• Save early, save often, and use two to three forms of backups.
• When saving HTML documents, use filenames that have 8 characters or less, no spaces, and all lower case letters.
• Do not keep your files stored on multiple floppy disks.  Use a CD-RW and backup your files to either another CD-RW or a zip disk.  Remember that your public folder on the server is another source of backup.
• Create folders to keep your various files organized.  The easiest way to create a folder is to choose My Computer on your desktop, open the drive where you want to make folders (i.e. D or E) and then choose file, new, folder.  Name your folder.

II.  Bama Server Space Saving Tips

• Don't forget to remove all unnecessary files from your public folder.  This could include .ppt files or images that you no longer need.  To remove a folder from the server using FTP, double-click on the folder that you want to remove.  Then delete all the files inside that folder.  Now you can go back up a level and delete the folder itself.

• Make sure your images are JPEG's (.jpg) or GIF's (.gif) as opposed to Bitmap's (.bmp).  Bitmap's are considerably larger files on average.

• Clean out your email regularly.  These emails take up your space on the Bama Server.  This is particularly a problem when you have emails containing images or attachments because these are usually large files.

• You can check your disk quota at https://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~helpdesk/squota.pl.

III.  Microsoft Word

• If you choose to create your résumé in Microsoft Word and save it as a webpage, be sure to use tables.  Don't space over or use tabs because it will not look right when it is converted to HTML.  Avoid using templates as well. 

V.  General Electronic Portfolio Tips

• Be sure not to use copyrighted images without obtaining permission.

• The photos of your students that are posted on your website, should not include recognizable shots of the students faces.

• Don't include personal information, such as your home address or phone number, in your website.  Students typically run into this problem when posting their résumé online.  Be sure to delete any personal information from your résumé before sending it over to the server.

• Make sure that you send over all of the photos that you want to show up on your website to your public folder as well.  If you don't, then they will not show up on your site.