Tutorials
January 7th, 2009
Online J-course
Wordpress tutorials
Security and Circumvention
Dreamweaver & FTP
Notes:
- Home page is called index.htm or index.html
Filenames: Use lowercase only; use letters and numbers only; can use - and _ (hyphens and underscores) but DO NOT use commas, question marks or other punctuation. Do NOT use spaces in filenames.
RIGHT: football.htm WRONG Football.htm
RIGHT: football-word-cup.htm WRONG football’s&^Wordcup.htm and football worldcup.htm
Other useful links:
- http://www.website-designs.com/ - good for free backgrounds, clipart and graphics - remember to respect the link-back requirement
- http://www.widgetbox.com/ - widgets
- http://www.htmlbasix.com/iframe.shtml - iframe code generator
- Iframe generator - alternative
- Drop down menu generator - http://www.ricocheting.com/js/drop.html
- Texty - http://www.texty.com
- Your classwork is stored at: http://www.ijs-global.com/class09/yourname
Soundslides - download from http://www.soundslides.com
Tutorials:
Audio
Audacity is a free sound editing program - get it here
Tutorials:
- Super-Fast Guide to Audio Editing (PDF) and Editing Audio With Audacity (PDF) by Mindy McAdams.
- Audio section of the J-Learning website.
- “Chapter 7: Digital Audio and Podcasting” from Journalism 2.0
- Handy Audacity Tutorials
- Tutorial to convert your WMA file to an MP3 file
- Tutorial to install the MP3 encoder (for you to export MP3 files from Audacity)
