University Web Training:Introduction to Web Editing

Web Services

Course Overview

1. Introduction to Web services provided by NUI Galway

2. NUI Galway’s Web policy and Web publishing template

3. Web content generation4. Using the Web5. Introduction to the Content

Management System (CMS)

1: Introduction to Web Services

1.1. Web Services management

1.2. Web Services team

1.3. Services provided• Web site hosting• DNS hosting• Web training• Automated broken link notification system - 404

email• Tools

404 email

• Sample page with broken image and link• http://www.nuigalway.ie/web/test.html

• 1.4. Add-ons provided• Labelled interactive campus map

– http://www.nuigalway.ie/campus_map/

• New and recently updated pages list– Example: http://www.nuigalway.ie/research/

• Random images• Printer friendly pages• RSS reader• Search facility• Online survey framework• Online tutorial booking system

2: Web policy & template

2.1. Web policy framework – Top level policy document– Web standards – mandatory

• Responsibilities• Template• Content

2.2. Web publishing template – Standard template

• Styles, images, and options

3: Web content generation

3.1. Web content generation guidelines– Authoritative– Secure– Accurate– Relevant– Current

3.2. Organising information – Sitemap / navigation– File structure

4: Using the Web

4.1. What are the Internet and the World Wide Web?

4.2. What is the Web made of?- Web Browser

- Servers

- Web pages

- Web sites

4.3. Navigating Web sites.

5: Introduction to the CMS

5.1. Introduction to the CMS – Create new Web pages– Change textual content on your Web pages– Upload and insert images into editable areas

of your Web pages– Manage your Web site’s side navigation bar– Edit Meta Tags (used by search engines for

page ranking)

5.2.Data Flow