Implementing Jellyfish standards under Win32

Advanced Educational Technology and Systems

Right up front I want to explain why the words "Jellyfish" and "FlyingFish" are used. The name "Jellyfish" is used for a set of platform-independent standard for Web-based tutorials, developed by Dr Kevin Judd and Dr Nathan Scott of The University of Western Australia. The software you have just installed is fully compatible with these standards BUT for clarity it has a different name. In this case it is called "FlyingFish" because it is smaller and faster than its predecessors. Eventually there will be compatible server packages for Macintosh and UNIX.

What is the FlyingFish?

The FlyingFish does two main things:

• It is a small but very fast Web server; and
• It also performs sophisticated server-side include functions designed to allow you to create on-line course material.

At the moment you are only using the "simple Web server" function of the FlyingFish. You are using your Web browser to look at a page which is actually "index.html" in the FlyingFish/htdocs directory on your server hard disk.

So where do you go from here? The first thing you should do is to Log in. Then you can see web pages which are custom-generated for YOU - one of a great many things the FlyingFish can do!

To log in you will need a user name and password. If you have just installed FlyingFish then there will be a default user record for you to try. Later on you will probably make yourself a better record, but for now you can log in using user name "admin".

Follow this link to the login page and enter user name "admin". BUT LEAVE THE PASSWORD BLANK FOR NOW. You will be invited to choose a password as your first task as a new FlyingFish administrator. Once you have logged in, there will be further help and instructions.

Documentation

Look on the CD-ROM at the root level for a file called "FlyingFish manual v1.39.pdf". This is an Adobe Acrobat (TM) file and you may need to install the Acrobat reader to view it.