Several similar servers had previously been established at district and campus offices. In designing a uniform approach to agent web page publishing, several County Agents - Agriculture, a District Director and a computer specialist met to develop and discuss approaches to publishing. A similar directory structure was developed for the FSC Agents using the same approach as Agriculture Agents. The Commodity Level was added last to the directory structure as the area where most of their files would be stored and served from the server. The directory structure developed on the Web Server was duplicated on the agents local computers to organize publishing and ftp processes.
Duplicate structures are very important when agents transfer their files to the server.
Their FTP training teaches them that local computer and remote server screens should be synchronized to the identical subject area and commodity folders making it easier to transfer files to the correct server folder. When the training for staff was being developed, the concept of keeping it simple played a major role. As the lead computer professional developed the training materials and agendas, a two consecutive day training format was adopted. She assisted with training and assumed the role of telephone help line support. On the initial training day, participants were provided with an example WordPerfect file that was to be converted to htm format.