR WEB SITE. EDIT IT TO FIT YOUR SITUATION

Note: The following instructions (in italics) have been used for quite some time. They predate such tools as Frontpage and the use of Word to make web pages. You are welcome to go ahead and follow them, as generations before you have done. However, I must admit that working with html base code is becoming less and less necessary. Today you can simply make up your resume in Word and tell it to "Save As A Web Page, or Save as HTML." Just that simple. And if you wish to go that way, it is fine with me. The later instructions on how to move the document to your TAMU computer account (steps IV, V, VI, VII) remain unchanged.

NOTE HOWEVER! If you use Wordpad, or any other word processor to edit the following file, and save the file in RTF (Rich Text Format) you are really in trouble. It is almost impossible to get the file straightened out again. Make SURE you save the file as an ASCII or .txt file.

Specific instructions for editing the following file are listed below in section IV. Use an ASCII word processor like EditPad or Write or Notepad (not MS Word or Word Perfect or Wordpad, unless you know how to force them to save your file using only ASCII text.) Change everything on the following lines to fit your particular resume information. Please note that many word processors will tell you that they are going to save your file in ASCII, but they really don't. They save their files with formatting characters, which the web does not understand. To make sure you are going to get a file saved in ASCII, first use your word processor to read the file, unedited, and then save it back on to your disk. ALWAYS save a copy of the file before you spend a lot of time editing it. Then tell Internet Explorer or Netscape to go look at that file on your disk and see what it looks like (click on "File", "Open" and then browse to your file). If the editor has added formatting characters, or has otherwise messed up the file, it will look goofy. If it has strange fractions in the document, or otherwise looks messed up, use a different editor.

The next several lines are the actual lines to be placed on your web site, except for the necessary modifications to personalize it to you. Be sure to remove all of the "[" and "]" characters that you find in the file. There are there for emphasis only. If you will cut and paste everything between the "Start of file" and "End of file" into an ASCII word processor (EditPad or Notepad or Write), and then save the file as "index.html", you will have a good template of the sample resume without having to re-type it.




<html>

<head>
<title>[Your name]</title>
</head>

<body>
<center>
<h1>[Your Name]</h1>
<h3>[Address]<br>
[City, State, Zip]<br>
[Telephone Number]<br>
E-mail to: <A HREF = "mailto:[Put_your_e-mail_address_here@people.tamu.edu]">
[Put_your_e-mail_address_here_again@people.tamu.edu]</A></h3></center>

<P>Expected date of graduation: [December of 1997]

<H3>OBJECTIVE:</H3>
[A full-time, entry-level engineering position with an emphasis on structural design. Just type anything you want here. I would like a job in the Austin area where I hope to continue my education in the evenings on a part-time basis. However, I will consider employment anywhere in the Southwest United States. I will graduate on 12/25/96 and will be available for employment on or after 1/5/97]<BR>

<HR>
<H3>EDUCATION / SKILLS:</H3>

<H4><A HREF="http://www.tamu.edu/">Texas A&M University,</A> College Station, TX</H4>
<H4><A HREF="http://www.civil.tamu.edu/">Department of Civil Engineering</A></H4>

[BS in Civil Engineering, 1995. Overall GPA 4.00, GPA in Major 4.00.]

<H4>Related Course Work:</H4>
<UL>
<LI>[Statics and Strength of Materials]
<LI>[Thermodynamics]
<LI>[Engineering Mechanics]
<LI>[Dynamics]
<LI>[Fluid Mechanics]
<LI>[Structural Design and Analysis]
<LI>[Materials]
<LI>[Design Optimization]
<LI>[Structural Analysis]
<LI>[Engineering Ethics]
<LI>[Add any other courses you like]
</UL>

<H4>Computer Skills:</H4>
<UL>
<LI>[AutoCAD Release 13 & AutoCAD Designer]
<LI>[FORTRAN, C Language]
<LI>[MATLAB]
<LI>[MathCAD]
<LI>[3D Studio]
<LI>[Word Perfect]
<LI>[Microsoft Word]
<LI>[Excel]
<LI>[UNIX]
<LI>[DOS]
<LI>[Windows 95, 3.1]
<LI>[Add any other skills you like]
</UL>

