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Web Services

All faculty members, including tenure professors, assistant professors, visiting professors, adjunct professors, and lecturers will automatically have a biography page created from the HLS Faculty Directory. Affiliation with the Law School will stipulate what information appears on this HLS created web page. For more information about faculty web pages that appear in the faculty directory, please contact the Office of Academic Affairs at 617.495.5920.

Getting Started

To edit an HLS web site, faculty will need to have an SFTP account created for his/her specific web site. To have ITS create an SFTP account, please submit an SFTP request form . Once your account has been created and you receive an email confirmation from ITS, please visit the SFTP configuration instructions page for directions on how to configure either SSH Secure Shell, Dreamweaver, or Fetch. If you have questions about configuring an SFTP client, or if you have questions about posting information to your HLS site, please contact the Faculty and Staff Help Desk.

ITS also requests that all faculty read the Law School's web publishing policies.

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Web Features and Services

Training

Faculty are welcome to email training@law.harvard.edu for one to one training on how to edit HLS created web sites. Classes on how to edit HLS web pages are also offered throughout the school year. For more information about training opportunities at Harvard Law School, please visit the ITS Training site.

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Consulting

Whether starting a new web site or reworking an old one, planning is the most important aspect of web publishing and ITS can help each faculty member set out on the right path. If a faculty member is considering hiring a third party vendor to create a web site, please let ITS know. We can then coordinate a meeting with this vendor to ensure their site, specifications, and design are compatible with other HLS web services.

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Online Calendars

Public and private online WebEvent calendars (like the HLS Campus Events Calendar) are available for all faculty. If a faculty member would like an online calendar, please contact the Faculty-Staff Help Desk. ITS is more than happy to create this online calendar.

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News Feeds (RSS) and Aggregators

ITS provides tools for both publishing and aggregating RSS news feeds. If a faculty member would like to create a news feed, please contact the Faculty-Staff Help Desk. We will create this news feed and then provide the faculty member with instructions on how to apply the news feed to the site.

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Custom Search Engine

Please see instructions for how to add a custom search engine for detailed instructions on how to create a custom search engine. If a faculty member has questions about these instructions, please contact the Faculty-Staff Help Desk.

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Mailing Lists Subscriptions

Many times faculty would like the ability to have a link that would add people to a mailing list. For instructions on how to add this link, please view our mailing list subscriptions . If a faculty member have questions about these instructions, please contact the Faculty-Staff Help Desk.

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Forms (creating forms for your web site)

ITS is more than happy to help find the right form solution for a faculty member's web site. If a faculty member would like a web form, please contact ITS so that we can identify your needs and help create this form.

There are three different form solutions and asking the right questions will help us identify what form is best. The first form solution is to use a Harvard-specific online application called the Polling Tool. This will create an online form that can be used for surveys, quizzes, and evaluations. The next solution is to create a form within MyHLS. MyHLS is a great solution for faculty who wish to create a form for a specific class. The final solution is to create an autoform. Autoform is a tool provided by HLS to automate the process of authoring HTML forms and require a slightly deeper understanding of HTML. Please see instructions on how to create an autoform for more detail . If a faculty member has questions about any of these three form tools, please contact the Faculty-Staff Help Desk or email our training department at training@law.harvard.edu.

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Blogs

Blog creation and hosted is provided free by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. For more information about these blogs, please visit http://blogs.law.harvard.edu.

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Discussion Boards

ITS offers our community two discussion board solutions. The first solution is to create a discussion board within MyHLS. This is a great solution for faculty who want a discussion board for a specific class. The other solution is to create a discussion board using PHPbb (http://www.phpbb.com/) hosted by ITS. This is an open source program that is ideal for discussion board creation and maintenance. If a faculty member would like to create a discussion board within either MyHLS or PHPpp, please contact the Faculty-Staff Help Desk.

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Customized Web Development

For information about customized web development, please visit customized application development at Harvard Law School.

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Rotating Images

Some web sites would like the option of having a different picture appear each time someone visits this specific web site. This feature is called "Rotating Images". If a faculty member would like to know how to create rotating images, please click rotating picture instructions. If a faculty member has questions about these instructions, please contact the Faculty-Staff Help Desk.

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Harvard University Accessibility Requirements

ITS requests that you comply with the University's primary accessibility requirements.

Each web page in your site must have:

This applies to each included page in framed content.

Web pages may not have:

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