Renaming the Blog Tab

By Novakovich on November 14, 2009 10:52 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

Removing the Blog Tab

Step 1:  Select Design/Templates.
Step 2:  Under Template Modules, select Navigation.


             Line #3 of text includes the Blog URL information and names the tab.


Step 3:  Change the name "Blog" to "Forum", "News", or whatever you would like.
Step 4:  Save changes and Publish.
 



See my example Blog.

Removing the Blog Tab

By Novakovich on November 14, 2009 10:51 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

Removing the Blog Tab

Step 1:  Select Design/Templates.
Step 2:  Under Template Modules, select Navigation.
Step 3:  Delete line #3 of text , the line that  includes the Blog url information.
Step 4:  Save changes.
Step 5:  Publish.
 



See my example Blog.

Adding the Banner Heading to Every Page

By Novakovich on November 14, 2009 10:24 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks
In the template for "Header", towards the bottom, there is this snippet of code:

<mt:If name="main_index">
    <div id="homepage-image">&nbsp;</div>
</mt:If>

Just remove the surrounding mt:If tags, so instead of those three lines, you just have one:
    <div id="homepage-image">&nbsp;</div>


Republish the site and that should do it.

Changing the Font Styles and Color Background

By Novakovich on November 14, 2009 10:22 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks
This is the basic patter to add to Design/Template/Stylesheet. You can substitute any font style. If the font has more than one word, put single quotations around the style name. Make sure to add a comma and serif or sans serif, so that the program can choose a suitable default font style if yours cannot be read by the browser.

  body {
color: #fff;
}

#content {
background-color: black;
font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei',sans-serif;
}

#container-inner {
background-color: black;
font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', sans-serif;
}

h1#header-name
{
font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei',sans-serif;
}
a
{
font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', sans-serif;
}

Changing the Color of the Blog Background

By Novakovich on November 14, 2009 10:20 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks
The following code is for a black background:




body {

 

color: #fff;

 

}

 

#content {

 

background-color: black;

 

}

 

#container-inner {

 

background-color: black;

 

}
 

Eliminating the Sidebar and Expanding the Content Container

By Novakovich on November 14, 2009 10:19 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks
Here are the instructions for making the whole blog sidebar-less and make the content take up the entire page as well.

1) Design > Template > Header

replace code (it is at the bottom of the template):

<div id="alpha">

with:

<div id="alpha" class="alpha-wide">


2) Design > Template > Sidebar

Remove all code from this template.

3) Design > Template > Stylesheet

add this:

.alpha-wide {
width:940px !important;
}



That's it.

Recent News

By Novakovich on August 26, 2009 7:40 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks
Please see Erin Long's generous comments about our website!

How to Remove the Blog Tab

By Novakovich on June 24, 2009 8:22 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

Removing the Blog Tab

Step 1:  Select Design/Templates.
Step 2:  Under Template Modules, select Navigation.
Step 3:  Delete the line of text that includes the Blog url information.
Step 4:  Save changes.
Step 5:  Publish.
 



See my example Blog.

Embedding a Powerpoint

By Novakovich on June 4, 2009 9:10 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks
Open a Slideshare Account.
Upload Powerpoint.
Copy embed code.

Username: English 202c
Password: screencast

Hello Maggie and Nick,

I don't like to give people extra work, but I would prefer the embed option rather than linking and downloading. Could you guys do this? I know it's extra work. You can keep the early part about narration and such. Just ask the user to open a free account with Slideshare, upload, ppt, copy the embed code and paste in the html code.
Ethics

Embedding Jingcast: Trial Part 4

By Novakovich on June 3, 2009 9:39 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks
 
Here is the code that I use to embed directly into my pages/blogs. The pieces in magenta are the links to the file that I am embedding (in this example blogs.mov). What your students will have to do is go to work.psu.edu, click "manage pass files (pass explorer) on the left, double click into their www folder, and upload the file their Jing file. Then they put the path to the file below like I have in magenta.



<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" scale="tofit" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" height="360" width="640">
<param name="qtsrc" value="rtsp://www.personal.psu.edu/elc134/blogs.mov" />
<param name="SRC" value="www.personal.psu.edu/elc134/blogs.mov" />
<param name="AUTOPLAY" value="false" />
<param name="CONTROLLER" value="true" />
<embed src="http://www.personal.psu.edu/elc134/blogs.mov" qtsrc="http://www.personal.psu.edu/elc134/blogs.mov" scale="tofit" autoplay="false" controller="true" href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime" height="360" width="640">
</object><br /><br />
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