The following FAQ should hopefully answer all your questions, otherwise please email us.
How do I get a googlemail(gmail) account?
Why do we need a google account?
I already have a googlemail(gmail) account, what now?
How do I edit/add/publish/add collaborators to the shared documents?
What is the difference between the Google documents that we are sharing and the personal webspace?
How do I access (FTP) my personal webspace?
How do I view at my personal webpage in the browser?
How much space do I have in my personal webpage?
How do I upload (FTP) a file to my personal webspace?
How do I point someone to a file in my personal webspace?
I forgot the password/username to my personal webspace?
I don't have a personal webspace how can I get one?
Can't find what you're looking for? Questions / suggestions / thoughts.
How do I get a googlemail (gmail) account?
If you do not have a googlemail (gmail) account you will have to sign up for one, if you wish to edit the shared documents. Unfortunately you can't just go to google and signup (google do this to avoid spam) you need to be invited by an existing member. People who have a google account can invite others; if you need an invitation please email us.
Why do we need a google account?
The Optical Proteomics website was designed so that the members can easily edit all the relevant documents (provided they are given permission to do so). However you will need a google account in order to edit the Documents which are published on the website. At the bottom of most pages you will see this.
I already have a googlemail (gmail) account, what now?
In order for you to edit the selected documents you will need to email us your gmail username and we will give you permission to edit the pages on the website. Once we give you permission login to your google account and click on the Docs & Spreadsheets tab. As you can see all the relevant documents which are on the website have been added to your account.
This is the real power of sharing. Now you can create a document (grant, paper...) and add collaborators.
How do I edit/add/publish/add collaborators to the shared documents?
In the main page of the Google Docs & Spreadsheets you will see the list of all documents that you have permission to. As you can see each document has an Owner (in this case Opticalproteomics), Collaborators (all of us) and you can also put Viewers. As the owner you can add other collaborators, as a collaborator you can edit the document.
Once you have introduced the necessary changes to the document don't forget to save. To add collaborators to your document press the Collaborate tab.
If you want your document to be public hit the Publish tab.
Once the document has been published it has an http address associated to it. This document can be viewed from any browser. For any documents already online, you will need to click 'Re-publish document' to update the changes.
As you can clearly see this is a very powerful tool which can save you a lot of time when writing joint papers,grants... you can also add notes, revisions, the lot.
What is the difference between the Google documents that we are sharing and the personal webspace?
The Optical Proteomics Network website and personal webspace is hosted on a dedicated commercial server by 1&1. The Network is the owner of the computer and we have complete access to all files on the server. All Google documents within the website are stored on the Google servers.
How do I access (FTP) my personal webspace?
There are several ways to connect to the server using a FTP client. Theses are the basic settings
Please note that although you are accessing http://www.opticalproteomics.org/ you are being redirected to your personal webspace which is actually stored in http://www.opticalproteomics.org/~yourusername
host: www.opticalproteomics.org
username: Your username is the username we have on our database for your email address without any special characters (.,_,-...), i.e. if the email we have in our database is joe.bloggs@... then your username is joebloggs.
password: if you do not know your password please email us; remember that you can't change your own passwords only we can, so if you want us to setup a specific password let us know.
If you type ftp://www.opticalproteomics.org/ on the address bar of any browser, you will get a prompt asking you for your username and password. After entering them you can see the file tree of your webspace. The problem is on most browsers you will only be able to see this file tree, this effectively means that if you want to add/delete/rename a file you need a special FTP client software. There are a number of FTP client software which you can use
FireFTP - If you are using Firefox as your web browser you can download this to use with your browser. Download FireFTP (Don't forget to allow FTP to install the software) >> Press Install Now >> Restart Firefox >> Tools >> Add-ons >> choose the extension tab >> Install it >> done. Once its working open FireFTP , Tools >> FireFTP >> Manage Accounts >> New >> Account name is whatever you want (e.g. optical proteomics); Host, Username and Password you already have.
Other Free FTP clients include: SmartFTP, Filezilla... For a comprehensive list of all FTP clients go here
How do I view at my personal webpage in the browser ?
Your personal webspace is http://www.opticalproteomics.org/~yourusername
How much space do I have in my personal webpage?
1 GB.
How do I upload (FTP) a file to my personal webspace?
Connect with your FTP client to the opticalproteomics.org server
How do I point someone to a file in my personal webspace?
Your webspace is stored in http://www.opticalproteomics.org/~yourusername. Say for example you have uploaded a file called example.pdf, then in order to access your file you point your browser to http://www.opticalproteomics.org/~yourusername/example.pdf, you can also create subdirectories in your webspace.
I forgot the password/username to my personal webspace?
I don't have a personal webspace how can I get one?
Personal webspace is given to group members, however if you require a personal webspace you might be eligible email us to find out.
Can't find what you're looking for? Questions / suggestions / thoughts.
Nic Cade is in charge of the "how the website looks and feels" so if you have any queries regarding content, browser incompatibility, want to change the look of the website, want to add something... please email nicholas.cade( at )kcl.ac.uk
Lior Eligal is in charge of the root server. So if you have any queries about passwords, FTP access, Need more space, need a new account... please email lior.eligal( at )kcl.ac.uk
There is a possibility that we will add a more things to the server, that is only if the members of the group feel that they need this:
a. Webmail: we can give each member of the group an email address. yourusername@opticalproteomics.org
b. Subdomains: we can create subdomains. http://yourusername.opticalproteomics.org
c. Wordpress - A free, powerful and easy to use website creator tool which can be easily installed on the server.