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Note: In Windows, you must select the Greek keyboard for each program in which you would like to use it. For example, if you need to type a document in Word using the Greek keyboard, select “Greek” from the keyboard icon at the bottom of your screen. If you then use the internet, you must reselect “Greek” to use that layout on the internet. The Greek keyboard is designed to function in nearly every program on your PC.

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1. Click on the apple in the top left corner of your screen; select “System Preferences” from the drop-down menu.
2. Click and open “International,” which is located under the heading “Personal.”
3. Click “Input Menu,” located towards the top of the window; after clicking this you will see a list of languages.
4. Above the languages, at the top of the menu, check “Keyboard Viewer.” Once it is selected, you may close the window.
5. Click on the American flag at the top right corner of your computer screen; this will produce a drop-down menu. From this menu, select “Show Keyboard Viewer.” An image of the keyboard you are using will appear on the screen, and should stay on top of any program you are using, so that you can see it and type at the same time.
6. To close the Keyboard Viewer, you may select “Hide Keyboard Viewer” from the drop-down menu under the flag, or you may simply click the red ‘X’ at the top left corner of the Keyboard Viewer.
7. You can make it reappear at any time by selecting “Show Keyboard Viewer” from the drop-down menu under the flag symbol at the top right corner of your computer screen.

Character Palettes Set Up
An alternative to typing with the Greek keyboards is using a character palette. The set-up process is almost identical to that of the keyboards:

1. Click on the apple in the top left corner of your screen; select “System Preferences” from the drop-down menu.
2. Click and open “International,” which is located under the heading “Personal.”
3. Click “Input Menu,” located towards the top of the window; after clicking this you will see a list of languages.
4. Check the box to the left of ‘Character Palette.’
5. Once you have selected the palette, you may close the window.
6. If this is the first International keyboard you have added an American flag will appear in the top right corner of your screen. Clicking on this icon will produce a drop-down menu. Select ‘Show Character Palette.’
7. A floating pop-up window will appear with many palettes available for use; the palettes will be listed on the left hand side of the window, while the right-hand side will show the characters of the selected palette. Scroll through the list of palettes. Select ‘Greek.’

Usage

1. Click on the American flag in the top right corner of your screen. If this flag is not visible, see set-up instructions above. Clicking on the flag icon will produce a drop-down menu. Select ‘Show Character Palette’ from this menu. A floating pop-up window will appear with many palettes available for use; the palettes will be listed on the left hand side of the window, while the right-hand side will show the characters of the selected palette. Scroll through the list of palettes. Select ‘Greek.’
2. Once the palette displays the Greek alphabet, you may select each character individually by clicking on its image on the palette. Once you have selected the character you need, push ‘insert,’ located at the bottom right of the palette. The character will appear in your document wherever the cursor is currently located.
3. The Greek palette does not work in conjunction with the American keyboard. If you type ‘d,’ while the palette window is open, ‘Δ’ will not appear unless your keyboard is set to Greek (see instructions to use Greek keyboards above). To use a character while typing with the American keyboard, you must manually select it from the palette.

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NOTE: Once you select a different keyboard, the flag symbol will change to represent the keyboard in which you are now typing. For example, if you select Greek as your keyboard, the flag symbol will change to an image of the Greek flag; if you were to select French, the flag would change to a French flag, etc. Clicking on this will produce the same drop-down menu as the American flag.

Usage
Once you have selected the Greek alphabet you would like to use, your keyboard will correspond to the Greek Keyboard layout. In order to see the Greek Keyboard layout, you may choose to use a program called ‘Keyboard Viewer,’ an application already available on your Mac. Please see instructions for the Viewer below.

As with the American keyboard, when you type while holding down the shift key, or with the ‘caps lock’ key on, the keyboard will produce capitalized characters.

Diacritical Marks
To use the necessary diacritical marks in the Greek Polytonic keyboard, open the keyboard viewer (see below) and note the position of the marks on the Greek keyboard. The diacritical marks are already available for use on the Greek Polytonic keyboard, and are highlighted in orange.

The orange keys indicate that you must first push the key corresponding to the desired accent, and then select the character to which you would like to add the accent. Some of the diacritical marks will appear only when pressing the “alt” or the “shift” keys, respectively. Consult the keyboard viewer to locate all the necessary diacritical marks.

After you have selected the desired diacritical mark, the keyboard viewer will reflect which characters to which you may add the selected mark. While one accent is selected and is ready to be applied to a character, all the additional diacritical marks on the viewer will become blank except for those that can be combined with the selected diacritical mark. When seeking another mark to use in combination, don’t forget that there are additional marks available only when pressing the “alt” or the “shift” key.

For example, when you select “῏,” it will remain selected until you choose the character to which you need it applied, such as “α”. The result is: “ἆ.”

