Welcome to http://www.ohio.edu/pagemasters/, the pagemasters' toolbox, the home of on-line resources for Ohio University pagemasters. The Office of Information Technology ("OIT") and University Communications and Marketing ("UCM") have joined to consolidate here their former sites.

The shortcut links to the right will lead you to a variety of resources to help you to learn how to write Web pages in general, and specifically for Ohio University. The information available from this site is intended to assist anyone at the University who writes or maintains official or personal Web pages, especially those using the five centrally operated Web servers:

• The new "static-page" Front Door server, whose pages are uploaded to "ww2.ohio.edu," but are seen by the world at "www.ohio.edu," for official pages of any Campus, College, School, Academic Department, Center or Program, Administrative Office, Professional Organization, and for unofficial pages of any recognized Student Organization. For details, see the "nuts and bolts" link to the right. This server is replacing the VMS Front Door server.

• The "CommonSpot" Front Door server, all of whose pages are also seen at "www.ohio.edu," for official pages of any Campus, College, School, Academic Department, Center or Program, Administrative Office, Professional Organization, and for unofficial pages of any recognized Student Organization. For details, see the "CommonSpot" link to the right.

• The Center for Academic Technology ("CAT"; formerly Center for Innovations in Technology for Learning, "CITL") server, "www.citl.ohiou.edu," for faculty-designed and -developed resources for instruction and research.

• The OAK Internet Access and E-Mail system, for personal pages of that system's users (including all Ohio University students and employees).

OIT staff create accounts on the appropriate servers for each department (for the sake of brevity, we often use the word "department" generically to include all the various types of entities using any of the servers listed above), and provide the initial orientation to using that server.