Hi,
Does anybody have advice on how to maintain a professional academic homepage--I mean the page one uses for class material, information on research, etc.
I tend to use wikis a lot now for personal notekeeping and the like, and I very much like the way they work: very easy to enter new material and edit old material, for example. But, apart from the fact that they can be edited easily, Wikis are obviously more like a card catalogue than a structured site. You can give them structure with categories, but it isn't natural to them.
What I'd love to find is some kind of similar system for more structured sets of pages: something where I could easily edit, say, the index page by simply calling it up, and where I could get an over view of the relationships of all the other pages (In general, I try to keep pages where they are so that I can find them again when students need to know what was taught in 1999; that can make things unwieldy): copy previous syllabi and edit the new representations, etc., preferably WYSIWIG or with minimal tagging.
Anybody have any suggestions? I don't mind experimenting with server-based software (I set up and break down the wikis all the time, after all), though an export/publish function might be required in the end, as my university space is pretty much for storage I believe rather than running software from.
Linux-based solutions are better: I think our university server is Redhat.
Thanks in advance,
-dan