Webmaster Messages & Status Report

Webmaster Messages & Site Status Report

August 2009

Weekly Activities:

weekly updates of main page and other pages that have informational changes
continuing efforts to publish individual teacher and staff member web pages
photo-taking activities in conjunction with the above

Future Activities:

establishing teacher "blogs"
expanding the resources at the Counselor's Office Site, Attendance Office & Administration Sites
art gallery

FYI: This site is optimized for Internet Explorer browsers. Over 90% of our visitors are using Internet Explorer. Netscape Navigator and other browsers appear to have difficulty with the Java Script pull down menus on the banners. If you do not use Internet Explorer, you can access most web pages at this site through the Site Map, an index of key pages which often, in themselves, over links to additional pages.

Occasionally graphics & clipart are used which originate from free graphic sites, e.g. Microsoft and Apple Coporations' graphic downloads. Some come from free & paid membership graphic sites (e.g. arttoday.com). All are declared to be copyright/royalty free but have no, otherwise, ascertainable origins.

The school webmaster is regularly maintaining, updating and expanding this site but does so on free time as this a volunteer position. Our site is hosted on a Linux-platform host server. Because this site makes use of occasional, non-commercial pop ups, we encourage you to add this site to your "trusted sites" list in your browser settings.

3rd Party Tools for Webmasters!

FTP Clients: From Ipswitch there is a free FTP program for transfering your web pages and associated files to your web site location.It is free for teachers and students who will use the program for school-related activities. http://www.ftpplanet.com/downloadLE.asp

You can also learn more about the LE version by clicking here.

Jesse Bethel Freebies for our JBHS Student, Parent and Teacher Community:

Departmental Banners are Copyright Protected and for use by Jesse Bethel High School teachers, only

Additional downloads of interest to our community can be found at the Webmaster's Download recommendations page.

To Staff, Faculty & Leadership:

Insure a speedier publication of your updates by sending information as a file attachment to your email. The webmaster does not download certain file types that may contain worms or viruses. To avoid being trashed as spam, please give advance notification of any file attachments you will send.

Be sure to send one of the two file types: either .doc (MS Word) or .txt (any word processing program on any system and do a "save as" into a .txt or .text file format). You can only select the file type when you do a "SAVE AS" command for the document.

Your web master will copy and paste your text into a web page with ease if you please follow the guidelines below:

1. Save your document as a "DOC" or "TXT" type file before attaching it to your email.

2. Proof-read your text before sending it; the webmaster may be very pressed and not notice any errors which need correction.

3. Regarding document formatting, please follow the advice below:

send no documents with information contained in tables or table cells

instead, please use the tab key to separate information which must appear in columns or to make lists

no unusal font styles or formatting will survive transfer to html

4. E-Mail your contributions for the web site to webmaster@jessebethel.net

Please note: Many internet domains are experiencing the problem of spammers and hackers inventing non-existant email accounts with innocent domain mail servers to use as false "return addressing" of spam. The JESSEBETHEL.NET domain does not send spam. There is currently only ONE valid email account under the JESSEBETHEL.NET domain. You can include our site in your "Trusted Sites" as we, also, do not send intrusive cookies nor engage in such for-profit promotion beyond our own school activities. If you use high security settings for your browser, please include us in one of your "trusted" sites so that our pull-down menus and "innocent" pop-ups will work. This site also has a policy against link exchanges. We are grateful when related sites link to us and are will link to useful resources that serve our community without serving intrusive cookies or promotionals to visitors.