School of Computing

Tailoring your business card

Introduction

To make it easier for you to tailor the content of your business card, bp actually builds each page from several "include files".

When you first use bp these files will not exist. If you wish to use them, create the files in your ~/webpages directory. In general, the content in include files should be written using HTML.

There are three syles of business card, one for academic staff, one for non-academic staff and one for research postgraduate students. Each style requires a set of include files:

Style for valid include files
Academic staff interests, pubs, index.meta, other
Non-academic staff duties, index.meta, other
Research Postgraduates phdproject, interests, pubs, index.meta, other

Detail

The include files must be located in your ~/webpages directory. The include files which are currently used by bp are:

phdproject

This file can only be used by research postgraduates. It should contain information about your current PhD project. For example:

<p>
For my PhD project I am investigating how .....
</p>

The information will appear below the heading "PhD Project Summary".

interests

This file should contain information about your research interests. (It should not be used by postgraduates to describe their PhD project.) For example:

<p>
My chief area of interest is dynamic memory management - this grew out of work on lazy functional programming languages and particularly their efficient implementation.
</p>

It will appear below the heading "Research Interests" and the list of research groups of which you are a member.

pubs

This file should contain supplementary information about your publications that you'd like to make prominent. It should not include a list of your publication as this is provided via the "My Publication" link. The information will appear below the heading "Recent Publications". For example:

<p>
I also keep a list of
<a href="/people/staff/oc/talks.html"> external talks </a>,
mostly with slides.
<p>

index.meta

This file should contain any meta tags that you wish to include on your page. It is a good idea to include some meta tags if you want to increase your page's ranking on search engines. The two most commonly used meta tags are description and keywords. Here is an example of these two meta tags in use:

<meta name="description" content="Home page for Z.Kemp, Computer Science, university of Kent.">

<meta name="keywords" content="Z.Kemp, CHARM, Channel Habitat Atlas, Marine Resource Management, FishCAM, marine, fisheries, interoperability, ontologies, knowledge representation,spatial databases, marine GIS, environmental informatics, biodiversity informatics">

For most pages, placing the above two tags in the index.meta file, along with appropriate contents, will suffice. Note that keywords must be separated by commas. You might want to have a quick look at the Top 5 Search Engine Tips for some extra useful information.

other

This file is intended for anything else that you might want to include. It will appear at the end of the page (but before any closing boilerplate). For example you might want to include information about yourself or you might want to have a link to another set of web pages:

<h2>
About me
</h2>

<p>
<a href="http://www.otherdomain.uk/">Other web pages</a>
</p>

duties
This file should contain a description of your work responsibilities so that other members of the Laboratory know if you can help them. For instance,

<p>
Secretary to the Director of the Computing Laboratory and Professorial staff.
</p>

<p>
Duties also include conference and travel arrangements, hospitality for visitors to the Laboratory, booking of meeting rooms (Brian Spratt Room, SW102, S110B and S122A) and general administration.
</p>

<p>
Updating the room booking system
</p>

Note

To see these include files in action, take a look at the business card web page for the following people:




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Last Updated: 13/09/2010