Villanova community websites
 (Faculty, Staff, Students)

Every member of the Villanova.edu community automatically has a default webspace setup for them. VDeskTop allows you to use either a PC or MAC to access your webspace. [Local web editing software is preferred, see below.]

• Go to the Villanova directory: http://directory.villanova.edu
  Login and search on your own FirstName, LastName (nothing else needed) to find your website address;
  http://www34.homepage.villanova.edu/robert.jantzen
  XX = 34 for this example, you need these two digits for your webpage access
  
• VDeskTop
  contains MS Expression Web4 software for accessing your website and editing web pages. Go to Academic Applications and pick it from the list. Open it with your standard login. OR download the software locally (preferred) from the link below the bullet list.
  
  
• Once MS Expression Web4 is opened, use the menu "Open Site" with this syntax in "Location"
     https://webdavusers.villanova.edu/34/robert.jantzen [you can copy it from the Directory!]
  to open your site, using your XX and your FirstName.LastName from the Directory. After the first time you can instead open your website from "Recent Sites."
  
  
• MS Expression Web is like a combination of Word with Explorer, showing you your folder and file list (empty almost at first) and when you click on an existing webpage like "index.html" you can edit it. You can create new pages etc pretty simply. The web has instructions if you run into trouble, or you can ask bob.

If you get serious you can do a free download of "Microsoft Expression Web" and install it locally so it will remember your website and login information each time you use it.

Mac Users can use another local web editor: DreamWeaver requires a license and can be downloaded through UNIT, once you request access to the Adobe Creative Cloud here. [instructions]  Here is an Adobe website that has a fairly thorough tutorial for using Dream Weaver for beginners: https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/tutorials.html

 UNIT advises against using local software to avoid further responsibility for help, but if you use this on a daily basis you want a local installation which automatically remembers your site and (even) login information.

Here is some VU info:

• https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/artsci/faculty_staff/clasit/webediting/faculty.html
• https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/unit/employee_services/ACC.html
• This UNIT webpage requires you to login first:
  https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/training_secure/editing_homepages_secure.html

LaTeX

LaTeX is an open source free typesetting software used for all academic publications in mathematics and physics and many other disciplines. It is a typesetting system as opposed to a word processor like Word.

• LaTeX; Wikipedia LaTeX
• MathJax
  uses LaTeX code to put beautiful mathematics on webpages. [NO LONGER WORKS]
  • MathJax [MAA supports MathJax] [Using MathJax in a webpage via LaTeX]
  • test.htm
• For online Latex see here.

Serious math students learn this software. Math and Computing Sciences Faculty have access to a limited site license through Najib Nadi in Computing Sciences.

Online LaTeX is easy to use. See this site.