Readme for creating a webpage in asergrp wiki website (different from asegrp without "r" wiki, which is our internal wiki)

Due to the http://ase.csc.ncsu.edu's unavailability and future potentially unstable status, we decide to migrate ase.csc.ncsu.edu to https://sites.google.com/site/asergrp/ (which is different from our asegrp wiki, an internal wiki, which has no "r" in between ase and grp).

In principle, we want to maintain the directory mappping so that if we replace http://ase.csc.ncsu.edu with https://sites.google.com/site/asergrp/, the URL would be valid. Note that when Tao Xie created the ase server webpages, he maintained a local mirror on his homepage: http://people.engr.ncsu.edu/txie/ase/. But if some webpages such as project webpages were primarily maintained by a student, Tao Xie's local mirror may not be up to date. The student should create a wiki page here based on the student's local copy of the orignial webpage in the ase server.

For example, the following three pages shall be equivalent: https://sites.google.com/site/asergrp/dmse, http://people.engr.ncsu.edu/txie/ase/dmse/, http://ase.csc.ncsu.edu/dmse (currently broken).

The following three pages shall be equivalent: https://sites.google.com/site/asergrp/projects/minecode, http://people.engr.ncsu.edu/txie/ase/projects/minecode, http://ase.csc.ncsu.edu/projects/minecode (currently broken).

  • Creating a project web
  • NOTE
    • When you create a webpage, enter the webpage name without space so that the URL to it includes no space (note that even if you create your webpage name as upper case, google cite will use all lowercase chars in the URL). After you have created the webpage, you can always change the webpage title (while keeping the URL as the one created when you first enter the webpage name)
    • The easiest way for creating an initial webpage in wiki here is to use an HTML editor to edit a normal HTML file. Then you can copy the source of the HTML file excluding the first line "
      • <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
    • Then when you edit a wiki page here. Click the rightmost icon "HTML". Then you can paste the HTML code to the edit window. Click "Update"
    • You will be prompted with a warning dialog. You can just click "OK"
    • By default, some text in the HTML page is set as 10 font size. You want to change it to 12 font size and usually "normal/serif" font type (or "normal" if you like it better).
    • If your original HTML page refers to some links to some files such as images and PPT/PPF/zip files in the same directory. You need to upload these files to the wiki page as "Attachments" near the bottom of the page. And then you should change the URL in the wiki page to point to these files (you can modify the URL in the normal wiki edit page or modify the HTML source by following the steps above).