Web Office News & Articles

Updates to Home Page and Web Policies

2008-10-19T00:57:00-08:00

Housekeeping updates for the University Home Page Policy and Web Policy were recently completed. Updates are as follows:

Home Page Policy: revision to the “Core Elements” section to more accurately describe the layout of the current home page, change to the “Content Policy”, “Link Policy”, and “Banner Policy” to include the Associate Vice President of Marketing & Communications in wake of divisional restructuring;

Web Policy: revisions under “Official Humboldt State Web Pages” and “Unofficial ‘Courtesy’ Web Pages” sections to include Marketing & Communications in wake of divisional restructuring.

These policies are currently under review by the Interim University Web Manager and Associate Vice President of Marketing & Communications and may be revised further in the future.

Complete text of these policies is available in the “Policies” section of this web site.

Web Council Meeting, June 18

2007-06-06T21:42:00-08:00

There will be a Web Council meeting Monday, June 18 from 3:00 to 4:30 pm in the Kate Buchanan Room. The meeting will focus on the CSU’s Accessible Technology Initiative and its implications for HSU web development. We will also demonstrate some simple web accessibility techniques that can improve the compliance of web pages being developed this summer. Please RSVP by sending email to webmaster@humboldt.edu.

General Use Templates B and C Updated

2007-04-24T22:45:00-08:00

General Use Templates B and C have been updated for accessibility, to meet the requirements of the ATI Project.

Changed files include main.css, index.dwt, interior2col.dwt, and interior3col.dwt. Please download the new template files and update any sites that utilize these templates.

General Template B updated

2006-10-23T20:27:00-08:00

General Template B has been updated to display correctly in Internet Explorer 7.

Changed files include the Dreamweaver templates and the CSS stylesheets.

To update your site, replace the “styles” directory with the new directory from the zip file. Then add the following lines to the editable region labeled “head”:

Web Council Meeting, October 24

2006-10-23T18:55:16-08:00

The Web Office would like to invite all HSU staff and faculty that design, publish, or manage department or other official university web sites to join the Web Council-- an informal group of campus web developers.

The purpose of the Web Council is to facilitate communication among campus web staff, share ideas and resources, and discuss current trends and best practices. We will meet once a semester for an hour.

The first meeting will be Tuesday, October 24 at noon in the Goodwin Forum.

Please RSVP by sending an email to ajs7001@humboldt.edu.

Web Accessibility Training Opportunity

2006-09-13T23:15:01-08:00

The CSU is hosting a web accessibility training on September 28 and September 29. The two day hands-on training is offered at an excellent price of $225.

This training is suggested for web developers, web managers, programmers, faculty development and instructional design staff, academic technology staff, IT project managers, assistive technology staff, and those with significant responsibilities for updating web content.

For registration information, see this web site.

Redirecting web pages

2006-06-16T20:35:36-08:00

There are two ways to redirect an old web page to a new web page at HSU:

Preferred method: .htaccess redirect

There may be a file called .htaccess in the public_html folder of your web account. You will need to use an SFTP program to see it; you will not be able to see it from within Dreamweaver. If it doesn’t exist, create the file. Then make a backup copy of the file, and edit it using a plain text editor. It is important to only use plain text when editing the file, do not use Microsoft Word or any other word processor. To the bottom of the file add the following line (line wraps are marked »—content marked in this way should all be on one line):

Redirect 301 /~account/file.html»
 http://newwebaddress.edu

replacing /~account/file.html with the current path to the file, and newwebaddress with the absolute address of the new file. Upload the new .htaccess file and test your redirect.

To redirect an entire site (e.g. when moving a whole site from one account to another), use the following two lines instead (line wraps are marked »):

RewriteEngine on 
RewriteRule (.*) http://newwebaddress.edu/»
 [R=301,L]

Alternate method: meta redirect

This method can be done from Dreamweaver’s code view. In the old file, add the following line between the and tags (line wraps are marked »):

where N is the number of seconds the page waits before forwarding users to the web page listed as the “url”.

Home Page Quick LInks Updated

2006-04-10T23:45:38-08:00

We have updated the format of the “Quick Links” section on the HSU home page.

The new format is an accessible drop-down menu, which allows for a greater number of links in the section. We have added several links to drop-down based on user feedback.

CSS Selectors

2006-02-18T00:49:41-08:00

There are great references for folks of all CSS skill levels over at 456 Berea Street.

For those of you new to CSS, there is CSS 2.1 Selectors, Part 1, which goes over the basics of CSS selectors, the keys to the world of CSS. For more advanced users, there is Part 2 which goes over more advanced selectors, and Part 3 which tackles pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements.

These are great articles to bookmark and refer to whether you are learning or pushing the boundaries of CSS.

Getting Started with Accessibility

2006-02-14T23:44:02-08:00

Being EDU, a higher education weblog, has a nice set of links to websites, essays, resources, and tools related to accessibility. This is a great place to start if you’re looking for more information about creating accessible web sites.

Getting Started with Accessibility.