Web help (it's educational!)

groveratgroverat
Posted:
in General Discussion edited January 2014
I teach 8th grade English and I like to make files available on the web. So far it isn't a website at all, it's just a directory where they can click links.



I would like something prettier, but an absolute non-negotiable is that updating it with new files has to be as easy as dropping the file in my FTP program (and preferrably being able to create new folders).



Ugly:

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  • Reply 1 of 5
    mynameheremynamehere Posts: 560member
    Do you have any sort of server-side scripting (eg: PHP). If so, it's easy enough...
  • Reply 2 of 5
    stupider...likeafoxstupider...likeafox Posts: 1,618member
    You can keep the current solution and use Apache settings and some CSS to pretty up the display and make it slightly more functional. I've seen an article before that used Apple's icons and stuff to give it a Mac OS X theme. Googling...



    Still Googling, haven't found the article I was thinking of. I did find this:



    http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/ma...che_index.html



    which will allow you to turn your screenshot above into something like:







    For future reference you might like to check out http://moodle.org for online teaching/collaboration/communication/community building, though for just serving a directory of files it's a sledgehammer to crack a nut.



    Okay, I think this is the original article:



    http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...21107063219391



    Not particularly informative, but the comments have some interesting comments about the various options (you can see an example here: http://bronosky.com/pub/Indexing_Example/). Probably the first article I found, the official documentation (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_autoindex.html) and the advice to use Apache 2 if poss, should be enough to get you going.
  • Reply 3 of 5
    gregmightdothatgregmightdothat Posts: 1,709member
    iWeb? It's pretty easy.



    I think you can set it to publish to FTP.
  • Reply 4 of 5
    placeboplacebo Posts: 5,767member
    My high school uses Moodle and it seems to work very well, especially for CAD/ web electives.
  • Reply 5 of 5
    groveratgroverat Posts: 10,872member
    Oh that's super neato! I'll have to dedicate some time looking into it.



    I am fine with some work at the very beginning, but I don't have time to sexify HTML for every single added document.



    Thanks!
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