Blogs @ Baylor
The Electronic Library offers WordPress (Blogs @ Baylor) at
http://blogs.baylor.edu for personal web sites and academic blogs. To learn how to get a site in this system, please visit our
site registration instructions page.
Baylor University contracts with Edublogs, a company specializing in hosting large-scale WordPress instances for higher education, to provide Blogs @ Baylor. You may find it helpful to refer to Edublogs's support documentation as you being to learn WordPress. Otherwise, you may refer to the links below to view general support documentation provided by WordPress.com. While the Blogs @ Baylor WordPress instance has been customized to our needs, it still has much in common with ordinary WordPress sites.
For additional information about using Edublogs, visit http://blogs.baylor.edu/getting-started/.
BearSpace
Baylor provides students, faculty, and staff with five gigabytes of file storage space through http://bearspace.baylor.edu. In every BearSpace account, there is a "www" directory where you may host a static-HTML web site. The default page of any site in BearSpace must be named "index.htm."
- BearSpace supports static HTML web sites and client-side programming (JavaScript, for example). BearSpace does not support any kind of server-side scripting language such as PHP, ASP, or CGI.
- Users may access and synchronize your BearSpace account through applications like Dreamweaver or with simple Web folders through Internet Explorer for PC or through both Windows and the Mac OSX operating systems.
- See our instructions for connecting to BearSpace using Dreamweaver (PDF). NOTE: BearSpace may not accessed via FTP.
If you need additional assistance with WordPress or BearSpace, please call the Baylor help desk at (254)710-HELP.
