How To's
The webmaster team has compiled his collection of tips and "how to's" to help you develop web pages for Columbia College Chicago. If you have any requests or suggestions, please share them with us.
Create a Forms to Email web page form.
Add an RSS feed to your web page.
Password protect a directory.
Add a Lightbox gallery to your web page.
Search a sub-section of the college web site (custom search).
Embed a Brightcove video player.
Create a Survey.
Faculty sites:
Other web "tricks" may require help from the Web Development group -- please contact us for assistance or consultation.
Create a Forms to Email web page form.
Need to have a protected web page send form data to an individual or group email address? This is the best way to keep spammers at bay!
Add an RSS feed to your web page.
A useful method for displaying content from blogs or the college Calendar of Events.
Password protect a directory.
Creating an .htaccess file allows you to control who can and cannot access specific directories.
Add a Lightbox gallery to your web page.
Automatically create thumbnails, re-size your images, and organize them
-- and use a snippet of code to quickly display a beautiful gallery of
images.
Search a sub-section of the college web site (custom search).
A custom search will allow visitors to quickly search a sub-set of the
college web site. For example, an area with a large number of documents
such as the Student Financial Services directory.
Embed a Brightcove video player.
Brightcove is an off-site video conversion and hosting service.
Columbia web developers can upload a Quicktime or AVI movie to the
Brightcove servers, where the file will be converted to Flash (FLV)
format. After adding some HTML code to a Collage page the video can be
viewed in a web browser; the video is streamed from the Brightcove
servers, which provides fast delivery.
Using iTunesU.iTunes U is a free service from Apple, Inc. which allows
Columbia College Chicago to have a public presence in iTunes. This
is an excellent way to share Video (MP4, .mov, videocast) or Audio
(MP3, podcast) with people all over the world, particularly content
that is longer than a few minutes.
Create a Survey.
For more information on web-based surveys please contact the Webmaster, or login to the Survey Admin page.
Faculty sites:
- Request an account
- Password protect a folder in your web site.
Other web "tricks" may require help from the Web Development group -- please contact us for assistance or consultation.
