Web Help - Web Services
University Information Technology

Policy and Guidelines

• University Web Manual (technical and policy guidelines for creation of UR web pages)
  New users must review this document especially as it relates to policy.
• Applying for an Account

Software

• Dreamweaver 2004 (Web authoring application - only recommended web authoring software)
• Dreamweaver 8 (Simple Tutorial)

General Design, Style and Useability

• Overview of Options for Web Authors
• Web Site Usability Guidelines
• Style Suggestions for UR Home Pages

HTML Coding

• Beginning HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
• Intermediate HTML
• Advanced HTML
• Redirect or Refresh a Page
• Greek Letters, Symbols and Mathematical Symbols
• Last modified Date on your pages
• Cascading Style Sheets References

Graphics

• Creating Web Graphics
• Creating Animated Web Graphics
• Creating Clickable Imagemaps
• Quicktime for the Web: Movies and Sound
• Text colors: codes and samples on black and white
• Web Safe Colors: local use noted
• Web-Safe Color Palette (216 web-safe colors)

Programming, Scripting, and Forms

• Sending Web Form Data Over E-Mail
• Filemaker Pro Databases Web Interface, How to
• PHP References

Web Databases

• MySQL with phpMyAdmin Tutorial
• Microsoft SQL Server (Using PHP with MS SQL)

UNIX

• A Quick UNIX Reference for Web Authors
• Using pico to Edit Files On-Line
• Using vi to Edit Files on the server

File Transfer Protocol

• SSH and SFTP for Windows and UNIX
• Mac OS X SFTP
• For more information as it relates to Web publishing see: Secure FTP replaces FTP on www-ftp.rochester.edu