The web, browsers, and web authoring
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General introduction to the web
- What is a URL?
- What is HTTP?
- What are cookies?
- What are plug-ins?
- What is a PDF file?
- On the web, what are frames, and how do I navigate with them?
- What are secure web sites and SSL certificates?
- What are Server Side Includes, and can I use them at IU?
Web browsers
- What is a browser, and what browsers are available?
- What is Firefox, and where can I get it?
- What is Microsoft Internet Explorer, and where can I get it?
- What is Safari?
- For Mac OS X, what web browsers are available?
- What is Mozilla?
- At IUB or IUPUI, what information will I need to configure my Internet software?
Web authoring
- About HTML
- What is CSS?
- How can I submit the URL of my web page to search engines?
- How do I limit access to my World Wide Web pages?
- What is the difference between an absolute and a relative URL?
- What are the 216 web browser-safe colors?
- For my web page, how can I automatically redirect visitors to a different URL?
- How can I protect my web pages from email address harvesting?
- At IU, where can I get help creating a web page?
- At IU, how can I receive email about my central server web page?
Personal web pages at IU
- At IU, what is Mypage, and how can I publish a web page there?
- At IU, what is the URL for my web page?
- At IU, what should I know about putting information about myself on my personal web page?
- What is IU policy on using information technology resources for commercial advertisement?
- At IU, how do I add or remove a link from the Directory of Personal Home Pages to my web page?
- At IU, how do I remove my personal web page?
Departmental/student organization web pages at IU
- What is Webserve?
- At IU, who can have an account on Webserve, and how do I get one?
- At IU, what is the difference between Webserve and Mercury?
- At IUB, how can I get my web page linked from the university web site?
- At IUB, where can faculty and instructors find help developing web-based instructional resources?
- What is Transform?
- At IU, how can I receive email about my central server web page?
- For the university web server (Webserve), what address should I use when making an SSH or SFTP connection to my account?
- At IU, how can my department sell items through its web site?
- At IU, what is the URL for my web page?
- At IU, what is a virtual hostname, and how can I get one for my web site?
Resources on the web
- Where can I find IUB computing support services on the web?
- Where can I find online information about the IUB Libraries?
- How can I find information about IT Training & Education STEPS workshops and online training?
- Where can I find US government information online?
Troubleshooting
- How can I view a web page that my browser has difficulty displaying?
- At IU, why do I get a "Certificate Name" error message when I attempt to view my secure web page?
- Why am I still seeing errors on my web page even though I have corrected them?
- Why does my web page look different when I use different computers and web browsers?
- When I try to look at my web page, what does it mean when I receive a "500" or "Internal Server" error?
- At IU, what should I do if people get an error message when they try to view my web page?
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Last modified on January 05, 2010.
Last modified on January 05, 2010.
