World Wide Web Development

Welcome to the Webmaster Information section of the USCJ website.

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The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism is facilitating World Wide Web development by its affiliated organizations by providing free web hosting on its server for affiliated synagogues and schools to create their own websites, including virtual domains (like http://www.your-synagogue.org), e-mail, listserv and Microsoft FrontPage hosting.

Menu of Internet Hosting Services

In order to mount a page on the USCJ server, webmasters, also known as "spiders," should first read the USCJ Web Development Guidelines. Then, the organization's chief executive officer (synagogue president, school principal, or equivalent) should send authorization by mail or e-mail to the appropriate contact listed in the guidelines.

Each USCJ synagogue, region, or other organization will be provided a directory for its use on the USCJ server. This directory will be under USCJ's directory and also under the subdirectory for the appropriate region. The organization's directory is created when the president or executive director sends his or her approval to USCJ. An e-mail message confirming the account setup and giving the directory name and password is sent to the person indicated in the authorizing message. It takes approximately two days to set up an account and directories.

How to Register Your Domain Name

Click here for more information.

Adding Files to your Web Space

• Get your login and password from the appropriate USCJ contact, listed in the guidelines.
• Work on your home computer, creating HTML files to upload to the server. There are many books and web sites with information on basic HTML. If you need to get a home page up immediately, there is very basic template, there is one for synagogue web pages available on the USCJ server.
• Keep a backup copy of all files and unique images.
• Using ftp commands or graphical software clients such as WS_FTP (IBM and compatibles) or Fetch (Macintosh), connect to uscj.org and enter your login and password.
• Create any subdirectories you need under your main directory.
• Upload files to your directory or subdirectories.
• When finished, close the ftp connection and quit your software package.

Useful Resources for Home Page Development

Beginner's Guides

• Creating HTML - A simple guide
• How to write HTML files
• A Beginners' Guide to HTML

USCJ Help Files

• Help for Multiple Password Prompts Problem in FrontPage 2000
• Request to Set-Up a USCJ-hosted e-mail list
• Use Special Links - Get Content Only Version of the USCJ website
• Hivelocity Support H-sphere Knowledgebase
• SiteStudio website builder for basic web pages
• Adding a counter
• Website Statistics
• Guest Book Form Script
• Password Protection & File Manager

Advanced Information

• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
• Matt Kruse's Scripts
• Perl
• Perl binaries, source, etc.
• Learning Perl by Randal L. Schwartz & Tom Christiansen
• Accepting credits cards (NOT specifically endorsed by USCJ as to security, etc., but you are welcome to take a look)
• Tripod JavaScript/CGI Library
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Tripod CGI (But Were Afraid to Ask)
• Webmonkey: Intro to Perl for CGI
• Webmonkey: CGI Scripts for Fun and Profit
• Matt's Script Archive

Calendar Creation

See scripting resources as well as:

• Calendars.net
• The JavaScript Event Calendar, by Kevin Ilsen
• Hebrew Calendar

Clipart and Graphics

• Adding Graphics to Your Web Page
• Backgrounds
• Making Animated GIFs
• Shamash Graphics Collection