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Questions tagged [website]

Questions relating to websites. A website is a location connected to the Internet that maintains one or more web pages.

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Do academics look down on well-designed academic websites?

Rationally, I should not be concerned about building a well-designed academic website for myself. But academic websites are consistently so visually spare and poorly designed that I would feel like a peacock designing the site in any way. I don't…
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Should I host my academic website under my institution domain or under a domain of my own ?

My institution provides a dedicated storage space to host our academic websites, which is reachable via the institution domain (something like http://people.institution.org/John.Doe/). I try to have a tidy website of a few pages listing my…
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Free web hosting for academics

I would like to have a professional academic webpage, and for different reasons, I don't want to use the website of my current workplace (mostly because due to some external factors, it's not currently possible where I work, but also because I…
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How to archive an academic blog or website?

Academic blogs and websites are emerging as an important component of academic discourse. However, I often lack confidence that the content will remain accessible in the short term (e.g., 5 years) let alone the longer term (10, 20, 50, 100…
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How to manage the web presence of a research group

Given the importance of web presence how does one manage the web presence of a research group? The simplest approach seems to be to use links to the personal webpages of the group members to supply content. Is it worth creating content specifically…
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What are some typical reasons for a professor to not list their publications on their school website

I know of a full professor who doesn't list any of his publications on his website. He just gives name, title, email address and phone number. Nothing more, literally. When I search for his work internally through our library he has plenty of…
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Is a humorous "easter egg" in the academic homepage acceptable?

This is my current homepage at my university's website, I've considered adding a little "humorous" thing to the homepage to make it less "boring" and more approachable (the "updated" version can be found here, click at the button on the bottom of…
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How to arrange a multi-topic academic homepage

I would like to build my academic homepage and I am not sure how to organize it. I did research in several very different and unrelated topics, and in every topic I have different types of materials (e.g. introductory texts for students, published…
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How to efficiently (and aesthetically) display an evolving publications list on your webpage?

I'm building a personal website where I'd like to list my publications. Perhaps one of the most efficient ways to do that would be to use or build something that pulls data from an online bib file, and lists entries. I found BibBase, but it has only…
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Publication database backend for academic web sites

My institution currently tracks its members' publications by sending them an email every six months and then manually compiling publication lists from the replies. I am looking into updating the organisation's web site, and I would like to implement…
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Is it safe to list my publications on the Internet if I am being stalked?

I am being stalked by someone who probably poses no physical threat to me, but his actions were concerning enough that we filed a police report, and the dean of students moved me to different housing. Do you think it is worth taking my academic…
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Putting Semiformal "Nonpublications" on your website

Is there any good reason not for me to put semiformal publications on my website? I have all my published works under publications (well actually just in a list on my front page, but it should be apparent that they are publications. It also has my…
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Is there any self hosted alternative to Researgate/Academia/GScholar

This morning I've been looking for a self-hosted alternative to Researgate/Academia/Google Scholar/linkedIn; I'm currently using WP Resume but what I want is something where taxonomy etc are already adapted for a scientific profile. To be more…
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How necessary is buying a domain when I'm just a graduated student?

I'm a graduated student and about to make a poster for my institution's conference. I would like to have a website so that I can have more space to present in the poster while still have a data to show if necessary. If I choose to have a free…
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Is it a good idea to dedicate a page to thank people on a personal website?

I wondered if it is a good idea to dedicate a whole page on a personal website to thank some people who have been useful/important through an academic career. It would be something similar to what we can see in the "Acknowledgments section" of a PhD…
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