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Essentials

Accessing Web Areas- Mapping the "W:" Drive

Requirements: Campus Web site

Permission to Edit: Request access to a Web site

Templates: For Web development (required)

Resources

Accessibility: Understanding the basics

Accessibility Testing: Check your pages

Dreamweaver: How to (4 page printable PDF)

Editing and Posting Content: How to

Redesign a Website: Getting started

Software: Order Dreamweaver and other from DoTS

Word Forms: On-screen completion how to

Web Redesign: Learn about how uwrf.edu is changing

 

Campus Web Development Office
21 North Hall, (715) 425-0661
webmaster@uwrf.edu


 

Editing Web Pages

 

 

 

How to post and edit office or department pages (UWRF.edu Web server):

Get permission to edit a Web page.

 

The "Top 5 Things to Know " for Campus Web Developers

  1. Know campus Web standards
  2. Use pre-designed templates for Dreamweaver
  3. Use image editing software to resize images to actually screen size before posting them to the server (Photoshop, etc)
  4. Use "alt" tags for images and other accessibility conventions
  5. Focus on Web page content versus Web page design

 

 

Jump to:

Edit an existing Web page on the campus Web server

  1. Log on to a campus work station using your Falcon ID
    Mac users: From the Finder, Go>Connect to Server>CampusWeb
    (See Special Instructions if you haven't mapped this drive yet and don't see a W or Campusweb drive.)

  2. Open Dreamweaver (Web Development software)

  3. Open the Web page you wish to modify. File>Open>...
    Mac users    : open CAMPUSWEB>Folder Name>Page name.
    Windows users:     open W: drive>Folder Name>Page name.

  4. Change content according to your desire, following Web standards.

  5. Save page. If you are denied save, you do not have access rights and must request them. In the meantime, use save as to save to your desktop or other location for later retrieval so you won't have to redo your edits. Do not update links if asked.

  6. Review the page as it appears on the Web using your Web browser (Firefox, Safari, IE or Netscape). Click refresh to view the last saved change.

Tip: Using a Web browser, first visit the page you wish to edit. The file name of the page will be available at the end of the URL.

Example: http://www.uwrf.edu/administration/staff.htm
/administration/ is the directory name, staff.htm is the page name.
Open the page staff.htm

Create a new page

  1. Open an existing page
  2. save as>newname.html
  3. change the title of the page (title field)
  4. remove unnecessary content in the body of the page
  5. add new content
  6. make links on other pages to the new page
  7. save the page

Placing Web pages and other documents on the server from a local computer using a campus workstation:

  1. Log on with your Falcon Account

Windows:

  1. Double click My computer.
  2. Open the W: drive.
  3. Open the Web folder to which you have access. Proceed to step #5

Mac:

  1. Connect to the CampusWeb server.
  2. Open the CampusWeb folder.
  3. Open the Web folder to which you have access. Proceed to step #5
  1. Open the source folder that contains your Web pages. (This could be a cd-rom or another folder on the network or on your desktop.)
  2. Drag and drop your HTML files from the source folder into the W drive/CampusWeb folder.
  3. Be sure your home page (the first page you want to display) is named welcome.html in order for it appear first when your web site is visited.
  4. Review your Web site with a Web browser at the url for the page you are editing.

 

 

 

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