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Before you start...

Student web pages - Students automatically have 100mb of space to build a student website. Visit the student web support page at http://ot.bloomu.edu/Student/myweb.php for instruction. The remainder of this support page relates to faculty or staff sites.

Requests by Faculty or Staff must be made by entering a help desk ticket. Fill in your contact info.

Under the Ticket Information tab choose:
Problem Type - Web Related Issues
Category - Indicate Fac/Staff (faculty or staff), Departmental or Organizational Website (dependent on which type of web you are building)
Symptom - Request New Website

Note: If you plan to have a student assist you with your web, YOU (faculty or staff) must enter the ticket. Students are not able to enter help desk tickets. Students requesting an organization site must have faculty advisor approval.

You will be notified once your account is ready, you will use your Active Directory user name and password. (The same user name and password you use to log onto your office computer.)

FTP access is permitted on the server. Please view the Publishing documents on the righthand side of this page.

What will your web address be?

  • Facstaff web pages will be http://facstaff.bloomu.edu/{username}
  • Departmental web pages will be http://departments.bloomu.edu/{name}
  • Organization pages will be http://organizations.bloomu.edu/{name}

Dreamweaver

 
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 can provide you with countless tools to create a professional looking web site. The tutorials below demonstrate some of the basic features available in Dreamweaver CS4. Visit this link to learn about the differences and enhancements in this new version of Dreamweaver.
 

Important Resources (PDF Format)
  First Steps to Web Design at BU - Read This!
  Reference Manual
   
  Set up Your Site in Dreamweaver - Must be done in order to publish files correctly!
   
 
   
  Publishing and Editing Files
 

TUTORIALS
 

Resize Images for the Web
  Image Editing using Dreamweaver - Steps to edit photos directly within Dreamweaver. No need to use other software. Make certain if you use this method that you use a copy of an image - not the original!
  Image Editing using Photoshop
  Image Editing using Microsoft Picture Manager
 

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

  Cascading style sheets are a powerful tool that allow you to keep style separate from text. Work through this CSS tutorial to gain a better understanding of how they work.
   

CSS Layouts

 

The following tutorial shows how to create a new website using one of Dreamweaver CS4's CSS Layout features.

In addition, here's a link to Adobe Developer articles to help you gain a better understanding of CSS Layouts.
   

Flash Image Viewer and Flash Text
  Not available in CS4
   

Tables
  Work through this table tutorial to see how you can set up tables to present data, use tables for photo placement, and use tables for full page layouts of web pages.
 

Templates
  Understanding Templates - Create a Template from Scratch
  Note: Using a starter page to develop a template is not available in CS4
 

Download zip files to customize a template based website

 
 
     

Contact Form (Instructions and Zip Files you may customize)

  Instructions for Contact Form Zip Files-Form
     
 
 

Problems publishing your webpages? Receiving FTP Errors?

If you have previously set your site up, and are still having problems, click Site > Manage Sites > Highlight your site name and click Edit. Choose the Remote Info tab under Categories. Enter your Logon and Password. Be sure to Test your connection while on that page.

If you have followed the steps above and are still having FTP problems, please enter a help desk ticket for assistance.



This page last updated February 4, 2009

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