• Services
• Get Help
• Accounts
• Computer Labs
• Software
• Training
• Network
• Hardware Purchases & Repair
• Information Systems Applications
• Information
• Alerts & News
• Security
• Policies & Standards
• Forms
• About Information Technology
• IT Planning
• Staff
• Organizational Chart

Computing Web

All JMU faculty, staff, students, and affiliates may request accounts to publish web content to a JMU web server. In addition to the servers maintained by Information Technology, several areas outside of IT also maintain web servers. General information as well as information specific to students and faculty/staff are available.

General

• Policies

  All web site publishers at JMU are to follow the Policies governing JMU hosted websites.

• Information Publisher's Orientation Form/Process
  

  Completion of the Information Publisher's Orientation Workshop is now required before access is granted to official JMU web servers.

• Getting an Account

  Steps for Getting an Account for Department, Program, Personal, or Student Organization web sites.

• Personal Web Pages

  Individuals may publish on Peregrin. Account info for personal web pages is also available.

• Logging in to Web Servers

  Steps to log into Web, People, Orgs, Peregrin, and other web servers are found here: Logging in to Web Servers

• Creating a Website

  There are various points to remember when creating a website.

• Website Checklist

  Proper planning insures a successful website project. Please review the website checklist prior to requesting web publishing access to official JMU web servers.

• Official Servers

  Visit Official JMU Web Servers to see a list of the official JMU web servers, URLs, server software, types of content, and file transfer methods.

• Transferring Files using FTP

  Transferring Files to Web Servers via FTP is one method used on several JMU web servers. However, FTP access for file transfer is NOT allowed from off-campus except when using the JMU configured VPN client .

• Training and Publishing Resources

  Everyone has the option of using Do-it-yourself Web Publishing Resources. Faculty and staff have specific training and publishing resources available at JMU as well.

• Maintaining a Website

  Once a publisher creates a website, it does not mean the process is finished. In order to have quality content on the site, the publisher must continue maintaining a website.

• Search Engine Optimization

  Now that the site is created, what can the publisher do to help the site to be found by web search engines. This is a matter of Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

Students

• Student Organizations

  Student organizations may publish on the JMU web (http://web.jmu.edu) or orgs.jmu.edu.

Faculty & Staff

Faculty may request web space on college web servers to publish information about their course, its goals, projects, etc. Departments may also allocate space for faculty publishing on their departmental website.

• Training and Publishing Resources

  Workshops, Training, and Tutorials are available for faculty and staff. Other JMU Web Publishing Resources, including Distributed and Distance Learning Applications, are also available to faculty and staff.

• Department and Program Web Pages

  Departments and Programs may publish on the JMU web, web.jmu.edu, or one of the college web servers. more info...

• Personal Web Pages

  Faculty and Staff may publish to people.jmu.edu. Account info for personal web pages is also available.