When “῏,” is selected and is not the only accent mark needed, locate the other desired marks, such as “ι,” and select them. Only after all needed diacritical marks are selected should you select the character you need to accent, like so: “ᾆ”

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1. Open Control Panel.
   
2. Double-click “Mail.”
   
3. Create new account.
   
4. Select “Manually configure…” and click “Next.”
   
5. Select “Microsoft Exchange” and click “Next.”
   
6. Under “Microsoft Exchange server,” enter “use810n07m.admin.slc.edu” and check “Use Cached Exchange Mode.” Enter your username, then click “More Settings…”
   
7. Click the “Connection” tab, then check the box by “Connect to Microsoft Exchange using HTTP.” Then click “Exchange Proxy Settings…”
   
8. Under “Use this URL…” enter “owa.slc.edu” and select “Basic Authentication” from the drop-down menu. Then click “OK.”
   
9. Click “OK” again until you’re back at the “Microsoft Exchange Settings” screen. Click “Check Name.”
10. When prompted, enter your username as ADMIN\[your username] and then your password.
    
11. Open Outlook.

Each person’s needs on the web are different, so we recommend you take a look through each of the sections below to find the right fit for your needs and budget.

In this article you will find:

• Free web services
• Registering a domain name
• Connecting a domain name to a free web service
• Purchasing hosting
• Connecting a domain name to a host

When you sign up for any of these services, be sure that you make a note of the passwords you establish with the providers and save any emails from them, as these contain important access information.

Free web services

These days, there are many companies that offer free web services of varying types. This kind of service is nice because there is no cost associated with it, and the tools provided are generally very easy to use, focusing on getting content up rather than getting bogged down in the coding/programming traditionally necessary for website building. Just a few providers to take a look at are:

• WordPress
• Blogger
• Google Sites (students may use gm.slc.edu; others can sign up at sites.google.com)
• Facebook Pages
• Youtube for hosting videos
• Flickr for hosting images

A quick web search will reveal a multitude of other services, too.

Registering a domain name

When you register a domain name you are simply renting that name from the company, usually for a period of a year or more. If you ever choose not to renew your registration, it returns back to the pool so that anyone else may register it instead.

There are a variety of companies that provide domain name registration. Some to consider are:

• GoDaddy
• Network Solutions
• Register.com

Registering a domain name for one year will cost approximately $10 – $30 depending on the provider and options selected.

When registering your domain name, you may want to select the private registration option. Without private registration, your address, phone number, and email address are publicly accessible to anyone who chooses to look up who owns your domain name. Private registration allows you to hide this information for privacy reasons, as well as avoid spam.

Often, before checkout, the domain name registrar will offer you several add-on services. Consider these carefully, as they can increase the cost of registering without adding as much benefit as they advertise.

Connecting a domain name to a free web service

If you decide to go with a free web service you can still register a domain name and have it point to your page or account on this service. There are a couple of ways to do this.

Forwarding

When a visitor goes to your domain name, the web browser will simply redirect them to the site you have indicated.

1. Log in to the website of the company you registered your domain name with.
2. Look for a “forwarding” option.
3. Enter the web address of your page or profile on the free service (for example, http://freeservice.com/users/myprofile) as the address to forward to.
4. Make sure forwarding is enabled.
5. Save the changes.

It may take up to 24-48 hours for your site to be reachable via your domain name, although it may happen sooner.

Masking

Masking is similar to forwarding. The difference is that when the visitor is directed to the site you have specified, the browser’s address bar continues to display your domain name, not the actual address of your page or profile on the service’s site.

1. Log in to the website of the company you registered your domain name with.
2. Look for a “masking” option.
3. Enter the web address of your page or profile on the free service (for example, http://freeservice.com/users/myprofile) as the address to forward to.
4. Some domain name registers may allow you to enter additional optional information here.
5. Save the changes.

Purchasing hosting

Hosting is also a rental agreement – you purchase a certain amount of space, bandwidth (the amount of data that can be transferred), and services from a provider, usually for a period of months or years.

There are plenty of companies that provide hosting. When choosing a provider, you will want to consider the server’s uptime (how reliable it is), the support the host provides (how quickly they answer their clients’ questions), the services (do you need particular programming languages or applications to be available?), and cost, among other things.

Generally, hosting starts at about $5 per month and goes up from there, depending on the company and features of the plan selected. Sometimes hosts give a discount for paying for an entire year at once instead of a month at a time.

An excellent resource for gathering information and comparing hosts is Host Jury.

Once you have purchased a hosting plan, you will receive an email detailing how to transfer your web files to the site and other configuration information.

Connecting a domain name to a host

We recommend that you purchase your domain name and hosting from separate providers. This is because companies are usually best at one or the other of these services.  Also, if you ever choose to move to either a new domain name registrar or a new host, it is nice to have that flexibility without having to worry about both pieces of the puzzle.

