Web publishing

 Why is Web Accessibility Important?

• More than 50 million Americans and 750 million worldwide - have disabilities.
• Numbers increasing as population ages. According to 2003 Census Bureau data, of the 76 million U.S. baby boomers, one out of four over the age of 50 and one out of two over the age of 65 have a disability.
• $1 trillion in aggregate annual income.
• Government mandates including Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Texas HB 2819.
• Universal design.
  

The Instructional Design team will help you plan, create and publish your course or academic group web sites. Please contact instcom@stedwards.edu to schedule a consultation or visit Instructional Design for more information.

Administrative Departments and Schools

To request an account for your department pages or request assistance with department pages contact the Web Team the group responsible for the institutional site. A network of individuals across our campuses help maintain the entire St. Edward's site.
 

Instructions for Publishng a Web Site at St. Edward's

All students publishing web pages at St. Edward's University need to complete the following steps to publish a web page:

1. Create your web pages.
   Instructions for creating web pages and information on Computer Training Courses dealing with web development may be found on the website creation site.
   When you create your web pages, make sure you name the first or home page index.htm or index.html.

2. Upload your web pages to the server edshare.stedwards.edu.
   Save the files in the directory public_html. If you are on campus, login to any lab or classroom computer and you are automatically be logged into EdShare. In your EdShare directory (I:) will be a directory public_html.
   
   Save all of your web documents in the public_html folder. This includes your home page (index.htm or index.html) as well as all images and web pages. If you are in a residence hall or off campus you will need to use a Secure FTP client to upload your files to EdShare.
   Instructions for using SFTP software to access EdShare (Windows)

Your faculty or staff account gives you the ability to create a personal web site via your personal EdShare account. In addition, any special shares created on EdShare may be used to create a shared web site for a class or committee. This does not include official department pages that are part of the St. Edward's official web site.  Faculty may request assistance with development of their pages through Instructional Computing.

Instructions for Publishing a Web Site at St. Edward's

All faculty and staff publishing web pages at St. Edward's University need to complete the following steps to publish a web page:

1. Create your web pages

   Instructions for creating web pages and information on Computer Training Courses dealing with web development may be found on the Web Development site. Faculty may request assistance with developing course materials for the web by contacting Instructional Computing.

Web services is made up of a team of highly skilled web developers, also known as the Web Team.

The web services group

Instructional Computing offers in-depth Instructional Design services. We work with faculty to design their courses with the appropriate technologies to address the desired learning goals and accurate assessment. We frequently work with Blackboard, blogs, wikis, digital audio/video, streaming services, podcasting and online classroom environments. We also provide assistance with research design along with statistical set-up and analysis.

One-on-One Consultation

Whether you need help with an existing technology, or you would like to design a new project we are here to help. Please email us at instcom@stedwards.edu  to set-up an appointment, or feel free to stop by our offices in the Faculty Resource Center in Premont Hall.