SETTING UP THE FORUMS "HOME" PAGES IN YOUR CLASS AND DEPT DIRECTORIES:

This folder contains the pages you will need to put into the class server for each class that will have a forum set up. You need to edit each of the four HTML pages to correspond with your class.  I recommend doing this in a text editor rather than opening the pages in a web editor--I've bolded the text that needs to be changed in each file. A description of the changes also follows here; this isn't overly complicated but it can be easy to miss things. You might want to scan through this and then just hop from bold to bold in the actual files.

Since some of the pages used by the forum are generated through cgi scripts, you will need to edit the variables sent to the server. (We may also need to edit the path to the cgi-bin--we'll have to check with leland on this--to make it absolute, since the forums themselves will be running in a different place than our class pages.)

I have also included  here a folder called "images" that contains the graphics associated with the pages mentioned below. We might eventually want to change the links to reference a central image folder, but I thought we'd better get 'em locally for now.

IN THE CLASS FOLDER:

1. index.html
-This is the frames setup page for the course. Here you'll need to change the following:
The page title in the header--<TITLE>Understanding Being Chinese</TITLE>

The variable in the cgi call, which will correspond to the directory name for the course (maybe ENGL304 or LING227, for example)

<FRAME SRC="cgi-bin/annget.cgi?class=UND" name="right" frameborder=0 bordercolor=#c0c0c0 borderwidth=1>
 and
<FRAME SRC="cgi-bin/summary.cgi?class=UND" name="forumUpdates" frameborder=1 bordercolor=#c0c0c0 borderwidth=1>

2. tochome.html
-This is the menu bar associated with the forums announcement page.  This page also references the images file mentioned earlier. 

You might want to add an image to the top of the page to give your menu some pizazz (remember the width of the first column is set to 160 pixels). 

Beneath that image you place your course title--

<FONT SIZE="+1" FACE="helvetica,arial" COLOR="#000000"><B>Understanding Being Chinese</B></FONT>

You'll also need to edit the link to the course website-- 
<A HREF="http://www.stanford.edu/class/area-one25a/" TARGET="_top"><FONT
FACE="helvetica,arial">CourseWeb Site</FONT></A>

and you'll need to edit the source file link to the forum itself--
<A HREF="cgi-bin/Forum.cgi?class=UND" TARGET="_top"><FONTFACE="helvetica,arial">Discussion Forum</FONT></A>

3. photoperm.html
-This is the frames setup page for the photo permissions page.  It makes use of a cgi to generate the central frame of the permissions page. 

You'll edit the header title--
<TITLE>Understanding Being Chinese - Home</TITLE>

You'll edit the cgi variable, as above, for the main page--
<FRAME SRC="cgi-bin/PermPhoto.cgi?class=UND"  name="right" frameborder=0 bordercolor=#c0c0c0 borderwidth=1>

and again for the latest posts section--
<FRAME SRC="cgi-bin/summary.cgi?class=UND" name="forumUpdates" frameborder=1 bordercolor=#c0c0c0 borderwidth=1> </FRAMESET>

4. tocphoto.html
-This is the menu for the photoperm.html page. It uses the same set of images as the main tochome.html, and is pretty similar to it, except for the details of the links.

Here you'll need to change the title of the course in the body of the page--

<B><FONT SIZE="+1" FACE="helvetica,arial" COLOR="#000000">Understanding Being Chinese</FONT></B>

The link to the course web page--
<A HREF="http://www.stanford.edu/class/area-one25a/"TARGET="_top">Course Web Site</A>

And where it links to forum itself--
<A HREF="cgi-bin/Forum.cgi?class=UND"TARGET="_top">Discussion Forum</A>

There's also a link to a main forums help page for the dept; you can create your own (see below re: IN THE DEPARTMENT FOLDER--
<A HREF="http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/areaone/forums/" TARGET="_top">IHUM Home</A>

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IN THE DEPARTMENT FOLDER (a forums subfolder is probably best in case you want to add more help files, or decide to put all your forum announcement pages in one spot):

Since we will be taking over most of the forums help functions, we'll probably want to adapt these pages for our own uses. I have copied the current pages as a template; we can edit the content as appropriate for our individual depts. Some of these pages refer to the same images folder mentioned earlier; you might want to make another copy of that folder (if you are lazy like me!), or else be sure to edit your image links as appropriate to the home/help location.

1. index.html
-This is the frames setup page for the "department" home page/help page--you referenced this page in tocphoto.html, above.  This is where the list of current courses using the forum is maintained, and where faculty and students can go for help in setting up their browsers to use the forums. We might just want to keep the same page up all year, and just change/add to the menu instead of having a new page each quarter; this is up to you.

You'll need to change the header title--
<TITLE>Area One - Winter Quarter</TITLE>

The menu page asociated with the quarter--
<FRAME SRC="tocwinter.html" name="left" NORESIZE scrolling="no">

The help page for the quarter--
 <FRAME SRC="winter1.html" name="right">

2. tocwinter.html
-This is the table of contents for all the courses that are using the forum this quarter. You'll want to add links to each class announcment page--

The department logo image needs to be changed--
<IMG SRC="/images/IHUMLogo.gif"><BR>

As does the title in the body of the page--
<FONT FACE="arial, helvetica" SIZE=+1><STRONG>Intro to Humanities</FONT></STRONG>

Note: SLL has bracketed as a comment what appears to be an old link to photo permissions--this file is no longer available, so I assume photo permissions are now only given from the course announcement page. I have changed winter1.html to reflect  this order of events--student goes to class announcement page, does photo permission, and then enters the forum for the first time. I'm not sure why SLL moved the photo permission links, but since they did let's make the "help" reflect that!  I've left the bracketed link to photo.html in the file, though, in case it gets revived as an option from this page.

For each course, the following block of code appears (the links are in a table); you'll need to change/add/delete as appropriate for your dept--
   <TR>
      <TD>
         <P><FONT FACE="helvetica,arial"><IMG
         SRC="images/cleardot.gif" WIDTH=8 HEIGHT=8 ALIGN=bottom><IMG
         SRC="images/gray_triang_empty.gif" WIDTH=8 HEIGHT=8
         ALIGN=bottom></FONT></TD>
         <TD VALIGN=TOP><FONT
         FACE="helvetica,arial"><A HREF="/GWN"
         TARGET="_top">Great Works II</A></FONT>
      </TD></TR>

3. winter1.html
-This page is the main help page that appears alongside the list of courses using the forum.
   
You'll need to change its header title--
<TITLE>Area One Home</TITLE>

and the email address for help--
<A HREF="emailform.html" TARGET="right">HELP DESK</A>

The rest should be fine.

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If you guys find problems with this, let me know and I'll fix this!
-V.
3/19/99