<H4>[Passed Fundamentals of Engineering Examination in September 1994]</H4>

<HR>
<H3>EXPERIENCE:</H3>

<H4>[Who you worked for - Dates]</H4>
[You can type several lines here. No Break marks <BR> are needed, except at the end of the paragraph. Typical: Worked for Brown & Root. Project was to design a concrete warehouse. The project involved all stages of the design/construct process, from design, to construction, to checkout.]<br>

<H4>[Dames & Moore - August 1992 to September 1993]</H4>
[Responsible for soils testing in the Austin, Texas area. In charge of a 7 man field team] <br>

<H4>[Who you worked for - Dates]</H4>
[Your Title]<br>
[stuff, stuff, stuff]<br>
[Notice the break mark at the end of these lines. They cause the typing to drop down to the next line.]<br>
[Your Duties: Provided CAD drawings of a shock tube to be used for an experiment studying the effects of water explosions.]<br>

<H4>[Center for Risk Studies and Safety, July 1, 1993 - September 1, 1994]</H4>
[Department of Civil Engineering]<br>
[Assistant to Chief Engineer]<br>
[Texas A&M University]<br>
[High Pressure Pump Operator]<br>
[Duties: Responsible for proper use and maintenance of whatever.]

<H4>Texas Transportation Institute, July 1, 1992 - September 1, 1993</H4>
[Programmer]<BR>
[Worked closely with state engineers]<BR>
[ Kept sales records]<BR>
[Wrote programs to install software on multiple platforms]<BR>

<HR>

<H3> CAREER INTERESTS:</H3>
<UL>
<LI>[These are List Items in an unnumbered bulleted list]
<LI>[Structural Design <--- Stick your interests in here]
<LI>[Structural Design]
<LI>[Structural Design <--- Add any more lines you need]
<LI>[Structural Design]
<LI>[Structural Design]
<LI>[Structural Design <--- Delete any lines you don't need]
</UL>

<HR>
<H3> ACTIVITIES / INTERESTS:</H3>
<UL>
<LI>[Member of Chi Epsilon Civil Engineering Honor Society]
<LI>[Member of American Society of Civil Engineers]
<LI>[Music: Singing, Classical Piano]
<LI>[Other interests: Computers, fencing, racquetball, table tennis]
<LI>[President: Tau Beta Pi, TAMU Chapter]
</UL>

<HR>
<H3>REFERENCES:</H3>

<A HREF = "http://lowery.tamu.edu">Dr. Lee L. Lowery, Jr., P.E., PhD</A><BR>
Professor/Research Engineer <BR>
Department of Civil Engineering <BR>
Texas A&M University <BR>
College Station, TX 77843-3136 <BR>
409-845-4395 <BR>
e-mail to: <A HREF="mailto:lowery@tamu.edu"> lowery@tamu.edu </A> <BR>
<BR>

[Dr. John NobodyIknow <-- An example of an unlinked reference.] <BR>
[Stress Dynamics, Inc. <-- Replace him with someone you know. ] <BR>
[707 Texas Ave. <-- I would NOT say "Reference upon request! ] <BR>
[College Station, TX 77840 <-- If he wants to hire you, he wants to] <BR>
[409-696-0533 <-- contact your references NOW! ] <BR>

</BODY>
</html>




III) DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO EDIT YOUR FILE:

1) The first line in the file starts out looking like:

<title>[Your name]</title>

and you should change it to:

<title>John Doe or whatever your name is</title>

NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE!!!!! REMOVE THE BRACKETS: [ ]. Leave only the hypertext markers (the things in the < >.) These < > markers are used by the computer to determine how you want the text formatted on the screen. For example, <title> starts the title of the document and </title> ends the title. <H1> or <h1> gives the enclosed text a header size of 1, which is as big as a header gets, and </h1> stops the header. Headers go as small as <H6>.

Thus:

<h1>John Dooge</h1>

means, put John Dooge on the screen as a header of size 1. The </h1> turns the header command off. Size 1 is the biggest header available, size 6 is as small as it gets.

2) Replace <h1>[Your Name]</h1>
with <h1>John Doe or whatever your name is.</h1>

3) Replace every set of brackets AND the included text with the appropriate information regarding your situation.

