Adam Rentz

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Introduction

As an employee on Missouri S&T's IT Relations team, I was frequently asked to perform website maintenance tasks. This involved updating content, correcting errors like broken links or formatting issues, and creating new webpages to spread important IT-related information to the campus community. In doing so, I became proficient with multiple content management systems, including WordPress and TerminalFour. During my graduate education, I had a course regarding HTML and CSS, and have since been able to create my own webpages from scratch using those languages. Below, you'll find examples of webpages and sites that I have created for both professional and academic settings.

  1. Security Keys
  2. In the summer of 2022, the S&T IT department began distributing security keys to faculty. I was tasked with creating material regarding the setup and usage of these keys. The following webpage includes text-based setup instructions for Windows, MacOS, and Linux, a link to a YouTube video that I made describing the setup process on Windows, as well as a link to a second page that answers commonly asked questions about the keys.

    https://it.mst.edu/services/account-password/trustkey/

  3. LAPS Tool
  4. To help members of Missouri S&T’s campus community access administrator privileges when needed, I was tasked with creating a user guide for the Local Administrator Password (LAPS) tool that the university used. I created two webpages to communicate this information. First, I created a page with general information about the program, the rules guiding its usage, and how it could be accessed. Secondly, I created a user guide that shows the setup process and usage of the tool on a Windows computer. The links to both pages are below.

    LAPS Info Page: https://it.mst.edu/services/software/laps-info/

    LAPS Usage Page: https://it.mst.edu/services/software/laps-usage/

  5. HTML/CSS Class Project
  6. In the fall of 2023, I was enrolled in a class that taught the basics of HTML and CSS. The course’s final project was to create our own website from scratch. As I have experience setting up servers to host multiplayer video games, I built a user guide for setting up a Minecraft: Java Edition server on Windows. I was very interested in this project, and I decided to continue my work even after the final was submitted to learn the process of getting the site publicly available. To do this, I used a GitHub repository to host the site and purchased a domain for it. Since then, I have been able to apply the lessons I learned during this project to other personal and class-related websites such as this portfolio site.

    https://project2.page