Useful web-related information for faculty and research groups. Also contains work CRCF staff do in support of Chemistry's web presence. For the A&S web server, it's mostly Oliver.
Chemistry department's main web site
Requests for additions, changes, as well as problem reports, for the Chemistry and Chemical Biology's main web site should be directed to <chemweb>.
- Documentation — Information related to Chemistry's main web site, now that it is hosted within Drupal.
- Admin sign-in page for editors — To edit the site, you'll need to login first at <chemistry.cornell.edu/saml_login http://chemistry.cornell.edu/saml_login>.
- Chemistry web site Q&A, including faculty pages — Mostly for support staff. Answers to questions faculty and staff may have about the Chemistry web site. Including information about faculty pages.
- Historical information about the Chemistry department's main web site
- aa-Migrate Chemistry web site to Drupal — Oliver's notes. Current A&S Comm-supported CommonSpot platform going away so must move our site to new A&S Comm-supported Drupal platform.
- CCB web site-related projects and to-do's — Projects related to Chem's web presence.
- Older Documentation — Docs original created for when site was in CommonSpot. Migrate out VIVO and other info which still pertains now that site mov(ing) to Drupal.
Faculty members' research group web sites
Research labs have web pages. Smart choice of hosting makes your site attractive and easy to maintain. Challenge is that there are lots of choices! Learn of some of your peer's choices here.
- CU Blogs are great for Research Groups — Free services from ATC include consulting, building, and maintaining research and instruction-related web sites. Using EduBlogs and other services.
- Build your site within CU Blogs — Get started quickly: Select a theme. Convert the default site from a blog to a "normal" web site. Add pages and content. And get assistance from CIT's Academic Technologies for any of these steps.
- Sample request to ATC for assistance — Sample request a Research Group might send to ATC
- Turn on your new web site — A new site needs the group's domain name enabled once the site is ready for public access. This page has instructions. Contact Chemistry IT if you need any assistance with any of this, please. Thank you.
- Non-Cornell domain names — If faculty want a non-Cornell domain name, they will usually just use a 3rd party domain registrar. This page contains a few services recommended by others on campus.
- Off-site hosting examples — Examples of non-campus-based web and web-related services, such as domain hosting.
- Static web sites — Most Chemistry research lab sites have historically been static web sites. Many, many have moved to CU Blogs. These were migrated from A&S's web server to CIT's service Dec 2012/ Jan 2013. N.B. The Stockroom site is still a static site.
- CIT migrating service to Media3, summer 2018 — Summer 2018: INC000002275684
- CIT static web site service tips — ChemIT follows some conventions in setting up CCB research group web sites with CIT to facilitate support and sustainability.
- Code for static web sites — Resources of possible value to web site designers, creators, and editors.
- Differences moving to new web host — This page itemizes the differences between the former A&S's static web site hosting service and the current CIT static web site hosting service.
- Email to Research Faculty, Jan 2013 — Text of email to Chemistry research groups with static web sites, from CRCF. These sites were moved from A&S's web server to CIT. A&S's web server is being turned off.
- Resolving Leslie's issues with CIT's static web site service — This page contains information pertaining specifically to resolving CIT service issues Leslie Kinsland has been facing, Spring 2013.
Image editing web-based tools
Free, easy to use web tools to crop, change resolution, and reduce the file size of image files.
Inventory of web sites and hosting locations
Chemistry and Physics web site hosting inventory.
- CU Blogs with Chem domain names, payments, accounts, and official lists from CIT — CIT charges $100 annually for Chem domain names pointing to CU Blogs. This page contains information on who pays and a history of CIT's data on this topic.