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MXP Project Webpages: Requirements, Getting Started and Hints
MXP Project Webpages: Requirements, Getting Started and Hints
Project Webpage Requirements
Your Webpage(s) create(s) a permanent public record of your project on the MXP Google site. It will be accessible to anyone on the internet and it will be used by future MXP students when selecting their project. Keep this in mind when you create your page, i.e., don’t overload it with text; instead include diagrams and photographs of your setup and equipment and figures of your results. In that sense it will be closer to the design goal of your poster than the final report.
A project Webpage must include an introduction, a brief theory and apparatus section (with some pictures, if applicable) and your final results and conclusion. Be sure to list relevant references, for example, the paper the experiment was based on.
Finally, do not upload your final report to the webpage!
Getting Started
Getting Started
On the main MXP page, go click the link corresponding to your MXP II year and semester (i.e. if you are taking MXP II in Spring 2016, click on Spring 2016 Projects link). Each project has their own page already created. Click on your project to take you to your page.
To edit your page, click the pencil icon: (If you don't see the edit icon, you should first go to sites.google.com, access the MXP site from there, and then return to your project page.)
There you'll be in WYSIWYG mode (What You See Is What You Get). It kinda works like a text editor, like Word or Google Docs, but not nearly as powerful of an editing tool. If you know HTML, you can click the <HTML> button and code away. For the rest, make topic headings from the Format menu, insert links, images, and what not from the Insert menu.
If ever you have questions or need help with something, the Help menu is your friend. Go to Help -> Sites Help, and a dialogue box will allow you to search for what you want to do.
Alternatively, you can visit these places for a brief tutorial on google sites:
https://www.lynda.com/Sites-training-tutorials/1541-0.html
The Lynda.com video "Google Sites Essential Training"
Should be free to access via your University account
Video is 1.5 HOURS long
https://sites.google.com/site/mflynchsites/
tutorial videos and pictures
Creating Additional Pages
Creating Additional Pages
If you have a large amount of information, avoid cramming it into a single long, tedious webpage. Instead, break your information into multiple topics spread over multiple pages. For example, you may want to use a page for the results and another for the experimental apparatus section.
Creating new pages (or “New Topics”) can be done by going to Insert -> Link. Then click the "Create Page" button. Give your new page a title, be sure to click the button that puts the new page under your project page, and not at the top level, and hit create page.
Inserting Equations with LaTeX
Inserting Equations with LaTeX
One easy option is to go to https://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php, create equation in LaTeX, save as picture, then upload it to your site.
See this page for more information or other, more complicated, methods: Putting equations into Google Sites
Google Sites does not have a built-in special character menu. In order to type a special character, you either need to write that character's ASCII code in the HTML code of your page or copy and paste the character from another location. Here is a convenient website for copying characters: http://greek.typeit.org.
Google Sites does not have a built-in special character menu. In order to type a special character, you either need to write that character's ASCII code in the HTML code of your page or copy and paste the character from another location. Here is a convenient website for copying characters: http://greek.typeit.org.
Inserting Images
Inserting Images
You will need to upload the pictures you want to use into Google Sites, either by "adding files" at the bottom of the page or using the "Upload" button from the insert ->image dialogue box. Then to insert an image just go to insert -> image, select the image you want to put in, and you're good to go. Select the appropriate sizing for your image - Small, Medium, Large, 100% (fills width of browser window, adjusts as browser window size changes), and Original.
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