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- Using CSS for Drop Down Menus, 16 minutes. Demonstration of how to use unordered lists and list items with special CSS rules to create a drop down menu. There is a reference to a zip file with sample coding.
- 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.
- Another Way to Rotate Graphics using a Javascript Application, 5:06 minutes. An example of another Javascript that can be used on any server, that selects a photo to display on your web page. The photos do not have to be the same size.
- 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.
- Graphics for the web multiple videos
This series shows creating JPEG and GIF files using Fireworks, Photoshop and GIMP (a free program), as well as adding text to images, creating collages, and making backgrounds transparent. - 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).
Dreameaver CS3 Includes videos
Dreameaver 8 Videos (would relate to Dreamweaver MX 2004 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