Miscellaneous items related to web work

• Creating Selectors using Page Properties, 11:29 minutes. This shows creating your first selectors (rules) for a document, using the Page Properties window in Dreamweaver. This is the way you can assign different traits to the four types of links and use or turn off underlining on some of the link types.
• Using the Randomtext Script on the CALS Server, 11:45 minutes. A programmer in the Networking Lab wrote a script that lets you create a datafile of text, images, or text and images which changes part of a web page each time the page is reloaded. This script is shown in this video. It only works if files are on the CALS server.
• Dealing with Missing Web Pages, 6.5 minutes
  As you start to delete older web pages or folders or change the filenames for previous files, you need to set up a page that displays to site visitors if they try to find a page which no longer exists.
• Setting up a Google Search, 23 minutes
  Reviews the steps you can follow to set up a Google search, for either your own website that you manage, or a series of URLs that you want to search personally as a group. Includes information about how to add a code to a HTML document to stop crawlers from searching that page.
• Online Course Delivery, 17 minutes
  A quick overview of various tools available to University faculty and staff who want to deliver course content through the Internet. Tools discussed are D2L, Moodle, Breeze, a password protected folder on CALS server, listservs, blogs and podcasts. Some pros and cons of online course delivery is also described.
• Using Dreamweaver 8 to Put a Video on a Web Page, 27 minutes
  Shows two steps to put a digitized video (in this case a Windows Media file) on a web page--first using Flash Video Encoder to make the file a Flash video, and then embedding the Flash video on a web page.
• Working with Permissions on the CALS Server, 17.5 minutes
  A brief discussion of permission commands; permissions affect you if you inherit a site from someone else or if multiple people are working on the same website
• Adding the UA Banner to a Web Page (12.5 minutes)
  General steps to get one of the 6 UA banners and adding it to a page using a table structure and a page using an ID structure
• Potential Problems when Adding a UA Banner (2.5 minutes)
  Shows some problems with conflicts in the background image and other headers on a page that needs to be considered when adding a banner
• Using-ftp.exe, 6 .75 minutes (executable file)
  The WS_FTP program is one way to transfer web files from your local computer to the Agserver. This clip demonstrates briefly how to use this program which can be downloaded for free and where to get the file. This program works fine with the CALS server, but it cannot be used if the server requires a security encryption.
• Basic Reports from Urchin 5 for Regular CALS Websites, 5 minutes
  Logging onto the site for Urchin reports, getting a summary report and changing the date range
• Looking for Information about Specific Pages in Urchin Reports, 3 minutes
  Examples of ways to use the Reports and Files feature in Urchin 5 reports, to look for most popular pages viewed on your site, views of a particular document, or views by folder areas
• Some Other Useful Reports from Urchin 5, 4.75 minutes
  Looking at entrance pages, exit pages, using the domain report to quickly calculate sessions from arizona.edu persons or sessions from people in a developmental team for a site
• Older Urchin Reports for Virtual Domain Sites on CALS Server, 3.5 minutes
  A quick look at the reports available for virtual domain sites on the CALS server, using an older version of Urchin. Not all the features of Urchin 5 are available in these reports

Web Graphics

• Image Resolution Problems 15.5 minutes
  Shows how to determine digital image resolutino and how you canuse Photoshop or Fireworks to increase the resolutin if you need to give the image to a commercial printer (like for a magazine or brochure).
• Getting Stated with Web Graphics, 2.25 minutes
  General comments about GIF, JPEG and PNG formats for the web
• Photoshop 7 Basics, 12 minutes
  A quick look at resizing, cropping and saving in JPEG or GIF format
• Fireworks MX 2004 Basics, 10.75 minutes
  A quick look at resizing, cropping, and saving in JPEG or GIF format
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Dreameaver 8 Videos (would relate to Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Dreamweaver CS3 as well)

Using and Creating Templates in Dreamweaver Videos (filmed with Dreamweaver MX 2004 but generally applicable to Dreamweaver 8 and Dreamweaver CS3)

Using Style Sheet Videos (filmed with Dreawmeaver MX 2004 but applicable to Dreawmeaver 8 and Dreamweaver CS3)

Dreamweaver MX 2004 videos

Creating forms and using FormHandler videos