4) Leave everything else alone, especially the hypertext <markers>. These should not be touched.

5) You may add to or delete lines from the document, if you wish. You must use only the same opening and closing <markers> as shown.

Thus, if you find that you changed:

<H4>[Who you worked for - Dates]</H4>
[Corporate Name]<br>
[Your Title]<br>
[stuff, stuff, stuff]<br>
[Notice the break mark at the end of these lines which moves the following text to the next line.]<br>
[Your Duties: Provided CAD drawings of a shock tube
to be used in an experiment studying the effects of water explosions.]<br>

to:

<H4>Texas A&M University, Jan. 25, 1997 to Aug. 17, 1997</H4>
Department of Civil Engineering<br>
Associate Research Engineer<br>
Nothing to say here, so delete the line.<br>
Nothing to say here, so delete the line.<br>
Worked on the design of the new CE Building.<br>

and you don't want those two "nothing to say here" comments, you simply delete the lines to get:

<H4>Texas A&M, Jan. 25, 1994 to Aug. 17, 1994</H4>
Department of Civil Engineering<br>
Associate Research Engineer<br>
Worked on the design of the new CE Building.<br>

Or perhaps you have more to say than the space provided. Simply add more lines. Thus you can change the above to:

<H4>Texas A&M, Jan. 25, 1994 to Aug. 17, 1994]</H4>
Department of Civil Engineering<br>
Associate Research Engineer<br>
got a lot to say<br>
need more room<br>
need more room<br> <-- End each added line with a break <br>.
need more room<BR> <-- The case of the <br> marker doesn't matter.
need more room<br> <-- <br> or <BR> is acceptable.
need more room<bR>
Worked on the design of the new CE Building.<br>

You may add additional blocks of information as you wish. Merely start each block of information with a new <H4> header and close it with the closing header mark </H4>, or <H2> header </H2>, or whatever header size you wish. Header sizes range from 1 to 6. You should be consistent with your header sizes.

Now perhaps you have more or fewer items to add to an UNNUMBERED LIST, or BULLET LIST. For example, the information in the BULLET list might read:

<H4>Related Course Work:</H4>        <-- the <H4> is the header size.
<UL> <-- means "an un-numbered list" follows.
<LI>Statics and Strength of Materials     <-- The first list item.
<LI>Thermodynamics                            <-- The second list item.
<LI>Engineering Mechanics                    <-- The <LI> means list item.
<LI>Dynamics
<LI>Fluid Mechanics
<LI>Structural Design and Analysis
<LI>Materials
<LI>Design Optimization
<LI>Structural Analysis
<LI>Engineering Ethics                           <-- the last list item.
</UL>                                                    <-- denotes the end of the unnumbered bulleted list.

You can add or delete any lines, and change the information to suit your needs:

<H4>Course Work Related to My Field of Study:</H4>
<UL>
<LI>Concrete Design <-- modified lines.
<LI>Thermodynamics
<LI>Engineering Mechanics
<LI>Dynamics
<LI>Fluid Mechanics
<LI>Fluid Mechanics <-- added lines.
<LI>Fluid Mechanics
<LI>Fluid Mechanics
<LI>Fluid Mechanics
<LI>Structural Design and Analysis
<LI>Materials
<LI>Design Optimization
<LI>Structural Analysis
<LI>Engineering Ethics
</UL>

Simply be careful to add the <LI> marker before any new lines, and keep the <UL> and </UL> markers at the top and bottom of the list.

You may add as many new additional lists as you wish, as long as they follow the format above. Numbered lists use the same format as bullet lists above, but they use the markers <OL> and </OL> for "ordered" list.

6) A typical reference, fully linked to your reference's home page and e-mail address from above would look like this:

<A HREF = "http://lowery.tamu.edu"> Dr. Lee L. Lowery, Jr., P.E., PhD</A><BR>
Department of Civil Engineering<BR>
Texas A&M University<BR>
College Station, TX 77843-3136<BR>
409-845-4395<BR>
e-mail to: <A HREF="mailto:lowery@tamu.edu"> lowery@tamu.edu </A><BR>

This would let the user click to see my home page, and send me e-mail to ask about you by simply clicking on the embedded hyper-links.

