Projects Submission Guidelines

The following guidelines are to be observed when submitting projects that need to be posted on the UB CSE website. Any submissions that do not follow these rules will not be posted. Please make sure you follow all rules. Print this page and checkmark each step if necessary.

Your main file (the file that the user sees first) must be named index.html (htm). If your site does not contain a file named index.html, it will not be posted..

All links in your files must point to RELATIVE PATHS within the same directory. For instance, the link

<a href="http://www.bridgeport.edu/~mydir/index.html">Main</a>
WRONG

is absolute. Instead, it should be

<a href="index.html">Main</a>
CORRECT

All files in your site, as well as the links pointing to them, must be lowercase. This is necessary because the UNIX servers on which your site will be hosted are CASE SENSITIVE. Many students create their sites on MS Windows machines. Windows is CASE INSENSITIVE. Thus, sites that display correctly on Windows servers will not do so on UNIX servers if there are casing discrepancies. For example:

<a href="Index.HTML">Main</a>
WRONG

<a href="index.html">Main</a>
CORRECT

ATTENTION!! Many students submit websites that have been converted to HTML from DOC files by Microsoft Word. This software often capitalizes names of files automatically. Please double-check your links before submitting!

None of the file names in your submission can contain spaces or other special characters. or else they will not work on a UNIX server. Please make sure all your files are UNIX-compatible.

Example:

my main project file.html
WRONG

my_main_project_file.html
CORRECT

Please always test your site on a UNIX web server before submitting. You should have an account on the school servers. FTP your site to the .public_html directory and access it through

http://www.bridgeport.edu/~yourlogin/

where "yourlogin" is your login name on the UBnet system. If you are unsure how to do this, contact any of the lab managers for further information.

Once your site is fully tested and debugged, and you are certain it will display correctly on a UNIX server, with relative links, archive the entire directory in one ZIP file. You can download WinZip for free here.

IMPORTANT: The size of the ZIP file you are submitting cannot exceed 1 MB!

Once your ZIP file is ready, email it as an attachment to csewebmaster@bridgeport.edu. The email message must contain the following information: student name, project name, course, the professor to which the project is submitted, semester when the course was taken, and login name on the UBnet system. Please refer to the example below. If any of this information is missing, the submission will be rejected. The subject of your message must be "UBnet Project Posting"

Example:

Subject: UBnet Project Posting

Body:

Name: John Doe
Project Name: A Very Interesting, A⁺-grade Project
Project Course: CS597
To Professor: Professor's Name
Semester: Fall 2000
Login: johndoe

If you have any further questions about these guidelines, please contact the webmaster at csewebmaster@bridgeport.edu