Web Development Tutorials

Freestyle

The Freestyle tutorials are meant for those maintaining official Denison office or department websites only.  Student organizations, research collaborations, and personal websites are not edited via Freestyle; please see the General Web Development section below for links to general HTML tutorials, and the Publishing Web Pages FAQ for access information.

• Freestyle Walkthroughs
• Freestyle Terminology and Interface Reference [pdf] 

Enhanced Podcast Tutorials 

Beginner

• Creating a Story and Adding Text [mov] - 3 min, 7MB
• Adding Images [mov] - 3 min, 40MB
• Adding Links [mov] - 7.5 min, 33MB
• Publish and Delete Stories [mov] - 4.5 min, 31MB
  • Desks/Checking In-Out [mov]
  • Workflow Hierarchy Part 1 [mov]
  • Workflow Hierarchy Part 2 [mov]
    

Special Elements

• Elements and the Enhanced Paragraph [mov] - 5 min, 20MB
  
• Tabbed Boxes and Widgets [mov] - 6 min, 30MB
  
• Rotating Images [mov] - 3.5min, 30MB
• Expandible/FAQ Block [mov]
• QuickTime/Flash/SWF/MP3 [mov]
• Slideshow [mov]
• Photo Album [mov]

Special Story Types

• Bio Page [mov]
  
• Bio Index Page [mov]
• Photo Index Page [mov]
• Site Footer [mov]
• Side Navigation Menu [mov]
• Online Form [mov]

Course Catalog

• Catalog Editing Step-by-Step
• Catalog Editor Walkthrough [mov]
• Catalog Reviewer Walkthough [mov]
• Registrar Course Editing Instructions [pdf]
  

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General Web Development

HTML and XHTML Tutorials

• Getting started with HTML from the W3C
• HTML Tutorial from W3Schools
  
• XHTML Tutorial from W3Schools
• XHTML 1.0 Reference from W3Schools
• HTML 4.0 Entities from WDG

CSS Tutorials

• CSS Tutorial from W3Schools
• CSS2 Reference from W3Schools
• CSS/edge from Eric Meyer

Web Design & Usability

• Better website navigation from A List Apart
• Web Design Guidelines from the US Department of Health and Human Services

Code Validators

• HTML Validation Service from W3C
• CSS Validator from W3C
• Bobby 3.0 from CAST

Accessibility

• Goverment Regulations for Accessibility from Section 508
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines from W3C
• Web Accessibility Initiative from W3C
• WebXact from Watchfire

PHP and Perl

• PHP for the Absolute Beginner from Zend Developer Zone
• Perl.com from O'Reilly