We here at SCCS believe that users should make the final decision about the content they host. We even achieved brief national fame when we hosted the Diebold memos under intense pressure to remove them. That being said, there are circumstances when people want others’ content to be removed for good reason (personal attacks, etc.). Instead of just removing the content we will instead mediate between the user and the removal requester.

The process:

1. If a page we host is obviously libelous/contains serious hate-speech/is illegal/etc, we will remove it.
2. If someone other than a page’s original author requests a page be removed, we direct them to contact the original author to contact us to remove it if they are willing.
3. If there is no way of contacting the original author (with a reasonable amount of effort), we will edit the page in question so that search engines will no longer index it/will remove it from their index next time it’s crawled.

We believe that this process is fair for all parties, but welcome comments.

We have four options for web space at SCCS:

Groups
For groups, you can either get

1) an SCCS Wordpress Site here ,
or

2) you can get more generic space which you can edit by hand or with programs like dreamweaver.

To do the second option, go here and request: “Create a new org page”. Everyone who will edit needs their own SCCS account, so go to the same page and “Apply for an SCCS account”. Then email staff@sccs.swarthmore.edu with the names of the users and the organization username. Please give us some time to approve your requests.

Personal Web Sites
For your own site, we also have two options:

1) An SCCS Wordpress Site- easy to update and versatile, it’s not just for blogs. Go here for instructions.

2) A more traditional space where you can edit by hand or using a program like dreamweaver. Apply for an SCCS user account here . Once the account is approved, you can put files in your web-docs directory and they will be available at sccs.swarthmore.edu/~cschimm1 (insert your username instead of cschimm1!)

a) You do NOT need an SCCS account to have a blog. You do, however, need either a Swarthmore email address or an SCCS email address. One more reason to get an account with SCCS- your SCCS email address will always exist!

b) Your username (see step 1) does not have to be personal- it can be something like “activism_club_web_designer” or even just the name of the organization.
If you want a personal blog, you’re in the wrong place! Go here instead.

OK, now how to get a blog:

1. Go to here and create an SCCS Orgs account.

First Step

2. Choose the permanent url for the blog. This you cannot change! This will be the main url for the site, for instance http://orgs.sccs.swarthmore.edu/my_swat_org

The blog URL you can't change. The blog title you can change

3. Verify your account–you will receive an email to the account you registered with.

3. Go here and log in. You’ll be redirected to the admin site.

If you want to get a custom look, or to use a theme that isn’t included in our massive collection of around 200, go look for more. If you find one you absolutely must have, email us with a URL to the site. If it will run, we’ll install it.

Not sure about WordPress? Take a look at some sites that use WordPress – you may be surprised.

• CoPress
• Creative Anomalies
• xkcd

Facilities found some kind of problem with the power grid, so they’re shutting us (and the rest of campus) off while they’re working on it. We’ll be going down late morning or early afternoon on Monday the 28th, and coming back hopefully that night. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Happy holidays,
Staff