Step 1: What's Allowed on Web Pages

Before you begin creating Web pages, make sure that you understand what's allowed on them and the restrictions on their use. Here are the highlights.

As noted in its statement on file sharing, NC State has long sought "to foster student engagement and responsible experimentation with the latest technologies." Part of this effort is providing resources on the www4 Web server, and this is becoming an increasingly important part of students' learning experiences. However, these are shared resources, and if you want to retain access to them and your account privileges, you must use them responsibly.

NC State does not censor Internet traffic except in appropriate response to official complaints and in the case of illegal activity. Therefore, it is important that you read the Regulations and Rules page for NC State's policies concerning network, computing and account use, which are available at
http://www.ncsu.edu/it/rulesregs/. You are responsible for knowing these policies and abiding by them.

If you plan to publish your personal Web pages on the www4 server, you'll need to be particularly aware of the following excerpts concerning personal use of the University's information technology resources (emphases added):

III. Personal Use

Authorized users may access University computing equipment, systems and networks for personal uses if the following conditions are met:

1. The use is lawful under federal and state law.
2. The use does not violate any policy or directive of the Board of Governors, the NC State Board of Trustees, the UNC General Administration, or the NC State administration.
3. The use does not overload the University computing equipment or systems, or otherwise negatively impact the system's performance.
4. The use does not result in commercial gain or private profit, except as allowed under University intellectual property policies and the external activities for pay policy. However, in no case may University computing resources be used for solicitation of external activity for pay.
5. The use does not violate any University licensing agreements or any law or University policy on copyright and trademark.
6. The use does not state or imply University sponsorship or endorsement.
7. The use does not violate laws or University policies against race, sex, religious, disability, or age discrimination, or harassment.
8. The use does not involve unauthorized passwords or identifying data that attempts to circumvent system security or in any way attempts to gain unauthorized access.
9. The use does not involve sending or soliciting chain letters, nor does it involve sending unsolicited bulk mail messages (e.g., "junk mail," or "spam," or "MLM.").
10. The use does not result in any direct cost to the University.
11. Any creation of a personal World Wide Web page or a personal collection of electronic material that is accessible to others must include a disclaimer that reads as follows:
    "The material located at this site is not endorsed, sponsored or provided by or on behalf of North Carolina State University."
12. University computers must be registered with NC State in the ncsu.edu domain. It is forbidden to register a non-ncsu.edu domain for any computer which is connected to the NC State network without prior approval of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Finance and Information Systems or the Vice Provost for Information Technology. If such approval is given, it must be made clear that the non-ncsu.edu address is using NC State resources for delivery.

For security reasons, the WWW4 servers do not support the use of scripts (e.g., CGI, Perl, PHP). This means that your personal Web pages on these servers cannot contain features such as:

• Blogs (See WolfBlogs for this service.)
• RSS feeds
• Forms

Go on to Step 2: Planning your pages.

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Last modified September 26, 2007 by cawalker