Transcript Internet Research Practice and Experience

Internet Research
Practice and Experience
Ravi Iyer
Objectives
Basic overview of technology
 Practical Tips
 Examples of Internet Research
 Lessons from those Experiences
 Stress reducing vs. stress inducing
 Got a project? Got ideas?
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Basic Internet Technology
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Where do I put my
studies? (domain
names & hosting)
How do I create a
study? (html, forms,
php)
How do I get
subjects? (ads,
myspace, craigslist)
How do I store and
retrieve data? (mysql,
email)
A Home and an Address
Web Server Space
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It’s just space on a
computer that’s
always connected to
the internet.
$8-30/month.
Includes a control
panel (cpanel, plesk)
Make sure it has the
technology you want
Or use the psychwiki
server for free!
A Domain Name/URL
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Owning a domain
name is cheap ($620)/year.
Buying a name once
you’re famous is
expensive ($1000s) so
buy your name now!
Registrars (GoDaddy)
and nameservers.
Get your ideas out
there!
From Your Control Panel
View Site Statistics (ie. Which search
engines, what links give you
traffic…are people coming and
leaving?)
 Create and erase databases
 Administer Email
 Password Protection
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Creating a Study
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A web page is just a text file.
FTP software allows you to put the text file
on your web server.
HTML gives the text file formatting.
Forms are HTML items that allow data
input by the user.
Javascript and PHP allow dynamic
functionality.
SQL allows you to write data to a machine
readable format (SPSS, excel)