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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

 

Site Redesign

Q: "We need to redesign our site. What should we do?"

A: Develop and test your new site in a separate environment from your current site

• Contact the Web development office for initial set-up of the development environment (see sidebar)
• The Web development office will create and give you access to a new Web development area.
• The Web directory naming convention will likely be the same as the current directory but with a number 2 in the name. (Example: Redesigned page for www.uwrf.edu/english/ will reside in www.uwrf.edu/english2/
• When the new pages are completed in the development Web directory the pages of the current Web directory will be backed up and then removed from the server.
• The new pages in the development area (www.uwrf.edu/english2/) will be moved into the original, and now emptied, Web directory (www.uwrf.edu/english/).
• Important note: If your original pages are regularly linked on pages outside the scope of your site, your new pages should contain the same name in the development environment. If not, afore mentined links will be broken when the pages are removed and replaced with pages of a different name. This is only an advisory suggestion.

 

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