00-Notes On Advanced Topics

Advanced WYSIWYG

  • Typical table settings have border set to 0
  • Typical image settings have border set to 0 and horizontal and vertical space set to 5 to allow some a buffer of space around the image so that the text doesn’t touch the image

Friendly URLs

  • Only the Primary Account Administrator can create Friendly URLs on a FinalWeb domain.
  • Links do not have to be to pages within your domain. Friendly URLS can point to off-site pages.
  • Alternatively, shorten and customize links at bit.ly.

Embed code

  • Use Comment tags in Source view to hide code from view which you want to reuse
    • Before the code: <!--
    • After the code: -->
  • Paste embed code from various sites into the Source view.
  • Embed code typically contains several references to the display dimensions (width and height) of the content and can be manually “tweaked” to fit your site as long as you maintain the same ratio of the dimensions.

Google calendar

  • WELSTech BWTG Episode 077 from June 22, 2009 is on this topic.

Secure document libraries and dynamic pages

  • Permission can be granted to a specific secure document library category but not to a specific document.
  • Secure dynamic pages are viewable by anyone who logs into the site. No user permissions have to be set up for dynamic pages.

Audio

  • Audacity is free audio editing software available at audacity.sourceforge.net. The “LAME Encoder” plug-in is required to export audio files in MP3 format, the most common format for sharing audio files on the web.
  • View a quick demo of Audacity at bit.ly/fwaudacity.
  • Submit your podcast to iTunes at bit.ly/fwitunes.

Video

  • FinalWeb allows for upload and streaming of video in Windows Media (.wmv) format.
  • Many video hosting sites such as Vimeo.com and YouTube.com convert uploaded video to Flash format for playing in the browser instead of an external video player software. Flash video often can be embedded into your site. The video is hosted external to your site so it doesn’t consume your storage space, but it is potentially subject to the video host watermarks, etc.
  • Links to video creation tools are posed at bit.ly/fwextras.

Live Streaming

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Sub-Site Migration