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bp (Build business card Page)

Create internal and external "business cards" (home pages) for staff and research postgraduates.

To build a page you must login to a departmental research machine running UNIX (currently myrtle.kent.ac.uk) and use the build script described below.

Quick start

• Type bp

  You should see a message similar to: Building page for mlb in year 06/07...
  After a short time, two files will be created for you:

  • ~/webpages/index.html (your externally visible page) and
  • ~/webpages/index.local (your locally visible page)

  Note: You must make sure that your home directory (and webpages directory) have at least world execute permission so the web server can get to it.

Recommendations

• This is all that is necessary to produce a simple business card. However, we recommend that you tailor the content of your home page using include files to add some interest.
• If you wish your photo to appear on your business card, and we strongly recommend that you do, put it in ~/webpages/face.{gif,jpg,png}. This image will be displayed with a height of 100 pixels. To achieve good rendering of the image it is recommended that you supply a good quality image which is already 100 pixels high.

Boring details

You don't have to read this...

• When run for the first time, bp will try and create a directory called webpages in your home directory. If you already have one, you should make sure it does not contain files named index.html and index.local as they will be overwritten by the 'business card' web pages.
• Remember never to edit the files index.html and index.local directly. Always tailor the content of your business card by using include files and then running bp.
• 'Business card' web pages will be served from the web server (http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk) at:

  /people/staff/<your-uid>/index.html

  and

  /people/staff/<your-uid>/index.local

  respectively, where <your-uid> is your user ID (e.g. mlb). NB: Replace staff with rpg to locate 'Business Card' pages belonging to research postgraduates.