The Originator
Web Site Design Newsletter

by George J. Rogers
Web Site Content Coordinator
The University of Texas
Health Science Center at Houston


Where Ideas become Reality, through Web Design.

Quote for The Day

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
by Herny J. Kaiser

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Links to Helpful Resources
Search Engines
Web Site Design
Graphic and Editorial Guide
HOOP
HIPAA Guidelines
FERPA Guidelines
Internet Use and Publishing Guidelines

Web Guidelines Handbook

On-Line Forms NEW
OAC Trouble Ticket
OAC Publishing Request

Web Site Design Training
Dreamweaver 3.0 - Online
Dreamweaver 4.0 - Online
Netscape Composer - Online

On-Line Magazines
Internet Week
Network Computing
eWeek
Internet World
Web Techniques
Web Hosting
Mobile Computing
Computer World
Securityfocus.com
DM Review
NEW

Links of Interest
KHOU TV - Houston Weather

Current Web Related Projects
HIPPA & FERPA Web Compliance
JSP Form Templates
Meta Tag Generator
Search Engine Tools - Verity
Web Authors Database
Web Author Survey
Web Group Management
Web Site User Survey
Web Statistical Tools
Web Training Materials
Web Guidelines Handbook

Web Site Design Questionnaire

Web Workshops
UT-Houston Web Coordinators
Graphic and Editorial Board
"Web Authors" Brown Bag Lunches

Web Discussions
Coming Soon

 

 

 

 


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OAC now has shared phone services
Web support services have been restored for OAC and will be operating from temporary office space in the GSBS building. Please use the following to contact me for web support:
Phone: 713-500-8208
Pager: 713-549-9283 (will return call as quick as possible)
E-mail: george.j.rogers@uth.tmc.edu

Feature Article - Article Archive

Content Management and How it Effects YOU, NEW
by George Rogers Posted 07/05/01
Web site content is growing at an astounding rate. Large organizations are having a hard time keeping the content current for lots of reasons. The following will describe in general the problems that most industries are having to date.

Content Management

Helpful Hints - Hints Archive

Images, by George Rogers Posted 07/16/01

Relevant images, animations and video clips can add significantly to the information content of a web page. They also add time to the authoring process and can increase the download time of web pages. Avoid large graphics whenever possible. Notify users of large graphics or multimedia files, and let the user choose whether or not to view these large files. It is common practice to put small thumbnail images on the web pages that are linked to the full size graphical image. Avoid using many small images. The way computers retrieve web documents requires that a separate connection to a web server be initiated for each image. The time involved in negotiating this connection may actually be longer than the time involved in retrieving the image itself.

Images can be scanned and saved in any of the graphics formats that can be read by Microsoft Photo Editor (the enterprise standard), Adobe Photoshop or another graphic editing tool. Images can be manipulated and converted to one of the formats (GIF or JPG) required by HTML. The JPG format is better for photographs, whereas the (GIF) format is better for graphs and charts.

It is preferable to reference (thus re-use) images within a web site instead of creating new ones. You can use a small set of navigational icons that appear on every page on your web site. To do this, place the commonly used images in a directory and point all references to these images to the same location. This is preferred over copying the common images to each sub-directory.

Being able to produce high quality, but low file-size images is critical to an efficient web page. Knowledge of image scanning, image processing and computer-based drawing and illustration is highly recommended for people who are doing any significant amount of work with web graphics.

Image File Format - *.gif, *.jpg
In general, use the GIF format for general graphics and JPG for photographs. JPGS produces larger compressed files of photographic content, whereas GIF does a better job with illustrations or images that contains large areas of the same color. Specialized images, photographs and illustrations that are specific to a particular web page must be converted to the appropriate web format (GIF or JPG). Hard copy images also can be scanned into the computer and saved to one of the two graphic formats.

Applications such as Microsoft Photo Editor and Adobe Photoshop can enhance, modify, reformat, re-color, and resize scanned images, but requires some experience with image processing.


Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to your web design and publishing questions.
Web Work Groups Starting
UT-Houston Web Coordinators have organized to work on subjects related to web authoring and publishing.

Graphic and Editorial Board have organized to work on policies and procedures related to U.T.H. graphics and name usage across all media's.


"Web Author" Brown Bag Lunches NEW
have been organized to provide lunch time training sessions held at the Dental Branch auditorium. Subjects covered will be web authoring tools, security, content development, graphics and other helpful subjects.
Daily Magazine Article Highlights - Article Archive
Weaving the partnership Web by David F. Carr
Clean Up, Flatten Out by Molly E. Holzschlag
Coping with COPPAby Robert Cannon
Viable or Liable? by Doug Isenberg
Published By: George J. Rogers, Day Phone: 713-500-5906, Evening Phone: 281-970-5831, Pager: 713-549-9283