Web Developer's Corner

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Browsing Posts published in February, 2008

Welcome to your new blog. You are defined as an ‘administrator’ of it. More on that below. Blogs are a couch potato’s way of managing a web page or posts on the web. You don’t need to know much html, and it’s fun. More on that elsewhere. Let’s get down to some basics. Point your [...]

Lost a document?

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You’ve lost a document, or it disappeared. No, you deleted it accidentally, threw it in the trash, or you wrote over it with another file. We’ve all been there. To deal with this keep an up-to-date copy of your web files on your computer, zip disk or other media. To do that: if you have [...]

What is webDAV?

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WebDAV means “Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning”. It once allowed Analy web account holders to edit and manage files collaboratively on web servers. However, we’ve had to move to FTP because of changes in our hosting service.

Here are some useful sources for people developing web pages who have little experience. W3Schools. A wonderful resource for internet developers: a dozen tutorials for internet development: html and more complex stuff. The Yale web guide. A down to earth and helpful guide to making a web site. Read this before you start. HTML Goodies, [...]

If you want a web page, but don’t know much about creating one, try a blog–like this one you’re looking at now. They are easy to have at Analy. They’re a couch potato’s way to go. You don’t need to know much html choose from among 100s of “looks” or appearances, which you can easily [...]

The most frequent reason web users come to Analy High School is to find information. Very often they’re looking for a calendar. Have you ever been there? It’s incredibly frustrating to go to a web site that doesn’t provide the basics: when and where events are. Would you like to help solve this problem? Read [...]

Q: It would be nice if the calendar on the website listed more than just holidays, such as rally schedules, school performances, testing dates, etc. A: Analy puts most of its calendars on Google. As a web page developer, putting your calendar on Google helps everyone out. Actually, all the dates you want are available–they’re [...]

Q: How can I adjust my photo size, color, etc.? A: Analy has a site license for Photoshop, the premier application for photo adjustment. However, you may not have that application where you are, or you’re feeling like a couch potato, or you need another alternative. The latest free, online, cross-platform application is the free [...]

Q: Can someone give me feedback on my web page? A: Yes. Here are examples of responses to other web pages. There are differences in styles, etc., which is personal, but at the same time we’re all working on one web site and for aesthetic reasons we might not want wildly divergent web pages. You’ve [...]

Contribute2/3?

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Q: When we were considering ways of making it easier for teachers to make web pages at SEBUSD, one program we looked at was Contribute2. Do we have that program? A: We checked and it’s not included in the CS3 site license but we hope to get around to checking out a trial version. An [...]