File-based Web Authoring

Tools and information useful for creating and maintaining web pages in the CSE Web.

"Standard" CSE Look & Feel

  • The Orthodox Web Content Tool will help you produce and edit web pages with the standard CSE "look & feel". The page you are looking at is an example. Use this tool to create a new file from scratch, or take an existing web page and add the standard "look & feel", or modify the "navigation links" on an existing standard page.
  • You can safely edit the "body" of your standardized page with a standard text editor, as long as you only modify the section between the lines "<begin HTML content>" and "<end HTML content>"
  • Beware:Visual editors, such as FrontPage, Word, or Netscape Composer may cause the CSE standard look & feel of your page to be screwed up. Even if they do not change the appearance of the page, they may change the raw HTML code to the point where the CSE Orthodox Editing Tool cannot recorgnize it. If that happens, the best thing to do is to reconstruct the orthodox page by creating a new one, and importing the "body" section from the mangled file. You may have to rebuild the "navigation links" by hand, but by viewing the "mangled" file, you can not only see what they should be, but what their corresponding links should be.
  • Most of the MS Office tools can produce web files ("Save as HTML..."). If you want them to have the standard CSE look and feel, you'll need to use the CSE Content Tool as described above, and import your saved HTML file.

Periodic Maintenance

  • You should periodically check for broken links (links that go nowhere), or the converse: orphaned files (web files that are not linked from anywhere.)

Protecting Content
(Restricting Access to Your Web Pages)

  • You can protect your pages so only CSE members can view them, or so only specific individuals or groups can view them.
  • Managing so-called "web groups" is done with the Web Group tool.
  • If you are collaborating with others on some web pages, you may find it useful to view the access settings for web files.

More Information

  • "Federal and state law requires that University publications contain statements communicating equal opportunity and/or disability accommodation. In some cases both statements are necessary." Among the types of publications requiring such statements are those announcing public events, recruitment publications, applications for admission to our educational programs, and employment applications. Here is a page describing statements of disability accomodation, and a page describing statements of equal opportunity.
  • Lots of useful information can be found in the CSE Web FAQ. If you want to create your own home page, see the CSE Home Page FAQ. Other useful resources are listed at the left of this page, and many more can be found in the FAQs.
Last changed Wed, 2012-08-15 08:16