This week, I started to work on our project website. After exploring some alternatives, I decided on using Google Sites to build our website. Google Sites is a free-to-use facility from Google that makes it possible to build websites. Websites can be created from scratch or by using some predefined templates. I looked through the templates to choose the most suitable one for our purpose and found one.
On our website, there are pages that show the uploaded documents, tasks and actions to perform, a project timeline, our contact information and so on. It has all the features to coordinate and maintain the process of our project development. The site is located at https://sites.google.com/site/zephyrmetu/. Since we are given some disk space at the department to host our site, I redirected http://senior.ceng.metu.edu.tr/2010/zephyr/ to our website.
Finally, I thought of writing a piece of PHP code to maintain a log of the visitors of our page. Turns out, Google does not allow embedding PHP into web pages. So, I wrote the code to keep track of the visitors in PHP and uploaded it to our disk space at our department. Every time our page on Google Sites is requested, this script runs on the department's machine and returns the result. Google Sites allows this kind of "embedding" through a facility named "Embed Gadget". So, we have a log of visitors now.
On our website, there are pages that show the uploaded documents, tasks and actions to perform, a project timeline, our contact information and so on. It has all the features to coordinate and maintain the process of our project development. The site is located at https://sites.google.com/site/zephyrmetu/. Since we are given some disk space at the department to host our site, I redirected http://senior.ceng.metu.edu.tr/2010/zephyr/ to our website.
Finally, I thought of writing a piece of PHP code to maintain a log of the visitors of our page. Turns out, Google does not allow embedding PHP into web pages. So, I wrote the code to keep track of the visitors in PHP and uploaded it to our disk space at our department. Every time our page on Google Sites is requested, this script runs on the department's machine and returns the result. Google Sites allows this kind of "embedding" through a facility named "Embed Gadget". So, we have a log of visitors now.
Tolga AKIN
Department of Computer Engineering
Middle East Technical University
Department of Computer Engineering
Middle East Technical University
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