1	Maintaining A Woodring Web Site For Your WCE Department/Program
2	Topics WCE Web page template Connecting to your site Organizing your site Miscellaneous File names, Titles, Style sheet, Spacing, Copying, Graphics, Documents Finishing up
3	WCE Web Page Template Header Footer Style Sheet Navigation Bar (Nav Bar) Content This is the area you maintain. You are the content expert. Advantage: the design is already done for you!
4	Connecting To Your Web Site start IE, go to DEV, then connect to FrontPage or start IE, go to DEV, copy URL, start FrontPage, open Web, paste URL folder
5	Organizing Your Web Site Use subfolders to organize your site Use a subfolder named images for graphics, photos, etc. Use a subfolder named forms or docs for PDF files, etc. Use other subfolders as appropriate to keep your site organized
6	File Names, URLs, and New Web Pages The file name is part of the URL (Web address) Home page file name does NOT need to be specified in URL, it is the default Name files carefully, use capitalization or hypens, no spaces, underlines, or periods (don’t put the date IN the filename) Do NOT change file names, this breaks peoples’ bookmarks, Web hyperlinks, etc. Copy/Paste the template to create a new Web page
7	Page Titles (used by Search Engines) Make sure each of your Web pages has a meaningful Title Define the Title in File > Properties or rename it from the Web Site tab Titles are displayed by Search Engines
8	Font Sizes, Colors, and Style Sheets Use existing fonts, colors and styles. These are already WWU and WCE approved. Don’t use the hyperlink color for anything but hyperlinks (otherwise users get confused) Advantage: keeps your pages accessible to people with sight, color, etc. disabilities
9	Hyperlinks Use hyperlinks to link to other Web sites and Web pages Use hyperlinks to link to e-mail addresses Don’t open target links in new windows, use the default
10	Columns (Horizontal Spacing) Do NOT use spaces or tabs for horizontal spacing, use tables instead Use percentage-width tables (under most circumstances) Manually resizing a table will convert it to a fixed-width table
11	Copying From Word Choose “no formatting” when copying text from Word (text will use formatting of Web page)
12	Graphics: Formats and Sizes Use .jpg for photos, .gif for graphics Use 72 dpi Resize the graphic in a graphics program, not in the Web editor (small graphic files load faster) Copy/Paste the file into your images subfolder Drag the image onto your page Custom graphics look more professional than Clip Art
13	Adding Documents to Your Web Site Create document in Word, convert to PDF (with Adobe Acrobat Pro or Standard or Word 2007) Copy/Paste into a subfolder on your Web site
14	Finishing Up Test your page(s) on DEV Submit a Tech Request to have your page(s) copied to WWW for public viewing