Web-Authoring Tools and Resources (Aurora)

NOTE: This solution is intended only for those who must maintain their department's or organization's website on Case's Aurora server.

Case ITS offers a complete toolkit to help you with building and maintaining your department's or organization's website.

This page offers links to the tool and resources you will most likely need for maintaining the website.

Forms

• Use this form to request a new account or change or add a maintainer

Application for Extra Space (for more than 100MB of space)

How Tos

• How to set up an account
• How to upload files for the first time
• How to edit current content
• How to turn over account maintainence

Reference

• Legal Obligations and Acceptable Use
• HTML Quick Cheat Sheet
• Case's Maintainer's FAQ

  HTML Help

• Introduction to HTML
• Intermediate HTML
• Here's Wilbur!
• The Bare Bones Guide to HTML
• Style Guide for Online Hypertext
• Composing HTML
• Case's HTML troubleshooting help

Tools

• Case's page for web developers. Contains useful information, templates, and other web-building tools.

Aurora Project Admin System Toolkit

• Includes tools for gathering statistics on web traffic on your site.

Page Template

• Intended to give all Case sites a consistent look; nevertheless, there is a wide choice of colors and complexity.

Generic Feedback System

• Allows developers to place a means of feedback to track users' experiences on the site.

AutoFooter

• Tool that places a consistent footer at the bootom of each page on the website. Can include address, phone number, date, etc.

AutoBase

• Base HREFs shortened links that go to pages within the same website. The links are relative rather than absolute.

AutoIndex

• Builds an index of plain text files within a directory.

Imagemaps

• Allows developers to break an image into different regions so that clicking on different parts of the image will take a user to different pages.

Using CGI on Aurora

• A robust scripting language that allows for user-based input on a webpage. Developers can run scripts on Aurora.