Department of Engineering

World Wide Web subject index

Contents

• Introductions
• Browsers - Configuring
• Basic Page Production - Checking
• Advanced Page Production - Graphics
• Rules and Guidelines
• Publishing - Controlling access - Serving Information at CUED
• Miscellaneous - Unofficial Logs - Glossary

Introductions

• The Web in general
• Places to see
• CUED Frequently Asked Questions

Browsers

• Choices
• Configuring (setting up a newsreader, etc)
  • Proxy Server
  • Cookies
  • Configuring Mozilla/Firefox on the Teaching System
  • Unicode and Multilingual Web Browsers (useful if you're reading documents in various languages)
  • The World Wide Web and speed

Basic Page Production

• CUED's Producing material for the WWW page
• General Introductions
• Style Guides and Templates
• HTML
• Web housestyle
• E-mail addresses on web pages
• Checking
  • CUED Link Checker
  • CUED HTML checker
• What editors to use
• Converting old non-WWW documents

Advanced Page Production

• CUED's Advanced WWW page production page
• Cascading Style Sheets
• HTML4 and stylesheets
• DHTML (JavaScript)
• CGI, perl and Forms
• HTML: block and in-line elements
• Page counters
• Scripting - PHP, Java, Javascript, ASP
• XML
• Databases
• VRML
• Maths
• META lines in HTML files
• Graphics
  • Videos
  • Producing animated gifs with GIMP
• Producing Wikis, Chatrooms, and Calendars
• GLO Maker
• Web Mashups (draft)

Rules and Guidelines

• CUED WWW House Style
• Worldwide Web - Departmental Guidelines
• World Wide Web Security FAQ
• Data Protection Act - Advice for UCS Users
• University of Cambridge Web Accessibility Policy

Publishing

• Where to put files
• Controlling access
  • by PIN
  • by RAVEN
  • by password
  • by domain
• Monitoring and increasing access
• Creating and Maintaining a CUED WWW site
• Serving Information at CUED
  • Group web pages on www-g.eng.cam.ac.uk
  • Staff profile pages on www.eng.cam.ac.uk
  • Unofficial pages on www2.eng.cam.ac.uk
• Creating your first World Wide Web page from a PC or Mac

Miscellaneous

• Tips for CUED admin staff using the World Wide Web
• Unofficial Logs
• Producing HTML and PDF files with LaTeX
• Glossary of Internet Terminology