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Creating a professional website II

Creating a professional website II. Mutsumi Ogawa - mogawa @essex.ac.uk. LG 400 – wk11. General Information. 2. Course homepage http://courses.essex.ac.uk/lg/lg400 Updated after session runs Email: mogawa@essex.ac.uk. Introduction. 3.

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Creating a professional website II

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  1. Creating a professional website II Mutsumi Ogawa - mogawa@essex.ac.uk LG 400 – wk11

  2. General Information 2 • Course homepage • http://courses.essex.ac.uk/lg/lg400 • Updated after session runs • Email: mogawa@essex.ac.uk

  3. Introduction 3 • Making your work available online opens it up to the rest of the academic and non-academic world. • This session focuses on exploring more advanced as well as alternative ways of building and maintaining your professional information online.

  4. Outline • Topics of this week’s session will include: • Inserting images • Changing the font and background colour of your page • Inserting an embedded object (video, other objects) • Activating the developer tab • Academic social networking sites • Hosting your website outside the university’s server

  5. Inserting Images

  6. Changing Fonts & Background Colour

  7. Inserting embedded objects (sound, video) • Hyperlink OR • Insert > Object > Create from file • Developer > Controls > Legacy tools >More tools *These two options require bigger memory size (contact: ISS Systems Group Queries sgq@essex.ac.uk)

  8. Developer tab • Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Word Options. • Click Popular, and then select the Show Developer tab in the Ribbon check box.

  9. Inserting embedded objects (sound, video) • Developer > Controls > Legacy tools >More tools > Windows Media Player • Properties > (Custom) > Choose a file*Autostart • When you edit a video or sound file, turn on ‘Design Mode’

  10. Using other programmes • Documentation for the privatewww webserver • SharePoint / Frontpage • Web authoring guides

  11. Hosting your website outside the uni server If you are close to completion, or in need for more hosting space for materials, you might wish to look for alternative places to host your website. Some of most easy to set up and user friendly include: • Google sites • Wordpress.com • Limedomains.com • Blogger.com • Wikidot.com

  12. Academic Social Networking sites • Academic social networking sites are a recent trent following popular social networking sites like Facebook, Bebo or MySpace. Some of the most well-known are: • academia.edu • Mendeley.com • Academici.com

  13. HO HO HO! MERRY CHRISTMAS! and a Happy New Year 2013!

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