Tech Tips for BHSEC Students

Dreamweaver is your classic WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get). A WYSIWYG user does not need to know how code works because s/he can simply use the program’s interface (buttons and tools) to do all the formatting. A WYSIWYG is like making web pages with MS Word. In an editor, you work only with the code. The best way [...]

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The first “web basic” I want to impart is to make backups of all your work! For this you’ll need an FTP client.
FireFTP is, IMHO, the simplest ftp client. It works on osx/win/linux. It’s opensource (”free as in beer and free as in speech”). It’s a firefox addon, so you’ll need firefox. Go ahead and [...]

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A graphical reminder to help faculty remember how to login after we change the username to login as ourselves. Part of the problem is they don’t remember their username, which is their first initial and whole last name. This little graphic I made to print up and tape to the front of their computers esp [...]

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