If you know me and would like, you may use me as a reference. I would gladly recommend anyone who has the skills to do this assignment. My mailing and email addresses are linked to my resume. If you are a bum, please use someone else as a reference. Low grades do not a bum make. Poor attitude shows bumness.

7) You can also add a photograph of yourself anywhere on your page, by simply inserting the line:

<IMG SRC="myface.gif" ALIGN="BOTTOM">

where myface.gif or myface.jpg is the name of the photo that you have put in your account with the other files. Simply have D'Anne in room 139 make you a photo, or scan your picture in as a GIF file (ask how in the computer lab), and put it into the same directory as your index.html file. If you don't have a picture, come by and I will take a digital picture of you for your resume. Note that this line must go below the    <body>    tag and above    /<body>, i.e. inside the body of the document.

8) MAKE SURE that the file you transfer to your computer account has the name: index.html

(It is case sensitive, so use all lower case.)

To check that you have properly uploaded your file, enter the following URL into your browser:

http://people.tamu.edu/~yourNETID/

Be sure and put in the tilde:   ~

This should let you see if it is working.

9) You can check what your resume looks like before you send it to your computer account. While it is still on your PC, browse to the file using Internet Explorer or Netscape by clicking on "File", and then on "Open File" and browse to your file.

IV) HOW TO TRANSFER THE FILE TO YOUR COMPUTER ACCOUNT:

Transfer the following two files from your computer to your PUBLIC_HTML subdirectory, using WINSCP3 on the CE Lab computers. Note: DO NOT USE WINSCP2, since that is not a secure client, and you will not be able to get into your account. Use only WINSCP3. It should have buttons across the bottom like SFTP, which stands for Secure FTP. If it doesn't have secure radio buttons at the bottom then you are using the wrong program. If you cannot find Winscp3 on the lab computer, ask someone at the help desk for help.

Files to be transferred:

index.html (which you built from the sample above) and
myface.gif or myface.jpg if you have a photo of yourself and want to include your picture.

The following are the steps you will be doing:

In the CE computer lab, boot up WinSCP3 - a secure program for uploading files to your account.
If you would like to do this from home, download and install WinSCP3 available at

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/winscp/winscp374setup.exe?download
For the Host name, enter people.tamu.edu
Leave the port number = 22
For the user name, enter your NET ID.
Enter your password.
Click the LOGIN button.
If it comes back and asks for a "session password", the settings are wrong and must be corrected. After entering "people.tamu.edu" under the session window, click "SSH" over on the left side (It is under the Environment tab) Under "Preferred SSH protocol version" some of the computers are set to "1". It needs to be set on "2". That solves the issue of receiving a "session password" prompt.
You will be presented with two lists of files. The one on the left is a list of the files on YOUR local computer. The one on the right lists the files on your university account. It works just like Windows Explorer. You can just drag and drop files back and forth. Be sure to drop your files to be viewed by the public into the public_html directory on the right.
In the left-hand box (your computer), left click on your index.html file (your resume) and drag it to the public_html subdirectory on the right.

V) HOW TO SEE YOUR HOME PAGE:

To see your home page, use Internet Explorer and enter the URL (Uniform Resource Locator):

http://people.tamu.edu/~yourNETID

VI) HOW TO ADD YOUR RESUME TO CIVILGRADS:

If you would like to have your name added to this resume list, I would be happy to add you. To see what the site looks like, go to: http://civilgrads.tamu.edu

If you wish for your name to be added, please email me with the following information, ALL IN A SINGLE EMAIL!

1) I need your name
2) I need up to TWO areas in which you would like to put your name (General and Environmental, or General and Structural, or ... )
3) I need your URL (i.e. something like http://people.tamu.edu/~tomboy) Note that this name will ONLY BE VALID if your file is named index.html. Otherwise you MUST list your URL as http://people.tamu.edu/~tomboy/nameofmyfile.extensionused, or whatever its name is.
4) I need your expected date of graduation.

I will be happy to add a link to your name and information. It will remain on civilgrads until you ask that it be removed, or until you leave Texas A&M and they close your computer account.

Good luck,

L^3