Advanced Web Design
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21. My WYSIWYG program creates it's own css information as individual
files. Where can I put these css files? Will my web pages still
be W3C compliant?
Cascading style sheet files normally reside in a users css folder
or a master css folder (http://www.olc.edu/css/) managed by the
web-master.
If you have created additional Cascading style sheets, you can
either submit them to the webmaster, or locate them inside your
own directory and insert them into your index.php page like this:
04. <?php include '/www/metacss.html'; ?>
--. <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="my.css" />
05. </head>
22. I notice that some of the college web pages link to certain areas
of the phone database. What kind of links can I make to the
phone database and what are the options?
You can use a search string on the phone database to retrieve any
information based on one (1) of the four (4) categories:
lastname
firstname
title
phone
Remember that if you want to narrow your search to only one item,
you may have to provide alot of information in your link. Using
a search string of 605 on the category phone would most likely
get you every entry in the database. Here are four link
examples:
<a href="/phpdir/search.php?category=lastname&searchstring=Janis">
All with a last name of Janis</a>
<a href="/phpdir/search.php?category=firstname&searchstring=John">
Only people named John</a>
<a href="/phpdir/search.php?category=title&searchstring=Director">
All College Directors</a>
<a href="/phpdir/search.php?category=phone&searchstring=6021">
Only this phone number</a>
23. I notice that some of the college web pages link to certain areas
of the photos database. How can I do this?
The photos database is not as versatile as the phone database,
but it is still convenient to use. You can access the photos
database by volume or individual picture, but you have to know
the number of either one to access it. The format for linking
to a volume or a picture would look like these:
<a href="/phpoto/picture_list.php?album=10">Picnic</a>
<a href="/phpoto/picture_list.php?picture=508">Cake</a>
I have also created special redirect links for the staff pictures
that you can use as links based on the users email username. Ex:
<a href="/local_links/staff/cdelong">Cliff</a>
24. I have uploaded certain information into my public_html folder but
I don't want anyone to be able to access it. Is this possible?
I'm sure people will wonder why anyone would put sensitive data
into a public folder, and want this data locked, but this
scenario does happen quite frequently. There are two (2) ways to
lock this information, however only one (1) of these ways is
probably useful for the designer. The system way is to change
the protection bits (most likely a topic better discussed inside
a class). The apache web server way is with an .htaccess file.
Create a file called .htaccess in the folder you want protected.
The contents of the file should have only one (1) line that
contains:
deny from all
25. I have created an open (discussion board, news forum, blog, wiki)
that anyone can access. Is there a way that I can limit the
users who access this to only a few people, or just the college
centers?
You can create an .htaccess file in this directory to contain the
addresses of the users (or college centers) that you allow
access:
allow from 10.2.5
deny from all
(The example above would specify HeSapa addresses. For addresses)
(to other college centers please refer to the TSS NSA page at: )
(http://www.olc.edu/local_links/tss/tssnsa)
26. The users that I want to access my information are on the
Internet so I won't know what their addresses are. Can I
password protect my web-page information instead of using domain
or address names?
You can password protect your web-pages, using the .htaccess
file. Use the following information inside your .htaccess file
changing the username(s) and password location where specified:
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Text to describe your protected area."
AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/passwd/password
Require user doe jones smith
The password file can be located anywhere, however it should be
placed in a location where the public can not browse to it. The
location specified above is such a place, but can only be created
by the web-master. Passwords are created with "htpasswd".
27. Previously, I could drop documents into a folder and then create
an .htaccess file with AddDescription entries that would describe
these documents. With folder browsing shut off, is there still a
way that I can upload documents and have descriptions of them?
Can I do this without having to write an html page to do this?
The Apache FancyIndexing browsing that we used to use was not W3C
compliant, nor would it work with php. This produced quite a bit
of maintainance when any portal changes were made. The recently
installed php AutoIndex script software has been modified to be
XHTML 1.1 compliant, handles upload/download/rename/create users,
folders etc, and a built in function for document descriptions.
28. I have moved my page to some other directory, or another server.
How can I create a simple redirect so that my links aren't
broken?
This is easily accomplished using .htaccess to provide either 301
or 302 html redirects. A 302 html redirect means that your page
has temporarily moved to a new location. A 301 html redirect
means that your page has permanently moved to the new location.
Below are two (2) examples of what these entries look like:
redirect 301 /~user/some.html http://www.other.edu/~user/some.html
redirect 302 /~user/some.html http://www.other.edu/~user/some.html
Excluding the numeric redirect number, the default is 302.
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