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. Please note student organizations are now maintained via OrgSync; neither Freestyle nor HTML are required.
What's New With Freestyle?
Coming in Spring 2011, you may notice some changes to the Freestyle web interface. To quickly bring yourself up-to-speed regarding these updates, please reference the What's New With Freestyle? quick-start guide.
Web Tutorials
The following Web Tutorials provide a step-by-step reference for many common tasks in Freestyle, though they may also be used as a quick refresher for seasoned users.
- Freestyle Terminology and Interface Reference - Terms used throughout Freestyle
- Freestyle Walkthroughs - Step-by-step guides to many common Freestyle tasks
Podcast Tutorials
The Podcast Tutorials present common Freestyle tasks through a series of short multimedia presentations. View individually on a per-topic basis or view the entire series for a more complete Freestyle learning experience.
Beginner - new for 2.0!
- What's New in Freestyle 2 [mov] - 3min, 10MB
- Introduction to the Freestyle Interface [mov] - 2 min, 4MB
- Finding Content [mov] - 2.5min, 8MB
- Editing Content [mov] - 3min, 6.5MB
- Desks, Workflows, and Publishing [mov] - 4.5min, 11MB
- Creating Content [mov] - 2min, 5MB
- Media [mov] - 4min, 11MB
- Adding Links [mov] - 6min, 15MB
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]
- 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] (not yet updated for Freestyle 2.0)
Course Catalog (not yet updated for Freestyle 2.0)
- Catalog Editing Step-by-Step
- Catalog Editor Walkthrough [mov]
- Catalog Reviewer Walkthough [mov]
- Registrar Course Editing Instructions [pdf]
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