ChemIT follows some conventions in setting up CCB research group web sites with CIT to facilitate support and sustainability.

Note of an alternative: More and more Chemistry research groups are using CU Blogs to host their research group web site since doing so is easier to edit from many more locations, easier to share or transfer editing responsbilities within a group, and doesn't require client-side software (which must be selected, purchased, installed, and configured, updated and possibly transferred from one computer to another.)

To edit

• https://static-webdav.kproxy.cornell.edu/ccb-groupname/

In Windows, don't use the built-in WebDAV facility. It doesn't work reliably, if at all.

CIT recommends another tool:

• http://www.webdrive.com/products/webdrive/index.html

However, ChemIT staff did not like the interface or the license pricing of WebDrive. Please let us know if you like it, or don't like it. One of us test-drove NetDrive, which has more options and much better license pricing:

• http://www.netdrive.net/

Or, use Dreamweaver or the like, if your group already owns and is used to using this software. Here's a product recommended by a colleague at the Vet school:

• Adobe Contribute.
  Person recommending states: This is just a simple editing tool, no bells and whistles.  But it will allow you to connect to only your pages via a connection key and also allows for a review process prior to changes being pushed to a production server.  And it only costs about $37/license.

Again, consider migrating your research group's web site to to CU Blogs instead of dealing with all of this technical overhead.

CIT's links to these and other WebDav Clients

• http://www.it.cornell.edu/services/managed_servers/howto/webdav.cfm#links

To change access to edit

Send a request to ChemIT.

• Email us at ChemIT@...
• Use ChemIT's request web form.