Bryn Mawr College

Creating videos for your department or office website or blog? Get started with these resources: Video Editing category in the TECH Bar Video tips from MakeUseOf The College's web server is not designed to support streaming video, so Web Services generally recommends uploading to a third party site such as YouTube or Viddler. If you need help uploading to the College's official accounts, please contact help@brynmawr.edu .  

Have an important PDF or Office document you're posting to the website or a blog? Want to make sure people can find it? Many aspects of Google's search algorithm are a trade secret, but we do know some things it definitely looks for, and we need to take these things into account when we put files on the web. Check the following items before uploading a new document, or double check them and re-upload your document (with the same file name!) if you notice that your document is showing up in search results with a not-so-informative or potentially confusing title (e.g. we'd ... Read more»

NOTE: These instructions are for connecting to the test server only. You will be unable to connect the test server unless you are working on a website in development and have been given access by Web Services. If you need access to the test server, please contact the Help Desk. So you want to change something on your website? Here’s how to access Contribute and make a connection to your page. Open Contribute by going to Start->All Programs in Windows (or start it from the Finder or the Dock on your Mac ... Read more»

Note: We will be communicating with all Contribute users regarding details of the upgrade process via e-mail, the IS Blog, and so forth. This TECH Bar documentation simply lists the new features that will be available once the upgrade is complete. Complete list of new features in Adobe's documentation The new features most likely to be of use to web stewards are: Superscript and Subscript support: Great for footnotes or pages with equations. These may be found in the formatting menu: Cross-browser Preview: You may now preview pages in multiple browsers before publishing. Available ... Read more»

So you want to change something on your website? Here’s how to access Contribute and make a connection to your page. Open Contribute by going to Start->All Programs in Windows (or start it from the Finder or the Dock on your Mac ) When Contribute opens, click "Website Connection" under "Create New" at this welcome screen: After you click ‘Create Connection,’ a dialogue box will appear. Click ‘Next’ to begin. ... Read more»

If your pages use the Bryn Mawr templates, you should always copy an existing page to create a new page using the same template. Otherwise you will get a blank white page without the Bryn Mawr logo or navigation. To create a new page... 1. In Contribute, navigate to a page in your site with the layout you'd like for your new page (for example, if you'd like a page with multiple columns, be sure to pick one like that). 2. Click the New button. 3. Select "Copy of Current Page" and enter a new title ... Read more»

Contribute Quick Start Guide Adobe Contribute is both a web browser and editor in one. Use the Contribute browser to view websites just as you would any other web browser. When used as an editor, Contribute enables you to easily update content. You can add new pages, edit text, and insert links and images, as well as import content from MS Office documents directly into your web pages (Windows only). Browse, edit, and publish documents Adobe Contribute lets you easily locate pages in your website, update them, and then publish your changes with the click of a button. To update your website using ... Read more»

Working with Images in Contribute Inserting an image from your computer 1. Place the cursor where you would like the image to appear. 2. Click the Image button, then select From My Computer (note: You may select an image you've already uploaded by selecting "From Website") 3. Browse to your image and click Select. Note: Contribute may decrease the image size if it is too large. If you get a message saying that the image cannot be inserted, please contact the ... Read more»

If you have uploaded a document (such as a PDF or Word document) via Contribute, you may need to update that document later. 1. Edit the document on your computer as usual, then save it with the same file name it currently has on the web. Important: If the file names do not match (including capital letters, underscores, etc), you won't overwrite the old version of the document, and people will still be able to find it via links or bookmarks, causing confusion! For example, if I uploaded Cakes.pdf last year, I should save this year's menu of cakes as Cakes.pdf as ... Read more»

What is a feed? Feeds (or, more accurately, RSS feeds), are used to syndicate online content. At Bryn Mawr we use feeds to pull content from one place that is being constantly updated.  The Bryn Mawr homepage is an example of this- the Events, News and other information come from blogs that are located elsewhere, and the feeds can appear anywhere else on the web, such as the news gateway.  Cntent is added once in the blog, and automatically updates wherever else the feed is used. This eliminates the need to manually post the same content in multiple ... Read more»