UVM Self-help Web Guide
Semester's help hours
By appointment for one-hour slots:
Tuesdays, Jan. 10 – May 29, 2012
Tuesdays, June 19 – Aug 21, 2012
9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Sign up for help hours.
We have come to expect certain questions.
I want to build a website. How do I get started?
Your first step is to contact ETS's Account Services in order to open a departmental netID for your website.
You can then walk yourself through the initial ways to start building your website.
Can I recover a file which I accidentally deleted?
Yes, ETS offers step-by-step directions on file recovery.
I forgot my password. Now what?
The ETS website can walk you through how to change your password.
UVM's Self-help Web Guide
The UVM Web Team supports divisions building websites within the UVM Web Publishing System through this online guide for building and maintaining websites at UVM.
We also host weekly help hours by appointment for those in need of support.
Looking for something? Search for it in our A-Z directory:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
- Accessibility - Web guide documentation
- Accordion content - Web guide documentation
- Accounts for departments and student organizations - ETS documentation
- Analytics/track hits - Add code to your configuration file or defaultmenu as detailed in the Template Guide's config file how-to.
- Audio on your website - Web guide documentation
- A-Z for your website - Web guide documentation
B
- Banner settings/colors - Web guide documentation
- Blogging - UVM's WordPress blogging tool
C
- Calendar, adding to your website - Web guide documentation
- Color themes for your website - Web guide documentation
- Configuration file use - Web guide documentation
- Contribute - Web guide documentation
- Copyright and fair use on the Web - Web guide documentation
- Courses, adding to your website - Web guide documentation
- CSS (color themes, preconfigured styles)
D
- Database use to manage dynamic Web content - Visit https://webdb.uvm.edu/ to create or manage your mySQL account. For technical support, contact Wesley.Wright@uvm.edu at the Center for Teaching and Learning
- Defaultlocations.html - Web guide documentation
- Directory of department, adding to your website - Web guide documentation
- Download magicscript to use UVM Web Template - PC users will need WinSCP, Mac users need Fetch or Fugu (free downloads in ETS's software section. For support: ETS help via Helpline)
E
- E-mail newsletter template - Web guide documentation
F
- Favicon - Web guide documentation
G
- GoogleTM search/analytics - Web guide documentation
H
- HTML hand-coding - Text editor needed (Notepad, TextEdit, Pico, etc.) Online resources include The HTML Writers Guild and the W3Schools HTML Tutorial
- HTML hand-coding using specialized software - HTML editor needed (BBEdit, Bluefish, CoffeeCup, etc.)1, no support available
- HTML without hand-coding - WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) HTML Editors (Contribute, Dreamweaver, KompoZer, etc.)1Web Team offers online documentation for Contribute only.
I
- Image editing - iPiccy (free online image editor), Adobe Photoshop, or similar
- Image effects - Web guide documentation
- Image library - Web guide documentation
J
- Javascript (sortable tables)
- jQuery (Accordion content, photo gallery slideshows,image lightbox) - Web guide documentation
K
L
- Link checking/validating - Online link validator tool verifies the functionality of the links on your page.
M
- Media manager - Upload video and audio files using CTL's online utiity
- Metatags, custom - Web guide documentation
- Mobile Web presence - Web guide documentation
N
- News tool - Web guide documentation
O
P
- Permissions setting on my Web pages - use set correct web permissions utility from ETS or PC users can use WinSCP, Mac users Fetch or Fugu (free downloads in ETS's software section. For support: ETS help via Helpline)
- Photo galleries - Web guide documentation
- Policies - Web guide documentation
Q
- Quick links - Web guide documentation
R
- Redirects - Web guide documentation
- Restricted access to your website - use the Web Folder Protection Wizard or, to configure restriction manually, consult the User Authentication documentation - Stanford University IT services
S
- Scripts to process forms, use guest books, create counters and more - PHP or CGI Web guide documentation.
- Search, addition of a search feature to your website - Web guide documentation
- Search engine optimization - Web guide documentation
- Secure coding guidelines for web pages at UVM - Documentation from ETS
- Secure Web Pages using SSL - Web guide documentation
- Simple url with a redirect - You will need a text editor (Notepad, TextEdit, Pico, etc.)
- Social media - Web guide documentation
- Sortable table - Web guide documentation
- Style guide - Web guide documentation
- Submenus - Web guide documentation
- Surveys - LimeSurvey, supported through ETS
T
- Tables - Web guide documentation
- Templates, pre-designed - Web guide documentation
- Text resizing - Web guide documentation
- Transfer files between my desktop and the zoo server - PC users will need WinSCP, Mac users Fetch or Fugu (free downloads in ETS's software section. For support: ETS help via Helpline)
U
- URLs - Web guide documentation
V
- Validation of HTML code - Online HTML validator will check that your HTML code is correct and current against your specified document type.
- Video on your website - Web guide documentation
W
- Workshops - Web Team supported
X
Y
Z
1 Many WYSIWYG and HTML Editors also contain site management tools that often include FTP capabilities.
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