Welcome fellow CSULB web workers! Many of us have toiled in isolation, with occasional, sometimes frequent, calls to Tech Services, trying to deal with some issue in Contribute. We hope to remedy that with this Contribute support blog. Share the common problems you experience in your web work, or a particularly frustrating obstacle you have encountered in creating or maintaining your web pages and sites. Even better, share the solutions you have found for these problems, or tips for getting around particular obstacles in Contribute, or techniques you have found to make your site more interesting. Or add to our discussion of graphics, audio or multimedia tools that members have found particularly useful. Together we can find ways to make our web sites more accessible, informative and creative. Let the blogging begin!
As much as I would like to take credit for the above welcome, in good conscience I cannot. It was written by Hicks Marlow; Content Manger for the Sociology web. This confession of mine is being done to enforce my feelings on a theme that Hicks brought forward and that is we are a team, a collaboration of efforts. Contribute-tors helping Contribute-tors,
WRITE ON,
Patricia Zaid, Public Relations Coordinator;
CLA Contibute Content Web Trainer
BELOW IS A TEMPORARY LINK TO AN ARCHIVED CLASS I TOOK ON ACCESSIBILITY . Simple thigs like using the "HEADING" settings in Contribute instead of bolding makes a big difference. pz
ATI Announcement Summary and Resource:
“PDF for Beginners” Webinar is Now Available! This is archived from a webinar presented live on February 26, 2009. Audience: Anyone! Whether you attended the live presentation or not, you will want to view this resource. How Do You Use It: Go to the link below. This online presentation is temporary. It will become permanently available on the ATI Professional Development web site to be launched later in March. Date Available: Immediately How Do You Access the Service: http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/p45975793 Benefits of Using this Service: Watch this and then attend our “PDF for Advanced Users” later this month. Skill Level: Beginner Who to Contact: Jean Wells, jwells@calstate.edu Sharing: Please share this with anyone who works with PDFs on your campus or missed the seminar. Sign Up Instructions: No sign up required. Requirements: IT’S FREE! Accessibility: This session is captioned. Who Sponsors the Service: This Webinar was offered by Adobe on February 26, 2009. If you have questions for Adobe please use their contact information in the presentation.
Accessible Technology Initiative
The California State University
http://www.csulb.edu/divisions/students2/committees/ati/
Commitment by Chancellor Charles B. Reed - Executive Order Number 926
http://www.calstate.edu/EO/EO-926.html
Policies and Laws for Accessible Electronic and Information Technology
http://www.csulb.edu/divisions/students2/committees/ati/policies/
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
http://www.access-board.gov/508.htm
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
http://www.section508.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Content&ID=15
PROBLEMS
Main Section; response traffic as Contribute-tors deal with their web issues,
TIPS
VERY BASIC “CONTRIBUTE” Getting Started
http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=417
YOUR TILDE ACCOUNT - how to set up your personal CSULB web page;
Techs in the City - created by Walter Gajewski/ Academic Technology CSULB
video #1 GETTING STARTED
http://www.csulb.edu/lats/itss/design/xml-files/video/001/index.html
video #2 ADDING PAGES AND LINKS
http://www.csulb.edu/lats/itss/design/xml-files/video/002/index.html
video #3 – LINK FROM YOUR WEB TO OTHER WEBS
http://www.csulb.edu/lats/itss/design/xml-files/video/003/index.html
video #4 – USE INTERNET EXPLORER TO MOVE FILES OUT TO A WEB SERVER
http://www.csulb.edu/lats/itss/design/xml-files/video/004/index.html
video #5 – EMBED A GOOGLE MAP INTO YOUR WEB
http://www.csulb.edu/lats/itss/design/xml-files/video/005/
Tool Hints: Walter used Camtasia Studio V.5 software for his above presentatins. He indicated that version 6 is out and is more user friendly.
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OTHER VIDEO EDITING, CREATE DIGITAL INSTRUCTIONAL DVD, STREAM VIDEO, Elluminate Live!, Flash Video
http://www.csulb.edu/lats/itss/design/tutorial.html
OTHER TOPICS;
Which graphic format is best for their purpose (jpg, gif or png)?
and how to optimize them for maximum clarity and minimum size
How to include multimedia on a web page.
Acrobat tips:
TOOLS
The “tools” section would be a good place to discuss things like free or cheap graphics and audio tools to use in web work.
(http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ A full-featured sound editor and recorder
“Gimp” is a pretty good low-end competitor to Photoshop, or at least Photoshop Elements (http://www.gimp.org/features/ ). I think it even handles layers.
One of the best Swiss Army Knife graphics utilities I’ve found is “SnagIt,” http://www.download.com/Snagit/3000-2192_4-10004813.html
accessible videos for the web; See Academic Tehnology
http://www.csulb.edu/lats/itss/design/videoflash.html
