CFCC Faculty/Staff Listing Template
December 17th, 2009
The Web group has created new Faculty Staff Templates that are available to all departments. These templates provide a clean and unified presentation of faculty and staff within a department. Small portrait photographs help students identify their instructors and help faculty and staff become familiar with their colleagues.
Turn Your Opino Survey Into A Response Form
December 17th, 2009
Want to know an easy way to add a contact or feedback form to your CFCC webpage? Well, you’re in luck because that’s what we are talking about today.
Opinio has added a response notification option to their survey management software. This allows you to have the survey response emailed to an email address of your choice.
Basically you can now tailor a survey to act as a contact form, feedback form, application or any type of direct contact form.
Make your Opinio Survey Look like the CFCC.edu Website.
December 16th, 2009
Here is a quick walk-through on how you can present your Opinio Survey in the Cape Fear Community College web template.
Step 1
Login to Opinio. If you are an Opinio user this step should be a no-brainer.
Step 2
Create a new survey or Find and select an existing survey you wish to modify. For this tutorial we will use an existing survey.
Basic HTML Part 3
July 28th, 2009
Tables are useful and essential when displaying tabular data for the web. Charts, Data tables, Calendars are all valid reasons to use an HTML table on your web page. HTML tables are comprised of rows and columns that display sets of data or content in an organized and structured fashion.
In this post we will use table markup tags to build a static HTML calendar. Using your text editor open your index.html file from the previous Basic HTML exercises. While following along with this exercise make sure to save often. There is a lot to do be fore we can view our table in the browser. Read the rest of this entry »
Basic HTML Part 2
July 17th, 2009
To continue the overview of basic HTML this entry will look at formatting and style tags for text and copy. The following HTML tags allow you to emulate the formatting and style of a word processor for text and copy displayed on the web.
Three common text style are Bold, Italic and Underline. Using your text editor open the index.html file you created for the previous post.
Basic HTML Part 1
June 30th, 2009
HTML is an acronym and stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is the most basic building block of websites. HTML is used to organize and display information on a web page, and utilizes tags to tell the web browser how to display the content.
HTML can format headings, paragraphs, lists and tables. It can also display images and create hyperlinks to other web pages.
The following post will cover some basic HTML tags that may help you build better web pages with clean and accessible code.
Before you get started there are a couple of things you will need.
- Your favorite web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari)
- A simple text editor like Notepad for Windows users or TexEdit on a Mac.
Working With Comments in WordPress
June 29th, 2009
Comment Moderation
Comment moderation is a feature in WordPress that allows you to prevent comments from appearing on your site without your express approval. Moderation can be very useful in addressing Comment Spam, but it has more general applications as well.
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Selecte a Theme For Your WordPress Blog
June 29th, 2009
What is a Theme?
Fundamentally, the WordPress Theme system is a way to “skin” your weblog. Yet, it is more than just a “skin.” Skinning your site implies that only the design is changed. WordPress Themes can provide much more control over the look and presentation of the material on your website.
Selecting the Active Theme
Create a WordPress Page
June 29th, 2009
In WordPress, you can write either posts or pages. When you’re writing a regular blog entry, you write a post. Posts automatically appear in reverse chronological order on your blog’s home page. Pages, on the other hand, are for content such as “About Me,” “Contact Me,” etc. Pages live outside of the normal blog chronology, and are often used to present information about yourself or your site that is somehow timeless — information that is always applicable. You can use Pages to organize and manage any amount of content.
Other examples of common pages include Copyright, Legal Information, Reprint Permissions, Company Information, and Accessibility Statement.
Using Images in WordPress Posts
June 29th, 2009
Images can be used in a variety of methods in your WordPress posts and Pages. They can be a major subject, or a referenced detail that enhances the information or story.
Inserting an Image into a Post.
There are 2 steps involved to inserting an image into a post. First, the image file must be uploaded onto your web server before it can be inserted into a post. The second step is to actually insert the image into the post in the appropriate location.
The simplest way to do this is to use the “Add Media” function on the post screen (beside the “Visual” and “HTML” tabs). Choose the appropriate button depending on whether you are adding photos, videos, audio, or miscellaneous media (e.g. PDF files).
