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How to

Help topics and tutorials for Web Maintainers. If there is a topic you would like added here contact websupport@canterbury.ac.nz.

Dreamweaver

• Recommended version of Dreamweaver
• Get access to my website
• Setting up (mapping) to your site in Dreamweaver

Editing and developing your web pages

• Understand and edit SSI includes (files)
• Insert macrons to web pages
• Text
• Lists
• Make a link (within a site, to another site, email link, anchor/jump link
• Create and format tables
• Forms, surveys and questionaires

Files and folders

• Creating new files and folders
• Find the size of a file
• Name files and folders

Documents (PDF, Word etc)

• Manage documents downloaded from your site
• Name documents to be downloaded
• Link to documents

Images and multi-media

• Preparing images for the web
• Add an image (and alternate text) to a page
• Wrapping text around an image
• Add a caption to an image
• Page drop fixes
• Create an image slideshow

• Using video/multi-media files on your website

News and features

• Format the news/features/announcements area of your home page

Website management

• Clean up files and folders
• Improve search engine ranking
• Broken links check
• Getting statistics on your site
• Encrypt email addresses
• Understanding messages when uploading files