If you have chosen two different companies provide these services, you now need to link them together so that the domain name points to where your web files sit on the host. To do this:

1. Locate the hosting provider’s nameservers. This should be provided in the host’s welcome email to you or somewhere on their website.
2. Log in to the website of the company you registered your domain name with.
3. Look for an option to set nameservers for your domain.
4. Delete any existing nameservers.
5. Enter the nameservers you located from your hosting provider into the fields on the domain registrar’s website.
6. Save the changes.

It may take up to 24-48 hours for the pages on your host to be reachable via your domain name, although it can be nearly instantaneous. This is called propagation.

Students have access to the Pages server for website development. Accounts on Pages are created and deleted according to our regular network account creation/deletion policies (http://pages.slc.edu/~support/?s=computer+accounts).

Only faculty who currently have faculty websites have access to the Pages web server.

Services available include:

• PHP (For the current version, see http://pages.slc.edu/~support/files/info.php). For security reasons, PHP operates in Safe Mode.
• MySQL database by request only – email esharp@slc.edu.

Services that are not available:

• CGI scripting
• The ability to deliver email via a script to non-SLC addresses.

Pages Server Terms of Use

These policies were created in order to keep the server up, running, and secure for all users. By using web space on Pages you agree to these terms.

Directory permissions

For all folders on Pages, permissions should be set to 775 (rwxrwxr-x) or more secure. Upload scripts may not work with these permissions, but they are necessary for security reasons.

Use of PHP $_GET

When using PHP scripting for page templating, a combination of $_GET for the page parameter and include() to display the contents of the page mentioned in that parameter must not be used.

Software installation

We do not recommend installing blogging or content management software on Pages. You may want to consider using a free version hosted elsewhere.

If you are already using such software on Pages, it must be upgraded to the most current release at least once per month.

General PHP security measures

When coding, be aware of general PHP security precautions. These include:

• Email header injection (http://damonkohler.com/2008/12/email-injection.html)
• MySQL injection (http://tizag.com/mysqlTutorial/mysql-php-sql-injection.php)
• More reading on general PHP security measures: http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorial/php-security

Click on the Apple icon at the top left corner of your screen.
Select “About this Mac.”
A window will open. Directly beneath the large Apple image, the text will read “version” plus a number (ex: 10.5.5). The first two numbers tell you which operating system you have, either 10.4 or 10.5.

After opening Word, click on “Word” at the top of your screen. This will open a drop-down menu; click on “About Word,” which will open a small window with all the program information. At the top of the window in bold it will say “Microsoft Word” plus the year.

Mac 10.4 and 10.5 are the only Mac operating systems the SLC Help Desk support.

No, you only have to change the settings in your computer.

For Macs, the Keyboard Viewer is a helpful program designed to show you the placement of characters on your keyboard. See “How to Use Keyboard Viewer.”

SLC does not yet support Microsoft 2008, and so cannot procure or troubleshoot Word 2008 for you. But it is important to remember that students, teachers, and staff members receive a significant discount on Microsoft software.

Orange keys represent accent marks that are used for multiple letters. When a key is orange, this means you will have to first press the key to create the accent mark, and then type the letter you need to be accented.

No, the keyboard viewer is just designed to show you where the keys and accents are located; it does not affect your ability to type accented letters.

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Right click “My Computer.” The icon is generally located on the Desktop.
Select “Properties.”
Under the “General” tab, look under “System” and it will tell you which operating system is running on the computer.

After opening Word, click on “Help” at the top of the screen. This will open a drop-down menu; click on “About Microsoft Office Word,” which will open a small window with all the program information. Towards the top of the window will be displayed “Microsoft Word” plus the year.

Yes. Windows XP and Vista are the only PC operating systems the SLC Help Desk support.

No, you only have to change the settings in your computer.

Click on the following link for an image of how the international keyboard is laid out on XP and Vista:

http://www.datacal.com/products/us-international-layout.htm

SLC does not yet support Microsoft 2008, and so cannot procure or troubleshoot Word 2008 for you. But it is important to note that students, teachers, and staff members receive a significant discount on Microsoft software.

The most basic word processing commands (bold, underline, and italicize) can be turned on with the Alt keys as well as the Control key; in some Internet programs the text formatting tools will be turned on instead of the accent marks. There is another key that allows you to accent ‘i’ and ‘u’ without using the Alt key. It is the key directly to the left of the Return key; see your keyboard layout.

The PC does not have Russian readily available to users. However, it is simple to download the Russian language keyboard onto your computer. Click on the following link for directions:
http://pages.slc.edu/~support/article/configuring-windows-xp-keyboards-for-russian/

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