Student Organization Accounts (click here for student account information)

Student Organization Web Sites

Below are the necessary steps for requesting the creation of a new website for a student organization at Southern Polytechnic State University. (Throughout this tutorial, we use the 'National Society of Black Engineers' and 'nsbe' for example only. Your organization will obviously have a different name and acronym. )

• First and foremost, the student organization must be officially recognized by Southern Polytechnic State University.

• The organization must have a designated student maintainer of the site.

• The student maintainer must have an SPSU network account.

Once all of the above criteria have been met, send an email message to Dean of Students, Barry Birckhead ( bb@spsu.edu ). The Dean, or a designee, will forward your request, in the form of a workorder, to Information Technology. Your email to the Dean must contain the following information:

• Official organization name ( no acronyms )
  Example: National Society of Black Engineers

• Name of designated student maintainer
  Example: Joe Smith

• Maintainer's SPSU email address
  Example: jsmith7@spsu.edu

• Proposed acronym for the organization
  Example: nsbe ( must be 8 characters or less )
  Note: This acronym will be used for the organization's email address, i.e., nsbe@spsu.edu, as well as the virtual host name for the website, i.e., nsbe.spsu.edu

• Proposed password for the organization -- NOT the student's email password
  ( a minimum of 6 characters in length and no more than 8, must start with a letter and must contain a minimum of two non-alphabetic characters )

Once the workorder has been completed by Information Technology, it will be closed thus notifying Barry Birckhead that website creation can begin. The student may then access the site in the following manner:

• Go to "The Workshop" on the second floor of Building H.

• Log in to one of the computers as the organization's acronym and password.

• You may now access your website directory by double clicking on the "My Computer" desktop icon, followed by the drive listed as "W:".

• Create your web pages and place them in this directory.

• View your pages by opening a web browser and pointing it at the following URL:   http://your_acronym.spsu.edu/your_page
      Example: http://nsbe.spsu.edu/index.html