Advanced Web and Blog Hosting

What's the problem?

If you're faculty or staff, you may have a "home page" with your basic biographical information, either on your department's website, on Iweb, or wherever, but it's a hassle to update it with your latest publications, research, or other information. If you're a student or organization, you may not have any institutional web presence at all.

Why should I care?

Regardless of your particular research area, there may be short articles or thoughts you have that don't qualify for publication in traditional journals or conferences. You may want to collect and publish short pieces of program code to help your students or fellow researchers solve a particular type of problem efficiently. And if you can publish them in a visually appealing and typographically consistent fashion, it can boost the professional impression you leave on potential collaborators or employers.

What's your solution?

The CAE weblog server offers a home for blog content (normally short categorized articles in reverse chronological order) and also more static pages such as a CV/resume/biography or course syllabi.

The blog-like features could be used as a searchable lab notebook, and the static page features could be used as a simple content management system. Dozens of installed themes allow you a fair amount of customization for the visual look of your site, and ensure a high level of navigational and formatting consistency for all the pages you maintain. All you have to do is organize them and write the actual page content. All editing is done through the web, so no need to purchase or use web editing tools such as Dreamweaver or Frontpage.

Where can I find more information?

See these sample blogs for ideas on what you can do. Contact Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu, 372-3601, Clement Hall 314) for more information or to create a group blog, or sign up for your own personal blog here.