Transcript Chapter 7 - Marion County Public Schools

Chapter 7
Managing a Web Server and Files
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Perform website maintenance
Publish a website and transfer files
Check files out and in
Cloak files
Import and export a site definition
Evaluate web content for legal use
Present a website to a client
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Managing a Web Server and Files
• Before publishing a site:
– Test it to make sure the content is
accurate and up to date
– Use the Link Checker panel to check for
broken links and orphaned files
– View the web pages in at least two
different browsers
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Managing a Web Server and Files
Tools You’ll Use
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Perform Website Maintenance
• You should perform maintenance
tasks frequently to make sure your
website operates smoothly and
remains “clean”.
• You should run website maintenance
tasks periodically to make sure the
website is always error-free.
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Perform Website Maintenance
• You can use the Assets panel to
check the lists of images and colors
in your website.
• You should evaluate any nonwebsafe colors that could cause
contrast problems.
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Perform Website Maintenance
Several colors are listed
as non-websafe
Assets displaying websafe and non-websafe colors
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Perform Website Maintenance
• You can use the Link Checker to
make sure all internal links are
working.
• You can use the Reports command to
generate website maintenance
reports.
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Perform Website Maintenance
Report on list arrow
Scope of report choices
Reports dialog box
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Perform Website Maintenance
• Design Notes are separate files in a
website that contain additional
information about a page or graphic
file.
• When Dreamweaver searches
through code to look for errors it is
called validating markups.
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Perform Website Maintenance
• You should test your website using
many different types and versions of
browsers, platforms, and screen
resolutions.
• The Adobe BrowserLab is a useful
tool for cross-browser and cross
platform compatibility.
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Publish a Website and Transfer Files
• A web server is a computer with
software that enables it to host
websites and is connected to the
Internet with and IP address.
• You can specify remote settings and
define the site root folder when you
first create a site.
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Publish a Website and Transfer Files
Servers tab
Add new Server
button
Accessing the server settings in the Site Setup dialog box
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Publish a Website and Transfer Files
• Dreamweaver CS5 allows you to set
up multiple servers.
• The Secure FTP (SFTP) allows you
to encrypt file transfers.
• Once you set up a remote server, you
can view the folder in the Files panel.
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Publish a Website and Transfer Files
User login and
password to
access remote
server
Server name
Connection
method
FTP site location
Folder on FTP
site where site
will be published
Viewing remote server settings in the Add New Server dialog box
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Publish a Website and Transfer Files
• Once a remote site is set up, you will
need to upload files from the local
version of your site to the remote
host.
• You can upload all dependent files
(such as graphics) for a selected
page.
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Publish a Website and Transfer Files
• Files that you have developed for a
website can be downloaded or
transferred from a remote site to a
local site.
• The Synchronize command
compares the dates of the saved files
and transfers only copies of files that
have changed.
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Publish a Website and Transfer Files
Instructs
Dreamweaver
to synchronize
all files
in the site
Synchronize Files dialog box
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Check Files Out and In
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When you use Dreamweaver’s Check
Out feature it ensures that team
members cannot overwrite each other’s
pages.
If you use the Check Out feature with a
document, it is important to use the
Check In feature when you are finished.
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Check Files Out and In
Check Out File(s) button
Check In button
Check Out File(s) and Check In buttons on the Files panel toolbar
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Check Files Out and In
• To use the Check Out feature, you
must enable it.
• The Subversion control is a remote
SVN (Apache Subversion) repository
that contains historical versions of
website files.
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Cloak Files
• When you cloak a file you are
marking it for exclusion from being
uploaded.
• You can cloak folders as well as files.
• You can cloak particular types of files,
such as .jpgs.
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Cloak Files
Red slashes
indicate folder
and files in it are
cloaked
Panel options
button
Cloaked assets folder in the Files panel
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Import and Export a Site Definition
• The site definition for a website
contains important information about
the site, including its URL and
preferences.
• The Export command creates a file
with an .ste file extension.
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Import and Export a Site Definition
You can import
the site
definition file in
order for you to
be able to
access the site.
Import Site dialog box
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Evaluate Web Content for Legal Use
• Intellectual property is a product
resulting from human creativity.
• Copyright protects the particular and
tangible expression of an idea, not
the idea itself.
• Generally, copyright lasts for the life
of the author plus 70 years.
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Evaluate Web Content for Legal Use
• Trademarks protects an image,
word, or slogan.
• Symbol, or design used to identify
goods or services.
• Copyright attaches to work as soon
as you create it; you do not have to
register it with the U.S. Copyright
Office.
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Evaluate Web Content for Legal Use
• A copyright owner’s rights:
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Reproduction
Creation of derivative works
Distribution to the public
Public performance
Public display
Public performance by audio transmissions
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Evaluate Web Content for Legal Use
• Fair use allows limited use of
copyright-protected work.
• Work that is no longer protected by
copyright is in the public domain.
• A licensing agreement is the
permission given by a copyright
holder to use their work.
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Evaluate Web Content for Legal Use
An example of a
website’s “term of
use” page
The Library of Congress website legal page
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Evaluate Web Content for Legal Use
• The permission process is specific to
what you want to use.
• The request should contain:
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Your full name and address
A description of your intended use
A signature line for the copyright holder
A target date for when you would like a
response from the copyright holder
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Evaluate Web Content for Legal Use
• When you post or publish a copyright,
you are stating that the work is
claimed by you.
• You must give text excerpts in a
document proper attributions by
including references.
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Evaluate Web Content for Legal Use
• Guidelines for references must
include:
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The author’s name
The date of publication
The title of the document
The title of complete work or website
The URL
The date of access
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Evaluate Web Content for Legal Use
• Guidelines for citations of images
must include:
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Name of the researching organization
Date of publication
Caption or description
Brief explanation of data type
Project name and retrieval information
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Present a Website to a Client
Adobe Flash Catalyst
is a high-fidelity
wireframe that is
interactive and
multidimensional to
be used in a client
presentation.
Adobe Flash Catalyst information on the Adobe website
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Present a Website to a Client
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Base Camp is a web-based project
collaboration tool that can be used
when developing a website for a client.
You can present the final project by
publishing the site to a server or by
creating a PDF file of the site and
sending it to the client.
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