Tag Archives: tutorial

February 25, 2013, 8:00 am

Host a Website on Google Drive

Google-Drive Last month, Mark showed us how to use Google Drive to host a continuously-updating archive of a Twitter account. Doing so means taking advantage of a new Google Drive feature, “site publishing.”

Now, maybe I just hadn’t had enough coffee when I was working on implementing “site publishing,” but it seems to me that the instructions provided by Google are not as helpful as they could be. It’s actually pretty easy, so I put together what may be an excessively detailed, step-by-step guide for under-caffeinated people like me. (This guide assumes you already have some HTML content you’d like to publish. And, as always, be mindful of the stability and security–or lack thereof–in the cloud. )

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February 12, 2013, 11:00 am

A Beginner’s Guide to HTML, part 1

By George Williams

If you don’t already understand the markup language known as HTML, there’s not necessarily a compelling reason for you to learn. However, if you’d like a better idea of how web pages work, then it’s worth taking some time to understand the underlying concepts. In today’s post, and the ones that follow in this series, I’m going to introduce the basics of how to create HTML documents.

Of course, here at ProfHacker, we’ve published on topics related to this. Julie offered “a pleasant little chat about XML.” Lincoln provided an informative post about Markdown, which is a user-friendly “syntax invented by John Gruber for marking up plain text.” Mark discussed “writing in Markdown with Gonzo,” a free open-source editor. I explained “how to get clean HTML from Microsoft Word documents.” Amy considered why you might want to use an HTML editor and introduced us to Mozilla Thimble.

What we…

June 14, 2012, 11:00 am

Checking Your Facebook Privacy (Again)

By Brian Croxall

Last spring, I wrote a post outlining six steps for checking your Facebook privacy. These steps were developed during workshops that I had been teaching faculty and students at Emory on creating an academic web presence. While I (and most everyone here at ProfHacker) would suggest that sharing your work and being find-able on the web can have a salutory effect on your career (especially when you’re on the job market), not everyone feels that way–and especially about Facebook, where you likely have connected with friends and family who aren’t related to your daily work.

One of the tricky things about managing your Facebook privacy is that there are so many different choices to make. The service allows you granular control over almost everything you’re willing to share, but that also means you’re going have to make many, many choices. The other thing that is tricky about…