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Creating a professional website II

Mutsumi Ogawa - mogawa@essex.ac.ukLG 400 – wk11

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General Information

Course homepage http://courses.essex.ac.uk/lg/lg400 Updated after session runs

Email: mogawa@essex.ac.uk

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Introduction

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.

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

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Inserting Images5

Changing Fonts & Background Colour

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Inserting embedded objects (sound, video)

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HyperlinkOR 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)

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.

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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’

Inserting embedded objects (sound, video)

Using other programmes

Documentation for the privatewww webserver SharePoint / Frontpage

Web authoring guides

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

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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

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HO HO HO! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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and a Happy New Year 2013!