Step 1 – Go to www.dropbox.com Step 2 – Click on “create my account” Step 3 – Fill in the fields, agree to the terms and conditions and create your account Step 4 – Create a folder, and label it
Setting up a Reclaim account
Step 1 – Go to https://reclaimhosting.com/ Step 2 – Click the “Sign Up” button Step 3 – Select Student/Individual account and click “Sign Up” Step 4 – Pick a domain name. This could be your name (www.yourname.com) something personal (www.yourhobby.com)
Posting in WordPress (if you are not using your own domain)
Here is a quick guide for signing up for the course wordpress blog. Go to the login URL for your course site (it will be posted on the course Titanium page, but will always be your course URL followed by
QGIS and data
Open QGIS and add a vector layer: Select your shapefile – it should end in .shp Once you’ve uploaded your shapefile, it should appear in the main area of QGIS. You probably want to start with WGS84 but it is
Some Domains terminology
Some terminology: Top Level Domain: Sometimes also known as “roots” – these are the highest level in the hierarchical domain system. Top Level Domains always come at the end of URLs, and include .com, .org, .edu, .usa etc. For a
How to link
When you reference your colleagues’ posts, you should link to them. In order to create a link: First, get a URL for the post you want to reference. The easiest way to do this is to right-click on the title
Logging into your Reclaim account
You can access your subdomain by attaching /wp-admin to the end of your subdomain URL and log in using the username and password you specified when you created the subdomain. You can also access it by logging into Reclaim hosting,
See who cited who in Google Scholar
When you search for a text in google scholar (http://scholar.google.com) you can also see the texts that have cited your source.
Embedding images and websites
You can embed an image using the “add media” button in WordPress, or using a thing called an iframe, which basically lets you embed one website within another. To read more about iframes, look here. To add images that exist
Conceptualizing a website
Components of a website: Content area Header Footer Sidebar If you decide to go with a wordpress site for your project, you should have: An introductory page that introduces the project, and explains why you selected particular tools
