Conference notes

Higher Education Web Symposium 2008
July 15–16, Philadelphia, PA

Content

Combined feeds using Yahoo! Pipes
Creating an aggregated Wesleyan University RSS feed
How to Make a Facebook Page
Focuses on customizing the sidebar using Static FBML
Getting started with RSS
Information about using feeds

CSS

Adjacent-sibling
Form validation warnings
Curved Corners
Promotions boxes
Graphic EQ
table element
Flickr-style outlines using CSS image maps
Highlighting areas of an element on hover to call out notes or other functionality
Forms with button instead of input
Better form buttons, more styling options
Search Feedback UI
Suggestion for encouraging Web Search user feedback
The CSS Box Model
An explanation of margins and padding

Flash

Slideshow
Campus beauty gallery with full screen feature
Standard YouTube video embedding
Technique for embedding a regluar YouTube video
High quality YouTube video
Technique for embedding higher quality YouTube video
Chart objects
Data reporting using XML/SWF Charts
Josef Albers color task
With Mariah Klaneski

Hardware

Backing up your Mac
Using SuperDuper! and a FireWire drive

JavaScript

Bookmarks
Ma.gnolia, JavaScript and JSON
Cookies
Using cookies to display an alert on the first visit
Map 1, Map 2
Google Maps API, two examples
Show/hide
jQuery
Twitter
Embedding Twitter content via JSON

Markup

Doctypes
HTML and XHTML page wrappers
Events
Example for University Calendar
Feeds
Adding feeds for channels defined in Channel Maker
iframes
Accessible includes
Structure
Markup recommendation for public pages

Server-side

Main to sub-directory redirection with a FrontPage workaround
Redirecting a main URL to a sub-directory using .htaccess
Time-based redirection with FrontPage Server Extensions
Changing page content using .htaccess